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A pair of orphaned cougar kittens are in a sanctuary after biologists were unable to get a female cougar (Puma concolor) to foster them. California Department of Fish and Wildlife...

Mitigation measures to maintain ponds in Nevada meadows help the survival of a desert frog species experiencing increasing impacts from climate change-driven droughts. “Drought is one the greatest threats to...

Desert tortoises suffered a “catastrophic decline” over two decades due to habitat degradation, extensive predation, disease and a lack of sufficient protection, according to a new study. But fencing to...

Biologists say an “unprecedented” number of migratory birds are dying in New Mexico, and they aren’t sure why. But they have an inkling it may have something to do with...

Biologists found two condor chicks alive amidst the charred area created by the Dolan Fire in Central California. The wildfire swept through the Ventana Wildlife Society’s California condor (Gymnogyps californianus)...

Shifting young Hawaiian monk seals from their whelping beaches to safer areas free of sharks and the threat of entanglement in marine debris may improve survival for the endangered marine...

Usually the web cams at the Ventana Wildlife Society’s condor sanctuary near Big Sur, California, capture the activities of endangered California condors (Gymnogyps californianus). But when the Dolan Fire, one...

Some native honeycreeper species may be able to survive avian malaria in Hawaii — but this resistance may mean they are allowing the disease to persist and pass on to...

While California condors often die from exposure to lead and other contaminants, those that survive may still experience sublethal stress impacts. Researchers found that raptors that fed on marine mammal...

California’s only wolf pack took the stay-at-home order to heart and produced a large litter of eight pups. DNA testing showed that there were at least four male gray wolf...