endangered species

Massive Plunge in Wildlife Expected by 2020

Massive Plunge in Wildlife Expected by 2020

By David Miller Every two years, the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London report on the health of the planet with an updated index of wildlife populations. This year, the numbers are especially bleak: Populations have already declined on average by 58 percent between 1970 and 2012. And unless we act quickly, […]

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    10,000 Critically Endangered Water Frogs Found Dead in Polluted Lake

    10,000 Critically Endangered Water Frogs Found Dead in Polluted Lake

    Peru’s National Forest and Wildlife Service, SERFOR, is investigating the deaths of hundreds of critically endangered Titicaca water frogs, whose bodies were found floating in the waters of Lake Titicaca, the only place in the world the species is found. Hundreds of the critically endangered Titicaca water frogs have been found floating on the surface […]

    8 Incredible Images Win Top Prize for ‘Illustrating the Rich Diversity of Life on Earth’

    8 Incredible Images Win Top Prize for ‘Illustrating the Rich Diversity of Life on Earth’

    By Clara Chaisson What on Earth have you photographed? This open-ended question, asked annually by the BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition, invites predictably diverse submissions: A leopard prowling around Mumbai’s Aarey Milk Colony, a Chilean volcano’s violent eruption, and the surprisingly peaceful relationship between a blackfish and a venomous Portuguese man o’ war, just to […]

    $15,000 Reward Offered Over Illegal Killing of Oregon Mother Wolf

    $15,000 Reward Offered Over Illegal Killing of Oregon Mother Wolf

    The Center for Biological Diversity added $10,000 on Friday to the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for shooting and killing an endangered wolf earlier this month in south-central Oregon. The wolf—a female known as OR-28, who recently had a pup—was found dead Oct. 6. The U.S. Fish and […]

    5 Endangered Species Dependent on Public Lands for Survival

    5 Endangered Species Dependent on Public Lands for Survival

    By Anna Kramer Think about our national parks. What comes to mind? Many of us think of spectacular landscapes, family adventures and, of course, incredible wildlife. These places we love are all of those things, but they are also places created to protect and restore wildlife. Our national parks, wildlife refuges and other wild public […]

    BP Abandons Drilling in the Great Australian Bight

    BP Abandons Drilling in the Great Australian Bight

    By Andy Rowell Conservationists and environmentalists in Australia are celebrating a major victory after the oil giant BP announced that it is abandoning its hugely controversial plans to drill for oil and gas in the Great Australian Bight. The area, which is off the country’s southern coast, is a marine park and home to one […]

    7 Bees Facing Extinction Added to Endangered Species List for First Time

    7 Bees Facing Extinction Added to Endangered Species List for First Time

    The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) has added seven bee species to the endangered species list, a first for bees. Native to Hawaii, these yellow-faced bees are facing extinction due to habitat loss, wildfires and invasive species. Cantankerous Yellow-faced Bee photographed in Hawai’i County, Hawaii.SteveMlodinow / Flickr The tiny, solitary bees were once abundant […]

    Russia Plans to Kill 250,000 Reindeer Amid Anthrax Fears

    Russia Plans to Kill 250,000 Reindeer Amid Anthrax Fears

    Officials in the Yamalo-Nenets region in Siberia are proposing the culling of a quarter-million reindeer by Christmas in order to minimize the possible spread of anthrax, the Siberian Times reported. Theso-called “zombie” anthrax outbreak in Siberia has been blamed on a thawed-out infected reindeer corpse that died several decades ago.Flickr The deadly problem began over […]