Browsing: Animals

The giraffe population has been plummeting for 15 years. A 2015 survey found that fewer than 70,000 giraffes remained. Various…

The giant Galapagos Turtles were once on the brink of extinction with a population of only 15 left. After being bred for more than…

While chick culling of male chicks has been an animal welfare issue for years, the practice still continues in many…

The green turtle population is making a comeback after being deemed endangered. Even after the turtle hunt ban in 1968,…

Pollinators include birds, bees, bats, butterflies, and moths, all of which move pollen between flowers. They’re essential for creating healthy…

Large herbivores can naturally reduce the risk of wildfires, and the need for greater investment in firefighting resources, according to…

Every spring, Yosemite toads set out across the alpine meadows of the Sierra Nevada to find a mate. They have…

Australia is celebrating its rebounding Bandicoot population after the Eastern Barred Bandicoot was recently removed from its “extinct in the…

Much of the garbage thrown into the sea ends up reduced to tiny plastic particles. It collects in fish and…

The strange Matamata turtle has a lumpy shell and flat, triangular head like a round point shovel. There is an…

Protecting habitat works! The gorgeous Indigo-winged Parrot, which was first described by scientists in 1911, was thought to be extinct.…

The Frozen Ark Project aims to save the cell tissue of endangered animals so that if they are driven to…

The gentle pangolin has been under siege for decades, hunted because some believe, entirely without evidence, that its scales cure…

Twenty years ago, Conservationists gave Canada’s most endangered mammal, the Vancouver Island marmot, just one year until extinction. And then…