Endangered Animals

April 26, 2022

Adorable Litter of Endangered Red Wolf Pups Give Hope for Future of At-Risk Species

Native to the southeastern United States, the red wolf has been an endangered species since 1967. Since the 1970s,  the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been running a captive breeding program and there is now actually a wild population in North Carolina. However, for the past four years, these wolves haven't had any pups. That all changed this year.

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March 16, 2022

Federal Judge Restores Protection to Gray Wolves in Most of the United States

The gray wolf is a conservation success story. Clawing its way back from near extinction in the 1960s, the species is once more a symbol of the American west and Great Lakes region. However, in November 2020, the Trump administration ended many of the federal regulations which had allowed the populations to recover, legalizing hunts in the electoral battleground states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

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February 4, 2022

Ecuador Expands the Galápagos Marine Reserve by More Than 23,000 Square Miles

The world is full of beautiful habitats, but the Galápagos Marine Reserve is an ocean ecosystem unlike any other. These protected waters surrounding the Galápagos Islands (a territory of Ecuador) contain over 3,000 species of marine life, some of which are found nowhere else on Earth. Poaching and illegal fishing activities inside the reserve—as well as legal fishing just beyond the boundaries—threaten the creatures which call these waters home.

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November 5, 2021

Critically Endangered Big-Headed Turtle Babies Are Born in London

Turtles are famous for pulling their heads into their shells in a defensive posture. One critically endangered turtle species has a problem pulling off this classic reptile move. For the Platysternon megacephalum turtle, their big heads just keep getting in the way. Known as the big-headed turtle, the Asian species has an armored head which is too large to retract. This is only one cool fact about the critically endangered critter.

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