1+ hour, 48+ min ago  (943+ words) Jenifer Chatfield, a high-ranking U. S. official whose family breeds wild animals for profit, will reportedly lead the U. S. delegation attending next week's meeting of CITES, the global wildlife treaty, in Geneva, Switzerland, multiple sources told Mongabay. Chatfield, who serves as the Department…...

46+ min ago  (341+ words) "Linked to their brain, thousands of pigment cells expand and contract on their skin." Some animals have camouflaging abilities that can seem too good to be true. One ocean conservation group has now shared footage of the broadclub cuttlefish, showcasing…...

15+ hour, 48+ min ago  (874+ words) Evidence from archaeology, archives and Indigenous knowledge shows moose have a much longer history in Colorado than modern reintroductions suggest. Long before wildlife officials moved moose into Colorado in the late 1970s, the animals may already have been part of the…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago  (723+ words) The Trump administration finalized a rollback of the Endangered Species Act on Friday, paving the way for drilling, mining and other human development across protected wildlife habitats. The move redefines "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, the landmark conservation law…...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago  (104+ words) Do you recognize this animal?" asks the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in a recent post sharing a trail-cam footage of an elusive African carnivore. The image is from Cross River National Park in Nigeria, and it shows a small carnivorous…...

4+ hour, 33+ min ago  (329+ words) The Humboldt penguin, an endemic bird of the Humboldt Current that runs along the coasts of Chile and Peru, is facing a rapid disappearance on the Peruvian coast. Researchers found empty nests, malnourished chicks, and practically abandoned colonies, where the…...

4+ hour, 48+ min ago  (350+ words) A Tasmanian echidna is so different from its mainland relatives that a University of Tasmania researcher initially wondered whether they might be separate species. Associate Professor Stewart Nicol from the School of Natural Sciences has published a new review challenging…...

3+ hour, 38+ min ago  (536+ words) The Times of India...

9+ hour, 49+ min ago  (868+ words) The water was dark and the swim would be more than a kilometre long. Somewhere out in that blackness, hippos surfaced and Nile crocodiles held still beneath the surface, each one capable of ending a lion in seconds. And yet,…...

4+ hour, 31+ min ago  (998+ words) It wouldn't make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their habitat. But that's what the…...