Conservation

Conservationists fear this will stimulate demand for poached animals while making it harder to enforce existing laws.

Will mountain goats be able to shed their thick winter coats in time for earlier warm seasons? The Mountain Goat Molt Project wants your help to find out.

In his new book, ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan chronicles the efforts of “plant midwives,” women who are working to restore edible plants and healing herbs.

Disease has struck the rare Asiatic lions of Gujarat, and other new threats have put their recovery in jeopardy. What will it take to save them?

From California to Maryland, dams are being removed to help fish, improve safety and boost recreation.

These easy policy changes can save protected species from being killed by cruel fishing practices without infringing on the rights of anglers.

A recent meeting by the Orca Recovery Task Force shows the massive political and economic lobbies that stand in the way of success.

In her new book Poached, journalist Rachel Love Nuwer travels into the heart of darkness that threatens elephants and many other species with extinction.

Wildfire expert and Arizona State University professor Stephen Pyne answers five burning questions.

Books coming out this month include a series of terrifying climate-change novellas and a look at the occupation of Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge.