Conservation

From protecting endangered species and preserving our planet’s biodiversity to restoring vital ecosystems, our in-depth reporting covers conservation efforts around the world.

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Recent stories in Conservation: How to Save the World’s Largest Lemurs? Listen to Their Songs.; Do Gorillas Laugh? Grieve? Could They Fight a Hippopotamus? An Expert Answers Questions About the Impressive Primates; What Happens When Your New Cat Species Goes Mega-Viral?; This Toad Is Fighting for Survival—and It Has a Lawyer; See a Great White Shark Snatch a Fish From a Line; UK Reader Awards 2026: Winners Revealed; What Does It Take to Move 2,000 Rhinos?; Can This Bone-Eating Bird Be Saved?; Meet the Indigenous Women Protecting Peru’s Amazon Rainforest; Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years; Will Joel Sartore Run Out of Animals to Photograph? The Photo Ark Founder Weighs In; Can AI save the Maldives’ coral reefs?; Fighting to Save the Pangolin, the World’s Most Wanted Animal; Want to See a Sloth? Here's How to Do it Responsibly; How This Orphaned Elephant Defied the Odds; Inside the Longshot Experiment to Resurrect Elm Trees—With the Disease That Decimated Them; Everything You Need to Know About Queensland’s Tropical North; How Wildfire Is Erasing the Forests of the American West; America’s National Parks Are Entering a New Era; Why a Nat Geo Photographer Spent 3 Years With Elusive Giant Anteaters; A Century of Photographing Lions in National Geographic; Making Way for the Giant Anteaters of Brazil; The Extraordinary Comeback of Zimbabwe's Endangered Black Rhinos; One Photographer’s Quest to Reveal Every Animal on Earth; Dive in Italy's Tremiti Islands to help protect the sea