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The Environmental Protection Agency will analyze the impacts of atrazine and glyphosate — the two most commonly used pesticides in the United States — on 1,500 endangered plants and animals in the United States under the terms of a settlement reached today with the Center for Biological Diversity. The...

The Borneo pygmy elephants are an endangered species. There are approximately 1,200 of these evolutionarily unique elephants in Sabah and all of Borneo....

Illegal trade in ivory, which has resulted in the death of over 650 South African rhinos,  is officially at its highest levels in nearly two decades,...

A total of 380 Yangtze finless porpoise have been visually identified during a survey expedition along the Yangtze River, marking a significant decline...

A group of Round Island boas are being reintroduced to one of their original habitats on another Mauritian island for the first time since the 1860’s. This...

Conservation groups today hailed protection of 9.6 million acres of critical habitat for the threatened northern spotted owl across federal lands in...

Conservation groups submitted comments today opposing construction of a new tailings basin by United Taconite that would destroy 1,300 acres of wetlands...

Cameroon has announced that is has sent special army units to stop Northern Sudanese poachers from entering its territory to hunt elephants for their...

60 environmental and social non-governmental organisations have lobbied banks and other financial institutions to stop their investments in Asia Pulp and...

The breeding skills of three female orange-tailed skinks have impressed conservationists and given the new safety net population for their Critically Endangered...