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French Polynesia expands ocean protections to 30% of its waters

The government of French Polynesia announced it is expanding the extent of ocean where extractive industries like seabed mining and industrial fishing will not be allowed. With this move, 30% of French Polynesia’s waters will now be fully protected.

Critters caught on a trail camera crossing a bridge in Australia

Critics doubted a $1.46B wildlife crossing. Trail cameras tell a success story: '75 recorded uses each night'

The major wildlife corridor project includes 19 rope bridges, 24 underpasses, and two land bridges for local fauna.

A Blanding's turtle walks across a wildlife tunnel in Eliot, Maine

Maine's first 'turtle tunnels' help endangered reptiles cross a 'highway of death'

Installed in 2021, local officials now say that there has been a “substantial reduction” in casualties for the endangered species.

Island conservationists celebrate 80X increase in nesting loggerhead turtles

Globally, the loggerhead population has decreased by 47% over the past three generations.

Left: black and white trail camera footage of a ringtail standing up in the woods. Right: the same ringtail scurrying to the right of the frame

After rewilding success, trail cameras captured the return of one of the Pacific Northwest’s most elusive mammals

A rare ringtail was seen passing through a 405-acre property in Ashland, Oregon.

The world’s largest wildlife overpass was specifically designed to help elk. Three finally braved the six-lane crossing

Colorado leads the nation in wildlife crossings with more than 100 structures.

A close-up image of a leatherback sea turtle

An endangered sea turtle just laid the 300th nest of the season. She's been visiting Florida beaches since 2001

Juno the leatherback sea turtle recently marked a new milestone for her species.

A short-eared dog is seen cutting through the dark of a forest on a trail camera

Researchers have been following this rare 'ghost dog' species for 23 years to better learn how to protect it

The short-eared dogs of the Amazon Basin are notoriously hard to spot in the wild, but new trail camera footage is shedding light on the endangered species.

A black and white photo of a mountain bongo on a trail camera

Experts thought this critically endangered species had vanished. Then, one was spotted on a trail camera

One of the conservationists working to protect the species called the sighting “huge news.”

A photo collage of three people on a mountain trail hike, a row of products on grocery shelves, Stephen Colbert, a floating ocean solar farm, and several protest signs for racial justice

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A close-up shot of a loggerhead sea turtle

172-pound loggerhead turtle with four fishing hooks in his body given second chance by volunteers

Bowser, a 172-pound loggerhead sea turtle, was rescued from the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier recently. The operation was one of a growing number of rescues in areas where sea turtles and humans overlap.

A Sumatran Orangutan swings from a rope canopy bridge in a trail camera screenshot

Watch an orangutan swing over a busy road via canopy bridge: 'We have watched and waited for this moment'

A camera captured a critically endangered Sumatran orangutan using a specially built canopy bridge to cross a road in Sumatra.