conservation

Tasmania’s Central Highlands is known as one of the last strongholds of the endangered Australian eastern quoll. The creature’s numbers are dwindling, but a pilot reintroduction program is underway to see whether the local population can be saved before it’s too late.

A rare 15th-century tapestry that went missing for 400 years is on display in Somerset. The Tournai tapestry is the oldest owned by the National Trust and has undergone four years of conservation work by experts to restore its former glory.

A conservation group in San Francisco is aiming to buy about 3,100 acres of remote California coastal land. This would protect it from possible logging and reserve it for public use.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom extended a drought emergency declaration across the entire state on Tuesday following the second driest year on record as the state battles with record low storage in its largest reservoirs. The emergency declaration comes as nearly 88 percent of California and much of the American West are experiencing an “extreme” or “exceptional” drought, according to […]

The Louisiana family behind world-famous Tabasco hot sauce is on a mission to help conserve wetlands that protect the coastal region from hurricanes and floods.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law a landmark conservation bill that addresses the backlog of infrastructure needs for public lands.

NEW YORK—The oldest book that Jeff Peachey has worked on was a papyrus fragment from over 2,000 years ago. Rather, the papyrus’s glass protection had cracked, so what Peachey needed to do was replace the glass. “You don’t touch things from year 3[A.D.],” Peachey told NTD with a laugh. Peachey has been conserving books for […]

The world’s biggest bee species, once thought extinct, has now been found alive. The rare species, known as Wallace’s giant bee (Megachile pluto), has not been seen since since 1981, according to Earther. Before that, it hadn’t been seen in an even longer stretch, over 100 years. But researchers encountered the species once again in […]

A zoo in Argentina will undergo a conversion to an eco-park. The zoo will focus less on displaying animals and more on protecting them, along with conserving biodiversity. The plans came about after an announcement that zoo ownership would be transferred to the public. Some animals will be transferred for specialized care. The animals that […]

Local communities in India are helping save the ocean. A group of farmers-turned-divers shoulder two important tasks. They guide tourists to enjoy scuba-diving along the local coastline, where there is rich marine biodiversity. They also pull plastic waste from the sea. It’s part of a U.N. program to promote marine conservation.The program links conservation to […]

Lt. Col. Faye Cuevas is a decorated war veteran with 19 years’ experience in military intelligence. Now, she is using her skills to stop wild elephants from being poached. Cuevas calls herself “the accidental conservationist.” In addition to being a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, she is also a lawyer and an intelligence […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has until Saturday to explain to European Union authorities why it has increased logging in one of Europe’s last primeval forests and to suspend the excessive removal of trees, environmental groups said Friday. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, says the logging in Bialowieza Forest violates EU laws and […]

An elderly orangutan, Sandra, is still kept behind bars even though the zoo she lives in has been closed. Many of her fellow zoo inhabitants are kept in the same condition. The 140-year-old Buenos Aires Zoo closed its doors last year. It is being transformed into an ecological park. But there’s still no word on […]

India’s largest beach cleanup drive, became the world’s largest beach cleanup. It started with a lawyer in his early 30s who used just his hands to pick up trash. He didn’t contact any government agencies. Soon, others saw him. His actions even caught the attention of the UNEP (United Nations Environment Program). The drive managed […]

Footage from 156 camera shows four female Indochinese tigers with at least six cubs in Thailand’s eastern jungle. Wildlife conservationists confirmed on Wednesday (March 29) that this is the world’s second breeding population of the critically endangered cats. This is the first evidence of tigers breeding in Thailand’s eastern area in more than 15 years. […]

Taronga Zoo is abuzz as its rare newborn baby pygmy hippopotamus makes her first public debut, with mum supporting alongside. Born on Feb. 21 to first-time parents Fergus and Kambiri, the calf is thriving according to Taronga Zoo Senior Keeper Renae Moss. “She’s putting on weight every day and she’s already got little rolls of […]