U.S.-based nonprofit Saving Nature has secured 865 acres in Colombia's Western Andes—an urgent step to protect one of the ...

Such illegal trade takes on a dangerous dimension because 25% of all species, both animals and plants, in Sri Lanka are endemic. The endemicity of certain classes of animals is proportionately higher ...

In Lake Victoria, a giant lake shared between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, over a quarter of endemic species, including countless cichlids, are either critically endangered or extinct. But for some ...

Colossal Biosciences has successfully bred three dire wolf pups, named Remus, Romulus, and Khaleesi, using ancient DNA, ...

The presence of the Balbina hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon led to the local extinction of several endemic fish species in the Uatumã River, according to research from the National ...

Two species of animals found nowhere in the world except for Vancouver Island were in the spotlight by a local rescue centre ...

Gough Island is home to two endemic species of land birds, the gallinule and the Gough rowettie, as well as to 12 endemic species of plants, while Inaccessible Island boasts two birds, eight plants ...

CHITRAL: The department of non-timber forest products has claimed initial success in its initiative for conserving more than 40 endemic plant species here. NTFP assistant director in Chitral Ajaz ...

"A handful of other islands have one endemic vertebrate species, including K'gari, Hinchinbrook and Magnetic Island, but no other island is known to have two until now," he said. "So, it's great ...