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  • Largest Jaguars on Earth Thriving in This Tropical Wetland (Thanks, in Part, to Humans)

    Human activities have threatened jaguars for decades, drastically reducing their original habitat across every continent where the animals appear. But in one region of South America, human intervention may actually be helping to save the largest jaguar on the planet. Stretching through Brazil and parts of Paraguay and Bolivia, the Pantanal region is considered the […] More

  • Animals Are Floating on Trash From Japan to the U.S. After 2011 Tsunami

    Years after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan’s Tōhoku region, we’re still seeing the effects, even here in the United States. Debris displaced by the storm have been washing up on U.S. shores, bringing on board a host of Japanese sea creatures. Nearly 300 species of invertebrates and fish have been turning up on […] More

  • The Magical Place Where You Can Stand Among Millions of Butterflies This Winter

    One of the most breathtaking and incredible migrations on the planet is made by a creature you might not expect: the monarch butterfly. It is a sight to behold. Unable to survive the cold winters of North America, millions of these incredible butterflies travel 50-100 miles a day to reach the forests of central Mexico at […] More

  • Saving The World’s Loneliest Frog From Extinction — By Finding Him a Date

    Until recently, things had been looking pretty dire for the Sehuencas water frog. The species, officially known as Telmatobius yuracare, hadn’t been spotted in the wild for more than a decade, and scientists feared the frogs had been completely wiped out from the Bolivian cloud forests they once called home. Only Romeo, a single male that had […] More

  • South Africa’s Plan to Save World’s Most Trafficked Animal

    This unusual, armadillo-like creature is the most trafficked animal on the planet — even more than rhinos and elephants — and now South Africans are trying to save it. Two conservation organizations recently announced plans to build a “pangalorium,” a pangolin refuge in Johannesburg that will help care for African pangolins seized by customs officers until […] More

  • Coral Reefs Are Now Bleaching Too Quickly to Recover

    If you’ve ever seen a piece of coral someone’s brought back as a souvenir from an island vacation, you know what coral looks like when it dies. The process through which coral turns completely white is called bleaching, and it’s the first step toward the death of a reef. Essentially, the coral gets stressed — […] More

  • Strange Blue Moths Pretend They’re Bees To Fool Predators

    A rare Malaysian moth species that was previously known only from a 130-year-old specimen has been rediscovered by Polish researchers. The Oriental blue clearwing (Heterosphecia tawonoides)  doesn’t look much like most moths. It mimics a bee, in both appearance and behavior, to avoid predators. The clearwing has elongated scales on its legs that look like […] More

  • Snow Leopards No Longer Endangered, But Still Struggling

    Snow leopards are no longer officially an endangered species — but that doesn’t mean the cat is out of the woods yet. Scientists at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which maintains a “red list” of endangered species around the globe, recently reclassified the leopard species as “vulnerable,” because there are actually more snow […] More

  • Disturbing Photo Shows Elephants Being Set on Fire By Mob in India

    Elephants and humans have long lived side by side in Southeast Asia, but as the human population continues to grow in the region, conflicts between man and animal are increasing. The problem has perhaps never been clearer than in this photo showing a female elephant and her calf fleeing desperately after being set on fire […] More

  • Shocking Photos Show Miles Long Garbage Heap Floating in the Caribbean

    This sea of garbage floating off the coast of an island in Honduras is just the latest visual example of how plastic is polluting the world’s oceans. Caroline Power, an underwater photographer and conservationist who lives on the Honduran island of Roatan, posted shocking images of the floating trash pile on Facebook. Stretching across miles […] More

  • Wildlife Traffickers Smuggling Millions of Donkey Skins into China

    Millions of donkeys across the world are being killed to fuel the demand for a traditional remedy in China. The donkey skin remedy, named ejiao, is produced by boiling down the skin to obtain gelatin, which many of its buyers believe can treat blood conditions and promote general health. When not used to remedy blood disorders, […] More

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