In a unique class hosted at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, early-career ecologists learned to apply emerging ...

Brazil’s Pantanal region has the highest jaguar density on Earth, drawing camera-toting visitors to its riverbanks. Despite ...

Wild video from the Memphis Zoo shows the moment an ape lunged at visitors, smashing a pane of glass in the enclosure.

Signs posted at the popular birding area urge visitors to report sightings of sick or dead wild birds and an online note says that some carcasses have not been able to be retrieved due to the ...

They may be the size of a Shetland pony and weigh up to 275kg (600lb) but pigmy hippos are very hard to spot in the wild. In ...

A new method that uses a simple air sample and the power of a dog’s nose makes it easy to check shipping containers for trafficked wildlife.

In early March, a trail camera located in Ujung Kulon National Park in western Indonesia captured a rare female Javan ...

There are only a few hundred black-footed ferrets still living in the Western United States. But scientists have been able to clone ferrets from genetic specimens collected in the 1980s. Here & Now’s ...

Wildlife trafficking is one of the world's most widespread illegal trades, contributing to biodiversity loss, organized crime, and public health risks. Once concentrated in physical markets, much of ...

A Sierra Nevada red fox, one of the rarest carnivores, was detected near Lake Tahoe for the first time in decades, offering ...

There’s no final battle scene in conservation. No singular villain to defeat, no final victory for the hero. Scientists know ...