While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

This popular zoo animal is about to join the endangered species list. Giraffe populations in the wild savannas of Africa have experienced a dramatic decline, and it has become so severe that the U.S.

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- Several New York animals are now on the endangered species list. The endangered species list had not been updated since 1999, so these changes give environmental workers a more ...

New Mexico is home to many desert dwellers, large and small. Some of the state’s most distinctive creatures are also endangered or threatened. Here are five standout characters that are also on the ...

Photographer Joel Sartore’s interest in animal species and extinction was first piqued as a child, when he saw an image of Martha, the last passenger pigeon, who died in 1914, in a book belonging to ...

Several local species - including birds, fish and snakes - are protected under California and federal law.

New York state environmental officials are planning to update their list of endangered and threatened species as part of a push to protect animals that are at the brink of extinction. Those include ...

With their numbers rapidly declining, scientists say emperor penguin extinction risk is growing and by the end of the century ...

Wang Ding, the hydrobiological researcher who has led the protection of the endangered Yangtze finless porpoise, stands near some of the captive mammals at the Institute of Hydrobiology under the ...

AND FUN AT OUR THEME PARKS. SOME PLAY A BIG ROLE IN CONSERVATION AND HELPING ENDANGERED ANIMALS. WESH 2 NEWS CHRISTINA WATKINS GOT AN EXCLUSIVE BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT WHAT IT TAKES TO CARE FOR AND ...