endangered species

A United Nations-backed conference aimed at regulating international trade in endangered species such as elephants, polar bears, sharks and bluefin tuna kicked off today in Qatar with a warning that stronger action must be taken to protect wildlife at risk.

The federal government has recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles swimming off the Atlantic Ocean coast, a decision that could have big implications for the fishing industry.

An iconic bird living in western U.S. sagebrush country faces extinction but won't be named an endangered species, the U.S.

Interior Department said Friday.

The leader of a U.N. program to protect endangered species charged that Zimbabwean security forces are spearheading poaching of elephants and rhinos in the troubled country.

A video camera in the jungles of Indonesia has captured the first known footage of Sumatran tiger cubs in the wild, boosting efforts to conserve the endangered species, an environmental group said Thursday.

Raju the bear will never have to smoke cigarettes or dance on his hind legs under the hot sun again thanks to a multinational project to save an endangered species and end a cruel centuries-old tradition in India.

The scimitar horned oryx, one of the endangered species kept at Tipperary, has been sold to a hunting safari.

The San Diego Zoo is showing off work it's doing at a Las Vegas-area center to help repopulate an endangered species of desert tortoise.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is buying 220 acres north of Lincoln to help protect habitat used by the Salt Creek tiger beetle and other endangered species.

Federal officials have extended their endangered species listing to salmon on three of Maine's largest rivers.