Ghost elephants are “refugees in their own homelands, moving in secret between small patches of habitat,” the Elephant Crisis Fund explains in a report.

Cranes are some of the world's most majestic birds, with 15 species found globally. Four of these are found in Africa. The wattled crane in South Africa was in decline, but seems to have turned a ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday summoned Endangered Species Act help for seven kinds of pangolin, a sluggish and bizarre-looking creature found in parts of Asia and Africa.

The fifth animal rediscovered in recent years. The Endangered Wildlife Trust said the data they collected, including tissue samples, should allow them to confirm it is a distinct species.

U.S. officials proposed Monday to protect the pangolin, a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales, under the Endangered Species Act.The pangolin is “the most trafficked mammal in the world ...

A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin meaning 'pertaining to ...

Africa's pangolin crisis: The delicacy that's driving a species to the brink. ScienceDaily . Retrieved July 12, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 06 / 250614034233.htm ...

“At that time, it was a desperate situation,” said Sophie Maxwell, CEO of Connected Conservation Foundation (CCF), a nonprofit that for 10 years has partnered with Cisco to use digital technologies to ...

The Trump administration is proposing giving pangolins Endangered Species Act protections. The scaly mammals come from Asia and Africa, not the U.S., so the protections would be related to imp… ...

Pangolins — strangely adorable, scale-covered creatures believed to be the most heavily trafficked mammal in the world — should receive protection under the Endangered Species Act, federal ...

Across their range, hippos may be declining at 6% to 8% a year, the scientists said. Estimates of hippo populations across Africa have varied wildlife, from 115,000 to 192,000 over the past decade.

Four species of pangolins inhabit Asia and four live in Africa, and all species are in grave danger of extinction. Scientists have suggested that two more species of pangolins may exist. One pangolin ...