Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

China's tidal flats feed people and mollusk-eating migrating shorebirds such as red knots, great knots and Eurasian oystercatchers. Under good management, these flats used for aquaculture markedly ...

Interpol says a monthlong operation led by the international police body resulted in the rescue of nearly 30,000 live animals that were being trafficked.

Red-backed shrikes fly thousands of kilometers to reach Africa—and they do so with astonishing precision. Aided by new ...

A surge of bear attacks in Japan has sparked alarm, with some hunters saying the situation is reaching emergency levels ...

Rising heat and habitat loss force species to adapt. Learn how Asian elephants struggle to survive and the conservationists ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

For more than 20 years, Nova lived in darkness. Trapped. Forgotten. His body broken – but his spirit still gentle, still hopeful. When rescuers brought Nova to sanctuary, he finally felt warmth on his ...

Most of the bears we rescue have never known the comfort or joy of companionship. Many were torn from their mothers as tiny cubs and caged before they ever had the chance to be around other bears. For ...

Jakarta has outlawed the sale and consumption of dog, cat and bat meat, introducing one of Indonesia’s most sweeping measures yet to curb rabies and regulate its controversial meat trade. Governor ...