One of the main threats facing wildlife in the modern world is the breaking up of their habitats. Now, for the first time ever, researchers have been able to create a detailed picture of exactly how ...

Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a global milestone for biodiversity ...

(THE CONVERSATION) For decades, wildlife conservation policy has aimed to protect endangered species until there are enough individual animals alive that the species won’t go extinct. Then the ...

Their fur is so soft it almost led to their extinction, but otters’ recovery has been a boon to Pacific kelp forests, a key ...

BARCELONA, Spain — A quarter of the world’s wild-mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a comprehensive global survey released here Monday. The new assessment — which took 1,700 ...

Two new frog species have recently been discovered on the small, boulder-studded Dauan Island off Queensland. The frogs have ...

Bats sometimes get a bad rap, but these fascinating facts show how they pollinate plants, control insects and thrive in the ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN for short, is one of the most powerful wildlife organizations. It ...

The habitat fragmentation has now been successfully measured for over 4,000 species of land-dwelling mammals. Scientists discovered that species with more habitat fragmentation are at greater risk of ...