Tag: extinction

Wildlife populations around the world have plummeted in the last 50 years, according to a report from the environmental organization WWF International. Looking at over 5,000 species, the group’s Living...

Scientists have made a step toward bringing the northern white rhino back from near extinction in the wild by producing new embryos in a lab. Since 2019, the BioRescue consortium,...

Until the mid-1800s, the Jamaican petrel was a common site on the shores of its namesake island. But then came invasive rats and mongooses, and the bird disappeared. Biologists have...

Mosquito control and captive breeding may be the only ways to save two Hawaiian bird species hurtling toward extinction on the island of Kauai. Only a few dozen ‘akikiki (Oreomystis...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Survey has proposed removing 23 extinct species from the federal Endangered Species Act. Many of these species, like a bird called the Kauai ʻakialoa (Akialoa stejnegeri),...

A year after Australia’s devastating 2019-2020 wildlife season ended, biologists are getting a grim picture of the impact on wildlife. Scientists say more than 500 species of plants and animals...

Over 70% of predicted animal and plant extinctions on land could be avoided by returning 30% of the world’s farmlands to nature. That’s the finding of a global roadmap published...

Efforts to conserve species have resulted in saving at least 48 mammals and birds from extinction since the early 1990s. The rates of extinction would have been three or four...

By reviewing past extinction patterns, researchers suggest that herbivores may be at the highest risk of extinction. The team studied more than 44,000 living and extinct species, specifically looking at...

Species like beavers and elephants that engineer and change the ecosystems around them could help save other species from extinction. A new study may be the first to quantify the...