Endangered Species

Learn about the world’s most endangered animals, including the threats they face and the conservation efforts to protect them.

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Recent stories in Endangered Species: How to Save the World’s Largest Lemurs? Listen to Their Songs.; This Toad Is Fighting for Survival—and It Has a Lawyer; The Race to Rescue Orangutans From Indonesia's Raging Fires; Can This Bone-Eating Bird Be Saved?; Will Joel Sartore Run Out of Animals to Photograph? The Photo Ark Founder Weighs In; Fighting to Save the Pangolin, the World’s Most Wanted Animal; One Photographer’s Quest to Reveal Every Animal on Earth; Revealing a rare look at China’s elusive giant panda; What proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act mean for wildlife; Why the most endangered sea turtles in the world are getting stranded very far from home; The curious quest to make this frog poisonous again; Hammerhead Sharks Up close; The return of Argentina’s lost multicolored parrot; A river crisis is unfolding in the American West; Chlamydia is killing koalas. Can a new vaccine save them?; Iconic photos of Asia's last lions; Can India’s last lions be saved?; Can Ibiza's colorful lizards survive a snake explosion?; Rare jaguar caught on camera drinking from Arizona watering hole; How Peter Raven transformed what we know about plants; Can the bees be saved? Are bugs and insects different? Will insect protein ever be a thing? A leading bug expert answers all your creepy-crawly questions.; Why these butterflies have fake heads; Is the bird nest of the future 3D-printed and made of mushrooms?; Inside Taiwan's 'butterfly kingdom,' a rare natural wonder takes place every year; Incredibly rare mountain gorilla twins born in Virunga: 'It’s kind of miraculous'