Historians have revealed how centuries of royal menageries and public spectacles exploited big cats like the Barbary lion, contributing to their eventual extinction. Once symbols of power in Morocco, ...

Belfast Zoo has said a deeply sad farewell today to two of its most loved and rarest animals - Barbary lion sisters Thheiba and Fidda. The 22-year-old siblings were put to sleep due to failing health ...

South Africa’s conservation debate is too often anchored within the blunt slogan, “If it pays, it stays.” At face value, this ...

Decades after nearly going extinct, the world’s only existing population of Asiatic lions is overrunning a small reserve in ...

At its February 12, 2026 meeting, the California Fish and Game Commission (the Commission) unanimously voted to list mountain lion (Puma concolor) populations in parts of central and southern ...

The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction, the global authority on threatened wildlife announced Thursday.

Antarctica’s iconic emperor penguin has been deemed an endangered species as the sea ice it depends on shrinks because of rising temperatures. The penguins’ population is expected to drop by half by ...

Emperor penguins and the Antarctic fur seal were moved to the endangered species list by the international organization that tracks extinction risk to plants and animals globally. The decisions for ...

As a decades-long penguin lover, a (perhaps futile) comfort I took despite climate change was that penguins weren’t outright endangered, save for a few species. But of course, with all things climate ...