conservation

International Mountain Chicken Day is celebrated on September 13th. The day was established to bring awareness to the declining population of this endanger...

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resource (SCDN) is ramping up its efforts to monitor and manage Diamondback Terrapin Turtle. According to SCDNR...

The National Aquarium returned 25 juvenile sea turtles to their ocean home at the end of February following successful rehabilitation. The 13 Kemp’s rid...

In the last few years, a "positive list" for keeping pets has already been introduced in the Netherlands, Belgium and France. In Germany, German agricultur...

How to translocate snakes? Researchers examined dozens of studies to find the best strategies in order to improve their conservation techniques.  For a ...

Malaysian reptile enthusiast Yap Ming Yang hopes visitors to his reptile cafe will learn to appreciate snakes and lizards as much as they do furrier creatu...

A new Axolotl Museum and Amphibian Conservation Center dedicated to Mexico's critically endangered axolotl salamander is highlighting the amphibian's remar...

A second batch of southern corroboree frogs has been released in Kosciuszko National Park as part of continued efforts to boost their number. The southe...

American bullfrog (not native to western North America) threaten dozens of Species of Greatest Conservation Need and many federally Threatened/Endangered s...

The North Carolina Aquariums were excited to release more than 100 rehabilitated cold-stunned sea turtles during winter stranding events. Included in the 1...

An impressive video has gone viral on the internet in the last days. In a new pioneering way, researchers were able to measure the population of green sea ...

A threatened species for nearly a decade, the narrow-headed garter snake is getting new life and help from scientists at the Phoenix Zoo. Tara Harris, d...

Scientists of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Illinois Department of Natural Resources are working in earnest to observe and document the Illinois c...

Using samples from NOAA Fisheries’ tissue library, scientists have sequenced the sea turtle genomes of endangered leatherback and green sea turtles. "Se...

In an effort to learn more about the distribution of hellbenders and mudpuppies, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources has launched a citizen sci...

An endangered yakka skink is getting a helping hand deep in the heart of the mulga lands, just outside Charleville in south-west Queensland. Predator fe...

Six Critically Endangered Madagascar big-headed turtles (Erymnochelys madagascariensis), have hatched at Durrell’s Jersey Zoo for the first time. The ju...

The Fernandina Giant Tortoise disappeared more than 100 years ago. The first time a confirmed sighting of this species was registered was in 1906. No confi...

Reptile expert Roger Hill, owner of The Snake Pit, has run his retail and educational business for 30 years. "We weren’t interested in sports. We were i...

In many places, busy roads lie between newts and their breeding grounds. In Petaluma and other parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, thousands of newts are ...

New footage shows hundreds of thousands of baby giant South American river turtles hatching. The turtles began hatching in mid-December and continued into ...

The juvenile loggerhead turtle named Ruth can come back to the ocean this September, after 7 months being treated for hypothermia. In February, rescuers...

River restoration brings huge benefits for local reptiles and amphibians. Researchers have determined the effects that differences in water flow had on re...

The San Antonio Zoo's Reptile House gained several new additions this year, including 11 psychedelic rock geckos bred by the zoo's Ectotherms Team, accordi...

Leonardo DiCaprio’s frog—The longnose harlequin frog, extinct since 1980s and rediscovered in 2016, has since become a symbol of action against mining Inta...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission finally approved to adding the striped newt to the state’s threatened species list. Found primaril...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking the public to report any observations of mudpuppies (aquatic salamanders) they may accidentally cat...

Many American turtle species are in trouble due to poaching as illegal trafficking poses serious conservation concerns for native America's turtles. "It...

New research into the embryo health of captive bred Southern Corroboree frogs may help their survival and guide conservation efforts. With its yellow an...

Songs of Disappearance, an album of frog calls, debuts at third behind Paul Kelly and Taylor Swift on the ARIA charts. An album featuring the croaks and ca...