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As wildlife tourism grows, scientists are asking a bigger question: can we bring people closer to nature without reshaping the ecosystems they came to see?

Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible. Established by the United Nations to mark the signing of the Convention on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extinction rates far exceed natural background levels observed in the fossil record, though they have not yet reached the scale of ...

Some of the world's most distinct and ancient animal species, which play crucial roles in our planet's ecosystems, are exploited for the wildlife trade across large parts of the world, according to ...

The plague is one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history. An estimated 50 million Europeans died from it in the mid-1300s when it was known as the "Black Death." Thanks to improved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Land promotionals showcase the Great Plains prairie in the early 1900s in an attempt to sell the land to farmers and ranchers. A ...

Most of us don’t realize the effort that goes into building wildlife crossings that help restore ecosystems and protect animals. Our Olivia deBortoli goes off script with experts to uncover the ...

Louisiana’s swamps support a wide range of native wildlife and plant life that many visitors have never encountered ...

A new study from Indonesia’s Leuser forests challenges the traditional use of charismatic “umbrella species” like tigers and rhinos to represent ecosystem biodiversity. Researchers found that focusing ...

WRTI Director Patrick Omondi said the exercise will cover 6,510 square kilometers of the ecosystem that borders Nairobi National Park to the north. [File, Standard] The Athi-Kapiti ecosystem has been ...