Locals near Brazil’s Fonte Boa region initially discovered the large urns sticking out of the ground where a tree was uprooted, experts said.

In early January 2025, 20 red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha), a parrot species that was extinct in the Brazilian state ...

Not all plants can be stored in a seed bank. Cryopreservation offers an alternative, but critics question whether this form of conservation will work.

The spot Sebastião Salgado wants me to see is a few minutes up a fire road, on a ridge he used to reach on horseback. We go there by SUV. The road is red dirt and the forest is young, but already ...

Now, thanks to those efforts, the species has been downgraded to critically endangered by the IUCN Red List, conservationists said. In 2015, participating zoos began releasing the snails back into ...

On a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, a rare species once declared extinct in the wild has been rediscovered. Partula tohiveana, or the Moorean viviparous tree snail, was native to French ...

Now, thanks to those efforts, the species has been downgraded to critically endangered by the IUCN Red List, conservationists said. In 2015, participating zoos began releasing the snails back into ...

Now, thanks to those efforts, the species has been downgraded to critically endangered by the IUCN Red List, conservationists said. In 2015, participating zoos began releasing the snails back into ...