MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The International Whaling Commission (IWC) said on Monday it has issued an extinction alert for the endangered vaquita porpoise, whose population is estimated to have ...

World’s tiniest marine mammal – found only in the Gulf of California in Mexico – has only 10 individuals left, study finds The International Whaling Commission has issued the first ...

Sep. 18, 2023 — Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena are investigating the previously largely unknown biosynthetic pathway that leads to the formation of ...

Scientists believe we are currently in the middle of earth’s sixth mass extinction. Unlike the previous five, this one is human caused. Humans have made unrelenting changes to our planet causing ...

A photographer and a scientist hope that evocative photos will ignite a passion for protecting threatened animals. This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Geoff Bennett: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. It was the most comprehensive legislation for preserving species at risk of extinction and made the U.S. a global ...

Over 25 years, the red wolf went from being declared extinct in the wild to becoming hailed as an Endangered Species Act success story A family of red wolves, from right, 3-month-old pups ...

Jeff Akin had to bite his tongue. He was chatting with a neighbor about efforts to protect and grow the area’s red wolf population. The endangered wolves are equipped with bright orange radio ...

ALLIGATOR RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C. — Jeff Akin had to bite his tongue. He was chatting with a neighbor about efforts to protect and grow the area’s red wolf population. The ...

FILE PHOTO: A mother and calf vaquita, a critically endangered small tropical porpoise native to MexicoÕs Gulf of California, surface in the waters off San Felipe, Mexico in this handout picture ...