FUENGIROLA, Spain—Five Komodo dragon hatchlings have been born at a zoo in Spain, the first successful breeding of the world’s largest lizard—an endangered species—in the country for a decade. “This is a great achievement for all of us,” Milagros Robledo, the head of the Herpetology department at the Bioparc Fuengirola zoo in southern Spain and […]
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Three endangered freshwater dolphins have died within 10 days of each other, alarming conservationists in Cambodia. The death of a third healthy dolphin in such a brief period indicates “an increasingly alarming situation and the need for an intensive law enforcement be urgently conducted in the dolphin habitats,” the World Wildlife Fund said […]
JAKARTA—Indonesia has welcomed two baby Javan rhinoceroses to a family of one of the world’s most endangered species, the environment, and forestry ministry said. Hidden camera footage released by the ministry at the weekend showed a small rhino trudging alongside another almost three times its size in the muddy terrain of the protected Ujung Kulon […]
CANBERRA, Australia—Koalas were declared officially endangered Friday in eastern Australia as they fall prey to disease, lost habitat, and other threats. Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley downgraded their conservation status across the country’s east coast, in Queensland, New South Wales, and the Australian Capital Territory, on a recommendation by the government’s Threatened Species Scientific Committee. […]
African penguins, a red-listed endangered species, will sleep easier thanks to a Kickstarter project that reached it’s $150,000 goal on June 8. The money will be used to build and install artificial nests designed to protect the seafaring birds from predators and the elements. The project comes at a critical time for the birds, said […]
Customs workers at Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur Airport found 330 tortoises packed into several suitcases. Five were ploughshares; the other 325 were of the Indian star variety. The ploughshare is native to Madagascar. The Indian star comes from India and Sri Lanka. The Indian star is listed as endangered. The ploughshare is critically endangered. The suitcases […]
Wildlife experts examined 27 rescued baby tortoises and pronounced them healthy. The highly endangered tortoises were found in a box on a bus. They were being smuggled to Europe. The experts confirmed that these are Galapagos tortoises. Galapagos tortoises are the largest species. They could grow to be 6 feet long and weigh 500 pounds. […]
CHICAGO (AP)—A highway in suburban Chicago has become the second Midwest road construction project delayed temporarily because of concerns about possible harm to a bumblebee recently listed as an endangered species. U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman this week halted work on the nearly 6-mile-long (9.6 kilometers) Longmeadow Parkway in Kane County, Illinois, until at […]
