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.

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 ...

The United States has one of the world's most powerful legal tools for protecting species at risk of extinction: the Endangered Species Act. Since it was passed by Congress in 1973 (on the heels of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Against the odds, world’s most endangered porpoise resists extinction in Mexico’s Gulf of California by: MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Posted: Jun 7, 2023 / 08:26 PM EDT ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Against all odds, the remaining handful of Mexico’s endangered vaquita porpoises are holding on in their only habitat in the Gulf of California, according to a new research ...

(CNN) — The International Whaling Commission released its first-ever extinction alert Monday to warn of the potential danger facing the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. Known to be the ...