It’s classed as an endangered species on the IUCN Red List, with recent monitoring data estimating that just 454 adult wolves in 99 packs remain across an area of 2,700 square kilometers (1,042 ...

More than 900 known species are already extinct to date, while at least 28,500 others are listed as endangered or critically endangered by the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority.

Snout pressed to the ground, a border collie named Delta zigzagged through the shrubs on a private nature reserve near Cape Town, frantically sniffing for critically endangered tortoises. It's ...

World’s largest insect faces extinction: how to save two species of Africa’s giant Goliath beetle Luca Luiselli, The Rivers State University of Science and Technology Thu, February 27, 2025 at ...

Africa currently has 415,000 elephants, ... Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa’s elephant populations more endangered, according to IUCN. Skip Navigation. Share ...

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

Despite steep population declines driven by poaching, habitat loss, and inbreeding, only one species—Temminck's pangolin of Africa—is currently protected under the US Endangered Species Act.

One of Africa’s giant beetles is just one step away from extinction. New research has found that one species of the enormous Goliath beetles has been almost wiped out by the west African cocoa ...