Representative Image (AI-generated) More than 14,000 Bogong moths were tagged in an unusual attempt to uncover…
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In 1989, Detroit Zoo began helping save snails wiped out in the wild; 37 years later, 500 are travelling 5,000 miles to Tahiti, part of a program that has returned 17,000
Representative Image (AI-generated) A conservation effort that began nearly four decades ago is sending hundreds of…
Australia’s endangered eastern quolls have welcomed new joeys; after vanishing from the mainland for 60 years, the species is now breeding again in a rare conservation comeback
A study released 20 captive-bred eastern quolls at Tasmania’s 6,500-hectare Silver Plains conservation property. (Photo: Booderee…
Sea Otters were successfully reintroduced in Canada after their extinction due to fur trade, protecting the kelp populations; but now they are threatening a ‘local delicacy’
The reintroduction and success of sea otters in British Columbia was a story that initially satisfied…
In 1990, the northern spotted owl became a symbol of America’s logging wars; 36 years later, scientists say it is already functionally extinct across large swaths of its range
In 1990, a small bird became an unlikely symbol of one of America’s fiercest environmental battles.…
In 2002, New Mexico began one of America’s largest native-fish restoration projects; more than two decades later Rio Grande cutthroat trout had returned to 120 miles of streams
A major conservation effort launched in 2002 has restored New Mexico’s official state fish to more…
Between 1969 and 1972, the US released a European weevil to fight invasive musk thistle; it later attacked at least 25 native thistles, including rare and endangered species
Rhinocyllus conicus (Image Credit: Canva) A biological control programme launched in the United States more than…
In the 1990s, a predatory flatworm was released in Samoa to control giant African snails; it later became linked to the decline and extinction of native island snails
In the 1990s, a predatory flatworm was released in Samoa to control giant African snails An…
In 1987, a British naturalist became the first professional warden of a remote Seychelles island; a year later 29 endangered warblers were moved there and established a new population
In 1987, a British naturalist became the first professional warden of a remote Seychelles island In…
Meet Rana, the rare Chester Zoo piglet that was about the size of a ‘grapefruit’ at birth and belongs to one of the world’s strangest wild pig species
An English zoo is celebrating the birth of a piglet whose species, according to conservationists is…