The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Scientists race to discover new species before destruction of natural world drives them to extinction

The United States is moving to grant federal protections to the monarch butterfly -- a once-common species recognizable by its striking black and orange patterns that has faced a dramatic population decline in recent decades.

For more than a century, conservationists have worked to preserve natural ecosystems by creating national parks and protected areas. Today the Earth faces a global biodiversity crisis, with more than 1 million species at risk of extinction. This makes it even more important to conserve places where at-risk species can…

More than 95% of Australian animals are invertebrates (animals without backbones – spiders, snails, insects, crabs, worms and others). There are at least 300,000 species of invertebrate in Australia. Of these, two-thirds are unknown to western science.

We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction, caused by our emergence as a planet-shaping force. Species are going extinct far faster than the average natural rate of loss.

An analysis of research on most known species around the world finds climate change puts many species at risk of extinction, and the risk increases with more global warming.

Extinction Rebellion told the Standard that five activists had been arrested by 2pm on Wednesday

A COUPLE with a passion for conservation has helped save a native rare tree on the Isle of Arran from extinction through “guerilla gardening” ...

Our Earth is home to an estimated 5.5 million species of insects, with only one fifth of these named. Considered as the most diverse animals, these creatures account for about 80% of them. Sometimes beautiful, often weird, but always fascinating, they offer immeasurable services to our ecosystems, alternately pollinating plants,…

Dozens of countries on Tuesday approved downgrading the protection status of the wolf in Europe, a move activists say will upset the recovery made by the species over the past 10 years after near extinction a century ago.

Dozens of countries on Tuesday approved downgrading the protection status of the wolf in Europe, a move activists say will upset the recovery made by the species over the past 10 years after near extinction a century ago.