Endangered species

Fishermen pull up their gillnet during a midwater pair trawl on the Gulf of Gascony sea, off the coast of France

Seaspiracy explored: Why are bottom trawling and bycatch bad news?

Tasmanian Devil

First Tasmanian devil babies born on mainland Australia in 3,000 years

The traditional 'Big 5' included animals such as tigers

The new 'Big 5' are the animals we need to protect, not harm, the most

Przewalski’s horses in Chernobyl.

Wildlife is thriving in Chernobyl 35 years after the nuclear explosion

Bison are being culled at the Grand Canyon

Why are 45,000 people signing up to kill a threatened species?

A small duiker captured in South Africa

First ever images of mysterious ‘Walter's duiker’ captured in the wild

Woolly Mammoth

How can cloning help conservationists save extinct species?

Thousands of Atlantic green sea turtles and Kemp's ridley sea turtles suffering from cold stun are laid out to recover

'Cold-stunned' sea turtles rescued from deadly Texas snowstorm

18/02/2021

Sonoran Desert toad

Conservationists plead with public to stop milking toads

10/02/2021

Baby green turtles makes their way to the sea on Tiwi Beach in Kenya

This baby boom in Kenya is helping to save an endangered species

06/02/2021

A tranquillised black rhino is suspended from a helicopter in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.

Hanging rhinos upside down is ‘vital’ for their conservation

02/02/2021

African elephants and giant tortoises among other species had a promising year in 2020.

Why 2020 was a promising year for wildlife around the globe

19/12/2020

The monarch butterfly species is in decline.

99% decline in butterflies since 1980s is 'horrific', say scientists

16/12/2020

Female and male lion together

Four lions test positive for coronavirus in Barcelona

08/12/2020

Can you identify the blurred animal in this image?

These pixelated images show the importance of wildlife conservation

04/12/2020

Keepers hope the pair can one day be released into the wild.

Ultra-rare rhino birth is caught on camera at Chester Zoo

16/11/2020

A giant tortoise seized by the Spanish police.

Traffickers are smuggling reptiles into Europe ‘under their clothes’

13/11/2020

A curious squirrel in Greenwich Park

How to spot wildlife in the city: Tips from an urban naturalist

02/11/2020

Green sea turtle eggs in sand hole at hatchery site

Decoy sea turtle eggs help track down illegal wildlife traffickers

27/10/2020

Giraffes numbers have been in rapid decline since the mid 1980s.

US imports are helping to drive the ‘silent extinction’ of giraffes

15/10/2020

Actors Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth help release Tasmanian Devils into the wild on mainland Australia.

Chris Hemsworth releases Tasmanian devils back into Australia

06/10/2020

Ruby Yelling

11-year-old swims 2600m in open water to raise money for WWF

22/09/2020

Female northern white rhinos Fatu, 19, right, and Najin, 30, left, the last two northern white rhinos on the planet, are fed some carrots by a ranger in their enclosure.

Scientists harvest eggs in last bid to save northern white rhinos

20/08/2020

There are 20 per cent more emperor penguin colonies in Antartica than previously thought.

New penguin colonies in Antarctica spotted by satellites in space

05/08/2020

Animal conservation is crucial this time

6 million euros allocated to save animals impacted by coronavirus

04/08/2020

Koalas in the wild

Infrared drones could save koalas from extinction

02/08/2020

The world’s most expensive fungus is at risk of going extinct

The world’s most expensive fungus is at risk of going extinct

19/07/2020

Drop in tourism leaves orphaned baby elephants without funding

Drop in tourism leaves orphaned baby elephants without funding

12/07/2020

Robot sloth hangs from trees to spy on endangered animals

Robot sloth hangs from trees to spy on endangered animals

07/07/2020

Koalas in New South Wales, Australia

Why koalas could be extinct by 2050

30/06/2020