To keep Everglades restoration on track, the South Florida Water Management District on Thursday approved a captive breeding program for endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrows which nest in marle ...

A tiny sparrow is causing big problems in Florida for local authorities that have struggled to agree on effective conservation tactics. The Cape Sable seaside sparrow is only 5 inches long and endemic ...

There's some cautious optimism these days among wildlife experts working to save the critically endangered red wolf. Progress to rebuild the wolf population has been slow, but after several years of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The little birds have seen a major population decline. Photo: National Park Service by Lori Oberhofer. The first time I saw a Cape ...

With the endangered island fox now thriving again on the Channel Islands, a captive breeding program is no longer needed and the remaining breeding facility, on Santa Rosa Island, will be shut down.

Time is running out for the great Indian bustard. In the wild, fewer than 150 of these critically endangered ostrich-like birds survive, mostly in India’s Rajasthan state. But a captive-breeding ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Red Wolf 2323’s success brought renewed hope for his dying species. In May, the only breeding male American red wolf in the wild fathered five pups with his ...

A handful of orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) nestlings. These Australian parrots are critically Endangered, and their wild population is still declining due to uncontrolled runaway ...