Birds are vanishing at an alarming rate. Since the Late Pleistocene, thousands of species have disappeared forever. Estimates ...

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Some residents along the Gulf Coast are creating habitat for the endangered birds on their properties, but development, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Sihek bird, an endangered animal who recently returned to the wild, has laid eggs on their new home at Palmyra Atoll, an island in the Pacific. The eggs laid mark the first wild ...

In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite global conservation goals and urgent policies aimed at protecting nature, ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

The released birds are the closest living relatives of the extinct Arabian ostrich. The flightless animals' return is part of ...

In this region, sightings of rare and endangered birds, including Indian Skimmers, have been reported by members of the ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or degradation, climate change, forest fires, deforestation, and slash-and-burn and ...

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, ...

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...