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Grab your tissues, folks. A 1,300-pound manatee named Snooty recently passed away after celebrating his 69th birthday. In the wild, manatees are fortunate to live into their teens, which is partly why the elder marine mammal...

Grab your tissues, folks. A 1,300-pound manatee named Snooty recently passed away after celebrating his 69th birthday. In the wild, manatees are fortunate to live into their teens, which is partly why the elder marine mammal...

Stiegler Gorge dam on the Selous park, a world heritage site listed as ‘in danger’, will cause irreversible damage, say conservationists

Environmentalists say President Donald Trump's administration has declared war on California marine animals after an announcement this week from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...

Manatees are found in Florida yet beloved around the world for their plodding, languid behavior and slightly dopey appearance. Since the 1970s, clubs and groups have raised awareness and funds to protect these so-ugly-they-are-cute...

A leaking natural gas pipeline in Cook Inlet, Alaska won’t be fixed until the ice melts – continuing to flow unchecked into a habitat for endangered beluga whales...

A new law in China makes it illegal to eat members of an endangered species, a major step forward in protections for wild animals. However, animal rights activists claim the legislation doesn’t go far enough, because it...

Once the existing global embargo on ivory sales expires in 2017, elephants may be doomed to extinction, according to a statement by officials from 29 African states...

As if the world's marine animals didn't have enough to worry about -- with climate change, ocean acidification, and overfishing threatening their existence -- emerging research over the past several decades has also suggested...

After over 13 years of negotiation and planning between conservation groups, the government, and the fishing industry, Malaysia recently established a massive 1-million-hectare marine park...

Wild tiger populations are on the rise, according to a new report released by the World Wildlife Fund. For the first time in 100 years, the number of tigers living in the wild has increased over previous estimates, tracing...

America has a pesticide problem. There are no two ways about it. Although the acreage of farmland across the country is waning, pesticide use is as prevalent as ever in agriculture, in urban settings, in public parks, and...

The Cambodian government recently approved a $20 to $50 million Cambodian Tiger Action Plan (CTAP) to try and save the majestic wild cats, which were last glimpsed in the country via camera trap in 2007...

Decades of conservation efforts are paying off for green sea turtles in Florida and Mexico. In the late 1970s, populations had dwindled due to heavy commercial harvesting of turtle eggs and meat but protection programs have...

When it comes to monitoring endangered species, the less invasive the method the better. Conservationists have used camera traps and drones to gain insight into wildlife populations, but flashes and buzzes can change animal...