This week, the world's governments are meeting in Geneva for the 78th meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

A new analysis led by University of Oxford researchers has found that the main agreement that regulates international ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending winter in the western U.S. dropped dramatically this year, despite moves to extend ...

India, the country is home to only 450-500 snow leopards. These elusive and endangered felines, often referred to as the ...

Climate change and other threats have 16 species headed for extinction no matter how much money is spent, new research shows.

A federal appeals court is reinstating rules designed to protect a vanishing whale species from entanglement in fishing gear.

A global convention to control wildlife trade across 184 countries has encouraged conservation action but hasn’t entirely ...

In July, the Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan was officially listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Eleven endangered male frogs that traveled 7,000 miles in a bid to save their species from extinction have “given birth” to ...

America’s national bird, the bald eagle, is having a moment. The eagles find themselves in a sort of environmental updraft ...

The reptiles, an endangered species, were incapacitated when the water temperature plummeted after a rare winter storm hit ...

Although pygmy marmosets are on Ecuador’s red list of endangered species, there is some disagreement among primate specialists about what might be happening with their populations in other ...