A newly discovered plant genus could be wiped out by dams and mining. Could giving it a name save it from extinction?

They tried to bury the report by releasing it on Black Friday, but the threats we face — and possible solutions we can take on — are still very real.

Protecting the planet from climate change and extinction depends on similarly protecting indigenous peoples, according to several new reports.

When tigers are reintroduced into an area where they once lived, people need to learn to live with them all over again.

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

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?

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

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

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

Researchers have identified a new tree species in Cameroon, but it only grew in a landscape that has now been destroyed by agriculture.