Endangered Species

The removal of the Edwards Dam on Maine’s Kennebec River helped river conservationists reimagine what’s possible.

The gigantic Ozark hellbender salamander is in trouble in the wild, but one zoo — and a hard-working team — is helping to boost its populations.

The ancestors of the newly described Heath’s tick date back to the time of the dinosaurs, but climate change and invasive species could soon wipe the tick out.

Healthy parasites are one sign of a healthy ecosystem, but there’s a lot more to them than that.

Alex Dehgan’s new book The Snow Leopard Project details successful strategies for conserving endangered wildlife — and helping people in the process.

2018 was the second-deadliest year on record for the threatened species — and humans are responsible.

Louisiana-based scientist Brandon Ballengée turns his research on imperiled ecosystems and species into transdisciplinary works of art.

Carcharhinus obsolerus (that’s Latin for “extinct”) swam in the waters of the western Pacific, but it hasn’t been seen in 80-plus years.

The Pantanal in South America is critical for fighting climate change and protecting endangered species. The race is on to protect it.

New photographs reveal that the National Butterfly Center in Texas is also home to an amazing array of 200 bee species — some of which exist nowhere else in the United States.