Rewilding Chile and its partners released 39 young Darwin's rheas into Patagonia National Park in March and April, part of a recovery program that began in 2014 for this endangered flightless bird.
LIFE EV Safe Return, led by BirdLife Bulgaria with 15 partners, plans to release at least 40 Egyptian vultures in Bulgaria and Greece and tackle poisoning, poaching and electrocution along their 5,000 km migration.
Devon teenagers Eva and Emily, both 14, are looking for 20 children aged 8 to 13 to breed 250 harvest mice at home, guided by ecologists, for release into the wild in September 2027.
Ten years after Madhya Pradesh began moving hard-ground barasingha from Kanha to Satpura Tiger Reserve, where the deer had died out, the population has grown to about 303, with corridors now planned.
University of the Sunshine Coast researchers used DNA from greater glider droppings to identify 17 plant species in their diet, including non-eucalypts such as acacia and casuarina.
In Alta Floresta, Brazil, rope canopy bridges over city roads recorded nearly 15,000 animal crossings in 15 months, and eight more bridges have been added, bringing the total to 15.
A study of wild elephants in South Africa found they use more than 40 types of gestures intentionally, checking whether others are watching and repeating signals until they get the response they want.
Researchers at Curtin University and Taronga trained sea lions and fur seals to press a paddle when they heard a tone, producing the first hearing baselines for the two Australian species.
The new Agua Dulce Municipal Wildlife Reserve in Baures, Bolivia, protects nearly 715,000 acres of habitat for jaguars, Amazon river dolphins, giant otters and hundreds of bird species.
Rescue teams in Indonesia have saved dozens of orangutans from wildfires in Borneo and Sumatra in recent months, including a burned young female named Novita now in intensive care.
Camera traps in Thailand's Western Forest Complex show a wild tigress named Mae Kaew has raised three litters, nine cubs in all, and one of her daughters has now had two cubs of her own.
A white-crowned mangabey, a West African monkey that signals with its white eyelids, has been born at BIOPARC Valencia, the 10th birth there for the European breeding program.
Over one October weekend, more than 23,000 people at 927 events across Europe and Central Asia counted 4.8 million birds on autumn migration, with barnacle geese the most counted species.
After almost 60 little penguins on Barunguba Montague Island got their first dose, NSW teams have started vaccinating birds on Big Island and Bowen Island against H5 bird flu, with two more islands to follow.
The Saving Wildcats project has now released 50 critically endangered wildcats into Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park since 2023, and released females have given birth in the wild for three years in a row.
Teedee, a poodle mix taken from an Idaho hoarding case, had a dangerous heart defect fixed at Washington State University. The WSU veterinarian who fostered him through a month of enforced rest has now adopted him.
Australian Wildlife Conservancy has begun releasing endangered northern quolls, many of them females carrying young, into a 950-hectare feral predator-free area at Mt Zero-Taravale Wildlife Sanctuary in north Queensland.
Lulingu, a Grauer's gorilla rescued from the wildlife trade as an 18-month-old orphan and returned to the forest in 2024, gave birth on Mount Tshiaberimu in Virunga National Park in May. Mother and baby are healthy.
Thirty-eight vulnerable sand gazelles now live among the panels of a working 250-megawatt solar park in northwest Saudi Arabia, where a royal reserve hopes to breed a herd of about 600 by 2031 for release into the wild.
Tigress T138, about three years old, was flown from Bihar's Valmiki reserve and released into West Bengal's Buxa Tiger Reserve on 2 October, the first step in a phased plan to bring back a breeding tiger population.
A rare white “ghost” lobster named Casper has moved from the Maine State Aquarium to the University of New England, where scientists are working out which genes give some lobsters unusual shell colors.
A five-year-old Philippine eagle rescued in Magpet, Cotabato, was carrying three airgun pellets. Vets removed two, and the critically endangered bird is under close care. The rescue also shows eagles still use a nesting territory last confirmed active in 1990.
A 15-year breeding program at Butterfly Creek and Auckland Zoo has put 11,000 wētāpunga into 10 new wild sites. The giant insect's status improved from Nationally Endangered in 2004 to Nationally Increasing in 2022.
Two male Great Indian Bustards bred in captivity were released at Desert National Park in Rajasthan on 4 October, the first step from breeding the critically endangered bird to returning it to the wild.