A polar bear stood outside the Department of the Interior’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Thursday with a message: “Stop ...

Across land, sea, and sky, wildlife photographers are using the power of pictures to help save the world’s endangered species ...

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos have pledged $100 million to the newly formed Species Recovery Alliance for conservation ...

A new alliance backed by the Bezos Earth Fund plans to commit more than $500 million over five years to some of the world's ...

Four major updates could alter the way the act is administered—and how animals are protected. The bald eagle became one of the first species protected by the Endangered Species Act when the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Leonardo DiCaprio won a best actor Oscar in 2016, a moment that became the most viewed best actor speech on YouTube, he ...

On tonight’s show, “60 Minutes” profiled private big-game hunting in Texas, which has become a $1 billion industry and is credited with saving some exotic species that are now extinct in their native ...

The creation of large, commercial alligator farms helped to save alligators. Alligator farming is a big and growing industry in Georgia, Florida, Texas and Louisiana. These states produce a combined ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. What does it mean to cause “harm”? If someone walked into your house and slapped you across the face, I think just about ...

Species are disappearing at a rate scientists say is roughly 1,000 times higher than normal, with more than 48,000 species currently threatened and up to half of all species at risk by 2050. It's ...

Leonardo DiCaprio is backing a major new global conservation effort. The actor’s organization Re:wild has teamed with the Bezos Earth Fund to launch the Phoenix Species Project, a $200 million ...

The Trump administration is removing protections from the key places where endangered species live, saying states can keep the areas safe. But experts say states aren’t equipped for the task. Earlier ...