By Gloria Dickie From shorebirds flying between their Arctic breeding grounds and southerly foraging ranges to freshwater fish returning to native spawning streams, migratory animals are struggling.

A new study sheds light on how climate change and human development threaten mammal species living in isolated biodiversity hotspots known as "sky islands." Researchers placed camera traps throughout ...

Camera-trap image of a leopard chasing a porcupine in The Udzungwa mountains of Tanzania. Credit: Rasmus Havmøller and Francesco Rovero (CC-BY 4.0, creativecommons ...

Over the long and complicated course of evolutionary history, mammals independently turned towards water to make a home multiple times. While many of the warm-blooded animals that abandoned dry land ...

We’ll be attending the global platform for the conservation of migratory animals and their habitats – but what is it all ...

Two jaguars, caught with a camera trap survey, walk through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. (Daniel Rocha/UC Davis) From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living ...

WILDLIFE IS DISAPPEARING around the world, in the oceans and on land. The main cause on land is perhaps the most straightforward: Humans are taking over too much of the planet, erasing what was there ...

Mammals, birds and amphibians worldwide have lost on average 18% of their natural habitat range as a result of changes in land use and climate change, a new study has found. In a worst-case scenario ...