Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change. The IUCN is voting on whether those species should be allowed in nature.

For hunters on the Lowcountry’s dark waters, the distinctive glow of two dots on the surface lets them know an alligator is nearby. The time to strike is short, with South Carolina’s gator season ...

Two California condors hatched and raised at the Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation are now soaring ...

Together, the Land Trust of County, its partners and members have protected 269 acres of salamander habitat,” writes Sarah Newkirk in a Guest Commentary. “We named ...

The proposal appears to focus on levels of protection provided to animals and plants listed as threatened under the ...

Sergey Bachkovsky, of Greene, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Portland, Maine, to trafficking whale and bird ...

The prognosis is good for a giant sea turtle that was rescued in New Caledonia, a French overseas territory located in the South Pacific Ocean. The female loggerhead turtle, which experts estimate is ...

Federal prosecutors say a Maine man has admitted to illegally selling the body parts of animals in violation of the oldest ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ducky is dead. The International Crane Foundation announced Monday that Ducky, an endangered female whooping crane the foundation planned to release into the wilds of Wisconsin ...

An endangered whooping crane the International Crane Foundation was planning to release into the wilds of Wisconsin this fall has died of avian flu. The Baraboo-based foundation announced Monday ...