Conservation

African elephant populations have already fallen from 26 million to 350,000. Is extinction next?

The 196 nations that agreed to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets have just two years to meet auspicious conservation goals. How are we doing?

A new book offers insight into how our public lands were created — and what that means as we fight to protect them today and in the future.

Growing palm oil for use in food is already destroying habitats and causing extinctions. Using it for biofuel will make things even worse.

A new study finds that the often-feared big cats actually help keep crops and domesticated animals safe from other threats.

A Republican bill threatens to open up federal wilderness areas to mountain biking — and in the process threatens the 1964 Wilderness Act.

With his Holocene Project tattoos, artist J. Trip immortalizes endangered species on the bodies of wildlife-loving clients.

This month’s new books look at America’s disappearing bees, how religion can fight climate change, a pioneering woman scientist and a lot more.

Video: Poachers slaughtered 1,028 South African rhinos for their horns in 2017.

With just a few dozen left in the wild, things don’t look good for these critically endangered birds. But a captive-breeding program could help save them.