Endangered Species Good News

To help the turtles recover, a group of seven Siekopai women, who call themselves Tari Nomiowa’i, or “turtle women,” patrol the riverbanks looking for turtle tracks and nests.

The successes of the pioneering women’s collectives have inspired the formation of similar initiatives in other villages surrounding the sanctuary.

By 1889, free-ranging bison numbers dwindled to almost zero. Conservation efforts, responsible farming, and an ambitious relocation effort have afforded a bison population boom in recent years.

Recent giant anteater sightings in Rio Grande do Sul state indicate the species has returned to southern Brazil, where it had been considered extinct for more than a century.

African Parks, which manages national parks in several countries across the continent, plans to rewild all 2,000 southern white rhinos from Platinum Rhino, winding up John Hume’s controversial intensive rhino breeding project.

A San Francisco hero brought the California Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly back to the city after they had all but vanished.

With virtually all whale populations on the rise, researchers insist it’s time to disband and consolidate the International Whaling Commission.

Bangladesh has seen the highest number of olive ridley turtle eggs this year thanks to extensive conservation action across beaches and a local awareness program.

In the last decade, the sunflower sea star species dropped 90%. One researcher stepped up to save them from extinction.

Amur tigers were declared extinct in Kazakhstan in the 1950s. Today, they have returned.

A new study identified a novel virus, which has impacted over 500 amphibian species. The discovery could revolutionize conservation for frogs and toads.

Two new reports from the World Wildlife Fund of Mexico are giving conservationists hope for monarch butterflies for the first time in years.