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Stories tagged “endangered species”
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6 to 25 Red Pandas Found Hiding in Nepal's Forests
Motion-triggered cameras placed high in the canopy confirmed a previously unstudied population of endangered red pandas in central Nepal.
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50 Endangered Fish Thrive in Oregon Farmer's Wetland
A barley farmer turned 70 acres into a marsh in 2021 - now endangered c'waam and koptu suckers are surviving to adulthood there.
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From 9 Left to 1,300 Released: Butterfly's Comeback
Fewer than 10 Poweshiek skipperlings remained in 2022. Zoo breeding programs have since released over 1,300 a year into restored Michigan prairies.
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Kazakhstan Welcomes 2nd Wild Horse Foal in 200 Years
A foal born to a mare named Umbra marks the second wild Przewalski's horse birth in Kazakhstan in two weeks — and the first in 200 years.
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6 Species Reclaim Australia's Outback After 100 Years
Bilbies, quolls and bandicoots are breeding in the wild for the first time in a century after a decade-long rewilding project in outback New South Wales.
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190-Year-Old DNA Confirms Nepal's Pangolin as a New Species
A pangolin skin collected in Nepal in 1836 and stored at London's Natural History Museum held the answer: the Himalayan pangolin is its own distinct species, hidden in plain sight for two centuries.
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10,000 Endangered Frogs Released Across California Mountains
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has returned over 10,000 mountain yellow-legged frogs to California this year — a 20-year conservation program hitting its highest single-season total.
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46 Lynx Later: Kittens Born in Washington's Kettle Range
Trail cameras caught Washington State's first lynx kittens in over 40 years — proof that the Colville Tribes' five-year effort to bring wápupxn home is working.
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Pakistan Protects 249 Miles of Indus River Dolphin Habitat
A new protected area in Punjab Province connects with an existing Sindh sanctuary, giving the world's second-rarest river dolphin its largest safe corridor yet.
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Florida's Loggerhead Turtles Set an All-Time Nesting Record
Loggerhead sea turtles have shattered nesting records on two Florida coastlines — 13,770 nests at Juno Beach mark a historic milestone for conservation.
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$200M Phoenix Project Will Save 100 Species From Extinction
Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund commit $200M to recover 100 species facing imminent extinction across 30 countries — with five years of sustained funding per species.
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12 Endangered Giraffes Get a New Home, Safe From Oil
Twelve Nubian giraffes have been moved 106km across Uganda to Ajai Wildlife Reserve, creating a "seed population" that gives the critically endangered subspecies a refuge away from oil development pressures.
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6 Orphaned Rhinos Released to Wild Now Have Own Calves
Six white rhinos rescued from poached mothers in KwaZulu-Natal have returned to the wild and each given birth to their own calves—a milestone nine years in the making.
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8 Crested Ibises Released in Japan After Decades of Extinction
Japan released eight crested ibises on Sado Island in a new milestone for one of Asia's great conservation stories — a species back from the brink.
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Synthetic Furs Are Helping Zambia's Leopards Bounce Back
A Panthera-led switch from real to synthetic leopard skins in traditional Zambian ceremonies could save over 1,000 leopards over the next decade, new research shows.
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Australia's Numbat Upgraded From Endangered After 40 Years
Australia's iconic numbat has been officially downlisted from Endangered to Near Threatened, with numbers rebounding from just 300 in the 1970s to around 3,000 today.
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West African Leopards Are Rebounding in Benin's Pendjari Park
Camera-trap data show leopard density climbing from 2017 to 2023 inside Benin's Pendjari National Park — a rare bright spot for one of the world's most endangered leopard populations.
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Make That 451: New Baby Boosts World's Rarest Wombat Population
Trail cameras have spotted a new joey riding in its mother's pouch at an Australian nature refuge, giving one of the world's rarest mammals a small but meaningful bump in numbers.
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U.S. Launches DNA Vault for Every Endangered Species in America
A new partnership between Colossal Biosciences and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will biobank cells, tissues and DNA from all 2,300+ Endangered Species Act-listed plants and animals.
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Eastern Barred Bandicoots Return to Mainland Australia After 35 Years
Up to 100 once-extinct-in-the-wild bandicoots were released on Phillip Island — the largest reintroduction of the species in Australia's history, and a 35-year comeback.
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Live White Abalone Spotted in Channel Islands for First Time in 5 Years
NOAA divers surveying California's Channel Islands found a single live white abalone — the first wild sighting in five years of one of the most endangered marine animals on Earth.
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Red-Ruffed Lemur Triplets Born at Georgia Park Boost Critically-Endangered Species
Taylor, Red and Marjorie — born to lemur parents Val and Doug — are the third straight litter for the pair, joining only 590 red-ruffed lemurs in captivity worldwide.
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23 Right Whale Calves Born in 2026 — Most in a Single Season Since 2009
NOAA documented 23 mom-calf pairs along the U.S. Southeast coast this season, with 20 returning mothers and birth intervals trending back toward the healthy 3–4 year range.