WWF is calling on the Spanish government to urgently implement a captive breeding programme to save the critically endangered Iberian lynx from being the first cat species to become extinct since the ...

Wide-eyed and bewildered, a tiny, house cat-sized island fox was reluctant to flee from its cage for the first time into the wilds of windswept Santa Rosa Island. The captive-bred predator remained ...

Recent advances in amphibian reproductive biology highlight innovative approaches aimed at mitigating the dramatic declines observed in many species globally. Research in this field is increasingly ...

Time is running out for the great Indian bustard. In the wild, fewer than 150 of these critically endangered ostrich-like birds survive, mostly in India’s Rajasthan state. But a captive-breeding ...

Species extinctions, endangerment and captive breeding / C.D. Magin [and others] -- Effective use of flagship species for conservation of biodiversity: the example of lion tamarins in Brazil / J.M.

Resorts World Sentosa, one of Singapore’s biggest tourist draws, has stopped acquiring new dolphins and suspended its captive ...

The sole remaining population of Javan rhinos, around 70 individuals, persists in a single national park in Indonesia. A new paper argues that conservationists should clear some areas of the park to ...

Maybe the most endangered bird on the planet is the Cape Sable seaside sparrow in the hand of Stuart Pim, an ornithologist who is studying the birds that number about 2,500 in Everglades National Park ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The little birds have seen a major population decline. Photo: National Park Service by Lori Oberhofer. The first time I saw a Cape ...

India’s efforts to save the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard have recorded an important milestone with the hatching of two new chicks at a conservation breeding facility in Rajasthan. The ...