Endangered Species Good News

Comebacks, rare sightings, and conservation wins for endangered animals around the world

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.

A Baird's tapir, a mammal with a long snout, roots through a cassava field

Scientists just cleared an endangered species' name — with the help of camera traps

The Baird’s tapir had long been accused of cassava theft. Researchers stepped in to see what was really going on.

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 small dark-furred mammal, a pine marten, with pointed ears and a pale chest marking stands on a rocky surface, looking toward the camera with green foliage blurred in the background.

Trail cameras capture adorable sighting of first wild pine marten babies born in a century

The new kits are the offspring of a group of endangered pine martens who were released into the wild in 2024 and 2025.

Snow leopard facing camera on rocky, sparse terrain with forested mountains and a river visible in the background.

Trail cameras capture rare footage of the world's most elusive big cat, dubbed 'the ghost of the mountains'

Snow leopards were once “king of the mountains.” Now they are as rare as “ghosts.”

A clouded leopard walks across rocky ground with sparse vegetation at night, its spotted coat illuminated against a dark background.

Trail cameras capture rare footage of elusive leopard species, dubbed 'the ghost of the forest'

Footage was gathered over the course of 16 years, making it the longest study of this elusive species on record.

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.

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.

A black and white still of trail camera footage showing a northern hairy-nosed wombat

Conservationists 'ecstatic:' Trail cameras spot one of the world's rarest mammals — with a baby in its pouch

Conservationists in Queensland, Australia “turned to mush upon seeing the images.”

Camera Trap Images of Rare Gorillas with Infants May Reveal Good News in DRC

Camera traps in the Tayna Nature Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo have recorded two mother-infant pairs of eastern lowland gorillas, confirming the presence of healthy family groups in one of their last strongholds.

A forest in Thailand with low hanging leaves.

This cat with 'otter-like feet' went extinct in Thailand nearly 30 years ago. Then trail cameras caught it on film

The flat-headed cat is one of the most elusive wild cats in the world.

An adult male tiger in Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary.

Thailand's rangers hailed for doubling tiger population amid conservation hurdles

Data revealed in a new study show a steady recovery of tigers in Thailand’s Western Forest Complex over the past two decades. This recovery has been mirrored by a simultaneous increase in the numbers of the tigers’ prey animals, such as sambar deer and types of wild cattle.