Endangered Species

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.

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.

Two dams removed from Washington’s Elwha River were branded as salmon-restoration projects, but their watershed and scientific impacts are just as significant.

The “6th Extinction” card deck offers you a chance to lean about lost species — while playing poker.

Small, remnant populations might look like they’re doomed, but a new study says they could still deserve protection.

A new study finds that large, charismatic species get the majority of research into felid and canid species, possibly at the expense of others.

We understand that insects have both intrinsic value and instrumental value, but even that binary approach falls short.

A hatchery program puts freshwater mussel benefits on center stage.

A new study — the first of its kind — finds that the world’s conservation areas fail to protect hundreds of rare cactus species.