By Gloria Dickie From shorebirds flying between their Arctic breeding grounds and southerly foraging ranges to freshwater fish returning to native spawning streams, migratory animals are struggling.

As the climate warms, preserving forest cover will be increasingly important for wildlife conservation, finds a study of North American mammals. The cool of the forest is a welcome escape on a hot day ...

Camera-trap image of a leopard chasing a porcupine in The Udzungwa mountains of Tanzania. Credit: Rasmus Havmøller and Francesco Rovero (CC-BY 4.0, creativecommons ...

Where are habitats available for threatened species? Are they improving or deteriorating? What landscapes could potentially be used for rewilding animals? A new modeling framework has combined years ...

Pine martens have returned to a wild lands area of south-west England after an absence of more than a century. Fifteen of the tree-climbing mammals – eight adult females and seven adult males – have ...

Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible.

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research led by the University of Bristol has revealed. The study, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An uplisting isn’t a headline-grabbing label. It’s the science catching up to whether the risk to the mammals has worsened or not, ...