“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy Fraenkel, executive secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory ...

One bright spot is green sea turtles, which have recovered substantially, the IUCN said as it released its latest Red List of ...

From three species of Arctic seals to more than half of all birds globally, several animals have slipped closer to extinction ...

BIRDBASE includes all the 11,589 bird species recognized by the world’s four major bird lists (yes, there’s more than one list and they don’t agree on everything). It covers 78 ecological traits, ...

More than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk of extinction, according to the latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

The IUCN Red List update includes reassessments of 1,360 bird species by BirdLife International. It also includes 172,620 ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A species that was previously considered lost, the black-naped pheasant-pigeon, was rediscovered in 2022. Doka Nason / American Bird Conservancy Nearly 12,000 species of birds exist in the wild, and ...

This week, birders around the world lost one beloved feathered creature from their birding life list. Fortunately, no species went extinct. Instead, this change resolved a long-held misunderstanding ...

Sea turtles are making a surprising comeback, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The news was ...

Mute swans are not protected under the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, as they were introduced from Europe in the ...