Conservation

The new field of conservation psychology offers valuable lessons for protecting the world’s wildlife — as well as ourselves.

The agency supports critical efforts to reduce wildlife trafficking, deforestation, land violence, and other threats around the world.

Other new research this month looked at snow leopards, wolves, wildlife crossings, newly discovered species, and … scorpion copulation?

Climate change, drought, and fires — all caused or worsened by human activity — are rewriting the future of ancient Sonoran saguaros.

These howling good books examine how we’ve persecuted wolves, how we’ve helped to restore them, and how they embody humanity’s relationship with nature.

The waters around the United States are home to many threatened species who need science-based conservation policies to save them from extinction. They won’t get that for the next four years.

This endangered invertebrate is harmless to humans — and rabbits. Saving it from extinction might even benefit both species.

Evidence from the pandemic found that bighorn sheep populations soared when people weren’t around to disturb them.

Park boundaries can’t protect against everything, and the trees that give the reserve its name remain threatened by climate change, fire, and an invasive fungus.

An alphabetical look at the environmental threats, priorities, and opportunities of the year ahead.