Area of Focus: Habitat Ecology

Climate change and past fire suppression had led to damaging wildfires

Researchers worry it points to underlying health problems in the struggling population

After being moved from the site of an oil spill, many turtles have returned

The Standing Rock Sioux worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce the endangered species to parts of the reservation

Captive breeding program is finding ways to improve the success of program for endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers

North Dakota biologists are trying to better understand this iconic bird

As boat traffic increases, it poses a greater threat

Foragers find more than mushrooms among the termite mounds

The discovery offers a new understanding of how cougar populations may be connected

The hippos descended from ones kept by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar