The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

World leaders on Tuesday stepped up financial support and conservation commitments to combat the global biodiversity crisis that threatens more than one million plant and animal species with extinction.

Dalmatian pelicans at Narta lagoon were saved from extinction but now the government is building an airport in Vlora’s protected landscape

The cheetahs may have to be monitored for their entire life as they are the first ones on the ground.

Arrival of eight big cats coincides with the 72nd birthday of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — At a high alpine lake here, researchers with clipboards and pens are conducting painstaking surveys that may be essential for saving butterflies and other insects from extinction.

White-nose syndrome is killing off many bat colonies across North America. The same disease is decimating the northern long-eared bat population, which is also on the brink of extinction.

U.S. officials are proposing to list the tricolored bat as endangered

Sharks are some of the most ecologically important and most threatened animals on Earth. Recent reports show that up to one-third of all known species of sharks and their relatives, rays, are threatened with extinction. Unsustainable overfishing is the biggest threat by far.

A rare “orchid of the falls” plant has been declared extinct after a hydroelectric dam destroyed its only habitat