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Rare Okapi Born at Illinois Zoo
The Brookfield Zoo proudly announced this week the birth of a new baby okapi — an endangered animal known to be native only to a...
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Commits to Plant 50 Million Trees
Enterprise Rent-A-Car will commemorate its 50th anniversary by pledging the unprecedented gift of 50 million trees to The National Arbor Day Foundation.
Enterprise has formed...
Clean Up the World Weekend Mobilizes Millions
Some 35 million volunteers from 122 countries are expected take part this weekend in rubbish-clearing efforts along coastlines and waterways across the globe as...
Judge Rules Bush’s Lax Pesticide Law Illegal
A federal judge in Seattle yesterday overturned new Bush administration rules that weaken the governing of pesticide use and their effect on endangered plants...
77,000 Acres of Pristine Forest Purchased for Protection in Guatemala and Belize
One of the largest and most intact privately owned forest lands in Guatemala is now protected from development.
The Nature Conservancy purchased two pristine...
First Whooping Cranes Hatch in Midwest in Over 100 Years
Last week wildlife officials in Wisconsin celebrated the birth of two whooping crane chicks marking the first time in over 100 years that a...
Panda Numbers Doubled
A new method of counting Giant Pandas in the wild using DNA revealed there was more than double the estimated number living in one...
Tennessee: Brook Trout on the Rebound
Once endangered in the Eastern United States, the brook trout is making a comeback. The success of conservation efforts has led to stable populations...
Grassroots Internet Campaign Pressures Indonesia to Save Orangutan Rainforest
Under intense international pressure, the Indonesian government has virtually abandoned plans to convert large areas of ancient rainforest in the "Heart of Borneo" that...
Newly Approved Bird Repellant Saves Corn and Cranes
A ten-year cooperative effort has finally yielded a clever solution to solve the conflict between corn farmers and the endangered sandhill cranes that eat...
A Sure Sign of Spring: Wild Whooping Cranes Return to Wisconsin
Among the signs of springtime these days in central Wisconsin is the arrival of wild whooping cranes on Necedah National Wildlife Refuge and along...
Clicks Against Breast Cancer, and Hunger, and Deforestation, and…
My friend Katharine sent me a message that the Breast Cancer Site was having trouble getting enough people to click on their site for...
Golden Monkeys Surprising Comeback
China's golden monkeys, a species more endangered than giant pandas (and almost as adorable), have made a surprising comeback with populations quadrupling in the...
Blue Butterfly Back From the Brink
The Smithsonian published a feature article in 2005 called Back From the Brink that asserted: "Not every endangered species is doomed. Thanks to tough laws,...
Bald Eagle Numbers Soar
USA Removing Eagle from Endangered Species List
After nearly four decades on the endangered species list, bald eagles are soaring once again, their population climbing...
Comeback News: Seals, Humpbacks, and Urchins Increasing
Steller sea lions in Alaska are making a comeback. An aerial survey of the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands spotted more than 19,000...
Record Numbers of Steelhead Trout Running in Columbia River
After decades of decline in salmon and steelhead runs, this year the largest steelhead run in the history of dam counts is crossing Bonneville...
Whooping It Up! Cranes Return to the East
For the first time in more than a century, whooping cranes will migrate across the skies of eastern North America this fall.
It all started...
Congress Votes Overwhelmingly to Restore Everglades
The House and Senate overwhelmingly approved a $7.8 billion project to restore the Florida Everglades and undo a half-century of human impact.
Rep. Clay Shaw,...
Help for Hot Spots
A $150 million global fund has been launched to provide protection for environmental “hot spots” that contain the most dense array of plant and...