70 years after the jaguar was driven to local extinction due to hunting and habitat loss, a rewilding project has seen the species return...

A new assessment of fisheries has found that freshwater fish are under threat, with as many as a third of global populations in danger of...

Pangolins, orchids and chameleons — these are just a few species that are regularly traded in local and international wildlife markets,...

A new facility dubbed ‘Jurassic Park’ is being built on Indonesia’s Rinca Island, the last remaining natural habitat of the endangered...

At the beginning of the 1990s, while observing the large trees of the Amazon ceding ground to the scrub-like vegetation of the Cerrado,...

The past 50 years have seen a catastrophic decline in the planet’s ecosystems and natural environments. Every day at least 32,300...

For decades, scientists observed a puzzling group of whales in the Gulf of Mexico. The animals looked like Bryde’s whales — but not...

Covering around 13% of Earth’s surface and harbouring an estimated 83% of its endangered wildlife, protected areas are tasked with an...

Two miniature sculptures sold on eBay in December 2020: a tiny egg with a chick hatching through the shell, and an intricately carved...

When Singaporean customs officials opened a shipping container en route to Vietnam from Nigeria on April 3, 2019, they found piles of...

An upgrade to a road that cuts through one of Southeast Asia’s last great swaths of intact rainforest in Sumatra is driving deeper...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service is facing legal action after being accused of not taking enough direct action to help the struggling red...

A spate of whale deaths has been linked to the UK Ministry of Defence’s use of sonar in Scottish waters. Scientists were tracking the...

Teams at London’s National History Museum identified 503 new species in 2020, including a lungless worm salamander, an armoured slug and...

Research co-authored by the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre and other scientific parties has revealed that...

Despite Africa being rich in natural capital – including resources like water, forests, fisheries, rivers and wildlife – this asset has...

It goes without saying that 2020 has been an unprecedented year. For rhinos, COVID-19- related lockdowns have brought poaching to a...

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) is celebrating a record breeding year after 57 wildcats were born within the UK...

Scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society have discovered a refuge for coral reefs and marine life off the coast of East Africa,...

December 14 is Monkey Day! In celebration, Earth.Org is republishing this piece from November 16, 2020. Scientists have discovered a new...