Endangered species

158 Giant Endangered Tortoises Released on Galápagos Island Where They’d Been Extinct for 180 Years

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Floreana giant tortoises released – © Galápagos Conservancy For the first time in over 180 years, a giant tortoise population is once again walking the landscapes of Floreana Island—launching the largest restoration effort ever undertaken on the Galápagos islands. 158 juvenile giant tortoises of Floreana lineage were released his week into their ancestral habitat, marking … Read more

Airline Welcomes VIP Endangered Turtle Who Needed Hospital After it was Blown Off Course By Powerful Winter Storm

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Crush the sea turtle gets ticket on Loganair to reach sanctuary – SWNS On 9 January, large parts of Europe were brought to a standstill as Storm Goretti, a powerful winter cyclone with 110 mph winds, swept into the region from the south. Soon after, a beachcomber found a young loggerhead turtle washed up on … Read more

Beautiful Australian Frog Returns to the Wild with the Help of ‘Frog Spas’ and ‘Frog Saunas’

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Releasing a green and golden bell frog back in the wild – Credit: University of Canberra This beautiful amphibian is being reintroduced to wetlands around Australia’s capital of Canberra after suffering a population collapse due to chytrid fungus. Called the green and golden bell frog, these animals were bred in captivity and will be released … Read more

Milestone for Rewilding as Ostriches Return to Saudi Desert After 100-year Absence

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A red-necked ostrich – credit, Shlomi Chetrit via PikiWiki Israel CC 2.5 If you pull out a world map to see where you could find some space to stick a few endangered species without the risk of bothering human settlements, the Arabian Peninsula comes to mind as an obvious location. With virtually the entire population … Read more

The Tiger Population Doubled in India in Just Ten Years

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Panna Tiger Reserve Conservation in India successfully doubled the native population of tigers in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study reveals. In 2010, the nations that make up the remaining range countries of the tiger set a target to double the number of wild tigers worldwide—a goal called Tx2—10 at the St. … Read more

‘Extinct’ Snail Found in Alleyway Results in Species Pulled Back From the Brink: A ‘Once in a Career’ Moment

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Chester Zoo saves Bermuda snail (Poecilozonites bermudensis) from extinction A button-sized snail once thought extinct has been officially saved after conservationists bred and released more than 100,000 into the wild. The greater Bermuda snail (Poecilozonites bermudensis) was believed to be lost forever until a small surviving population was rediscovered in an alleyway in Bermuda’s capital, … Read more

Numbers of Rare Butterfly Eggs are Best on Record After Hedges are Allowed to Grow Wild

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Brown Hairstreak (Thecla betulae) – by Iain H Leach / Butterfly Conservation Numbers of rare butterfly eggs have skyrocketed in South Wales after landowners let their hedgerows grow wild. Volunteers for the UK nonprofit Butterfly Conservation have counted record tallies of Brown Hairstreak eggs this winter around the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire. The success, they … Read more

Hundreds of Ponds Restored Across Iowa Bring This Endangered Fish Back, Along with 100s of Species

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A Fish and Wildlife Service biologist holds a handful of endangered Topeka shiners – credit, Kimberly Emerson / USFWS Across Iowa, a tiny fish has inspired an enormous conservation program that has seen hundreds of ponds restored to their natural state. Though originally for the sake of this small federally-endangered fish, the lakelets soon demonstrated … Read more

Scientists Hail Record Number of Sightings in January as Auspicious for Endangered Right Whales

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– credit, CCS / Photo taken under NOAA permit 25740-02 As the Critically-Endangered North Atlantic right whale continues its long, slow journey back from the brink of extinction, there have been many joyful milestones worth celebrating. With the year still so young, there’s already been another: a record-number of sightings taken by a single aerial … Read more

Astonishing 916% Increase in Breeding Birds Seen at England’s Premier Rewilding Project

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Copyright Knepp Wildland Birdwatchers can’t believe what’s been appearing through their binoculars on a small landholding in West Sussex, England, where the nation’s premier rewilding project continues to compound on its already staggering achievements. The Knepp Estate has increased the number of breeding birds from just 55 individuals of 22 species in 2007, to 559 … Read more