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According to a new assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Bornean orangutans are now 'critically endangered.' Habitat destruction, illegal logging, and hunting are all to blame for the dwindling...

Last month conservationists praised the first contact with a critically endangered Sumatran rhino in 40 years. But hope dissolved when the rhino, who was christened Najaq, passed away this week. She appears to have died from...

For years, humans have only glimpsed signs of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino, through camera traps or footprints. There are only around 100 remaining in the wild, so conservationists rejoiced when a female was captured...

Only three species of giant salamanders exist today and a notably large member of the Chinese species was discovered outside a cave near Chongqing recently...

The Cincinnati Zoo has been home to the only breeding project in the United States for the critically endangered Sumatran rhino, but this year marks the end of an era...

The results of a six-year study published yesterday in PLoS One have found that the elusive West African lion must now be considered critically endangered...