endangered animals

On Sunday, London’s Chester Zoo gained a new inhabitant. At about noon that day, a baby Bornean orangutan came into the world and both mother and child are reported to be doing well.

According to a new report, only about 7,000 of these majestic cats are left in the wild.

Jia Jia was given to the Ocean Park zoo in Hong Kong as a gift 17 years ago.

Animal species are disappearing at an alarming rate. Some are calling the current trend Earth’s sixth mass extinction.

Pangolins are found in Asia and Africa.

The Edinburgh Zoo is celebrating the arrival of an adorable endangered Malayan tapir calf.

A team from the Leatherback Trust extracted a plastic disposable fork that was lodged in a sea turtle’s nostril.

We first went to Churchill, Canada, to see its famous polar bears, whose life was being threatened by the vagaries of a civilization. We went to touch the space of their frontier, because we knew that their continued presence on earth represents a critical buoy to our future.

A world without elephants, even a world with severely reduced populations only incites more violence and convulsions across the entire body of the African and Asian continent.

Here are 10 new animal species discovered in 2014.

Today, many zoos promote the protection of biodiversity as a significant part of their mission. As conservation “arks” for endangered species and, increasingly, as leaders in field conservation projects such as the reintroduction of captive-born animals to the wild, they’re preparing to play an even more significant role in the effort to save species in this century.