To keep Everglades restoration on track, the South Florida Water Management District on Thursday approved a captive breeding program for endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrows which nest in marle ...

A tiny sparrow is causing big problems in Florida for local authorities that have struggled to agree on effective conservation tactics. The Cape Sable seaside sparrow is only 5 inches long and endemic ...

With the endangered island fox now thriving again on the Channel Islands, a captive breeding program is no longer needed and the remaining breeding facility, on Santa Rosa Island, will be shut down.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The little birds have seen a major population decline. Photo: National Park Service by Lori Oberhofer. The first time I saw a Cape ...

The Florida grasshopper sparrow, one of the most endangered birds in North America, is showing encouraging signs after more than a decade of captive breeding and carefully managed releases into the ...

There's some cautious optimism these days among wildlife experts working to save the critically endangered red wolf. Progress to rebuild the wolf population has been slow, but after several years of ...

The sole remaining population of Javan rhinos, around 70 individuals, persists in a single national park in Indonesia. A new paper argues that conservationists should clear some areas of the park to ...

Time is running out for the great Indian bustard. In the wild, fewer than 150 of these critically endangered ostrich-like birds survive, mostly in India’s Rajasthan state. But a captive-breeding ...