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Rare Rhino Species Sees Dramatic Population Growth – From Just 100 to 3,700 Today – as Poaching Falls
The populations of several species and subspecies of rhinoceros are increasing, some dramatically, while poaching rates in east Asia have plummeted over the decade,...
Locals Digging a Well Accidentally Discover a $140 Million Star Sapphire Weighing Half a Ton
It's hard work being a farmer, that is until you pull a half-ton sapphire out of the ground while digging a well... Then it's...
Astonishing Peek Into Travels of Mammoth 17,000 Years Ago: A Diary Written in Their Tusks
An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the Alaska landscape during its...
Donated Cars and Cash Flood in to South Carolina Mechanic Who Fixes Them And Gives Them Away to Those in Need
A few weeks ago, the CBS Evening News featured a rural South Carolina man who is transforming lives by repairing broken cars and giving...
Florida Just Enacted a Sweeping Law to Protect Its Vast Wildlife Corridors – And Save Panthers
From Everglades to Okefenokee, Florida legislatures just created one of the biggest wildlife corridors in the developed world with a $400 million funding seed.
The...
Circus Turns Over Last Four Performing Bears to Animal Sanctuary That Has Holistic Natural Environment
The career in the limelight is over for a quartet of performing bears after a Vietnam circus agreed to hand them over to a...
5 Experiments Proving Invertebrates Are Much More Aware than We Think
Swat a fly; who cares, it's not like they have feelings. Or do they?
Jonathan Balcombe is an English ethologist—a studier of animal behavior—and has...
Baby Elephant Rescued After Falling Into Indian Well 30-Feet Deep
A small Indian village had this baby elephant’s back after it tumbled into a well nearly 30 feet (9 meters) deep.
Arriving with its herd...
World’s Tiniest Pig at 10-Inches Tall, Once Thought Extinct, Is Returning to the Wild
Who would imagine that in the habitat of elephants, tigers, and rhinos, the world's smallest wild hog is the animal that's determining where the...
Florida Man Rescues 8-Month-old Pup From Alligator’s Grasp
There's nothing Mike McCoy wouldn't do for his adored 8-month-old chocolate lab Jack—including, it seems, wrestling an alligator.
Mike McCoy and Jack the puppy were...
U.S. Donation Kicks Off Landmine Clearing in One of the Largest Conservation Areas in the World
A new project to demine seven million square meters of land, including a critical area inside the largest contiguous wildlife area in the world,...
Believed to Be Solitary, Male Sperm Whales Actually Hang With the Boys – In Friendships That Can Last Years
A Japanese biologist studying the social structure of sperm whales has discovered that the phrase "Saturday's for the boys," translates into echolocation.
His research reveals...
They Counted Endangered Rhinos in Nepal And the Population Has Grown By 16%
A third country has announced some good news for rhinos this year. Populations of the endangered one-horned rhinoceros in Nepal have increased by 16%...
Zero Rhinos Poached in Kenya Last Year – Better Policing is One of the Keys
2020 was remarkable year for rhino protection in Kenya where not one single rhino lost its horn or lost its life last year—a feat...
‘World’s Loneliest Elephant’ Kavaan Finally Reaches New Home, Gets Hugs From Cher And New Pachyderm Pal
It’s been a big week for Kavaan the ‘loneliest elephant’. After spending decades living in poor conditions in a Pakistan zoo, he’s reached the...
Traps That Once Snared Uganda’s Wildlife Are Turned into Intricate Art With ‘Snares to Wares’
In Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda, a non-profit is helping local artisans make a living through selling sculptures made from the...
Zimbabwe Protects Its Iconic Wildlife And Bans Coal Mining in All National Parks
Zimbabwe has banned exploratory coal mining operations and many small gold mining contracts in all 11 national parks, heralding a massive victory for Zimbabwean...
There’s an Elephant Baby Boom in Kenya: Thanks to Rainfall, a Record Number Born Including Rare Twins
The combination of interruptions in international travel and periods of heavy rainfall has led to Kenyan wildlife officials reporting a recent elephant baby boom.
In...
Large Blue Butterflies Were Extinct in England, But Now Those Beauties Are Back After 50 Years
After a 150-year absence, 750 of the aptly-named large blue butterflies have successfully emerged from their cocoons to repopulate parts of their historic habitat...
UPDATE: ‘World’s Loneliest Elephant’ Finally Headed For Sanctuary After Pakistan Ordered Him Released From Zoo
An elephant named Kavaan spent nearly a decade without a playmate in an Islamabad zoo. Now, he is finally moving to a sanctuary in Cambodia.