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Stories tagged “endangered species”
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Louisiana Black Bear's 600,000-Acre Comeback
Once reduced to a few hundred animals in shrinking patches of forest, the Louisiana black bear was removed from the endangered species list after 600,000 acres of its habitat were restored.
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China Releases 2 Finless Porpoises Into Yangtze
After a year of rewilding training, China released two critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoises back into the river their species has called home for 25 million years.
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120 Camera Traps Spot a Jaguar Crossing Two Countries
Panthera's camera-trap network recorded a male jaguar moving through the Bi-National Corridor linking Guatemala and Honduras — proof the fragile wildlife passage still works.
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11,000+ Giant Wētā Released in New Zealand Comeback
A 15-year captive-breeding programme has pulled New Zealand's wētāpunga — believed to be the world's heaviest insect — back from near-extinction to four wild generations.
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World's Largest Armadillo: Baby Filmed in Peru's Amazon
A camera trap in Peru's Loreto region caught a baby giant armadillo on film for what researchers call the first time — and the clip is now fueling a new wildlife law.
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18 Black-Footed Ferrets Released in Arizona Wild
North America's only native ferret species, once thought extinct, is expanding into new Arizona wilderness after a record year for captive breeding.
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Colorado's Wildlife Overpass Cuts Collisions 91%
North America's largest wildlife bridge turned a highway that killed an animal a day into one where drivers have hit just two in ten months.
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World's Largest Wildlife Crossing Opens Dec. 2
A concrete bridge over 10 lanes of California's 101 Freeway will finally let isolated mountain lions reach new mates — ending a decades-long genetic bottleneck.
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2 Olive Ridley Turtles Nest in California, a First
Warm water likely drew two tropical sea turtles far north of their usual range, producing the first documented sea turtle nests ever recorded on the U.S. West Coast.
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School Kids Help Blanding's Turtles Go From 55 to 300
A two-decade classroom headstart program at a Massachusetts wildlife refuge has grown one endangered turtle population more than fivefold.
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Great Lakes Piping Plovers Fledge Record 184 Chicks
Down to just 12 pairs in 1990, the endangered Great Lakes piping plover population fledged a record 184 chicks in 2026, thanks to zoos, volunteers, and decades of beach restoration.
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Rangers Spot Rare Night Parrot Chick in WA Desert
Indigenous rangers found a critically endangered night parrot chick hiding in spinifex grass in Australia's Great Sandy Desert — a first for many of them.
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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.