Endangered Species

Hippos that are poached for their skin and teeth and sharks that are caught for their fins are up for protection at a United Nations wildlife conference.

Endangered gorillas Gracie and Elmo welcomed a baby at the Fort Worth Zoo. The yet-to-be-named baby was born on Sunday and is the zoo’s second-ever western lowland gorilla birth.

The birth of a rare greater one-horned rhino was caught on camera at the Chester Zoo in England, a win for conservationists as the species faces extinction.

The Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific will be releasing endangered frogs back into the wild after taking care of them over the past year.

The monarch butterfly has been added to “red list” of threatened species for the first time. It is categorized as “endangered” -two steps from extinction.

A copperhead snake bite posed a potentially lethal threat to one endangered lemur at the Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina. After her health deteriorated, the team determined that a rare and risky medical procedure was the only option to save her. NBC 7 San Diego’s Dagmar Midcap, host of “Down to Earth,” and LX News storyteller Cody Broadway...

There are 108 species of lemur — and each has a unique place in the ecosystem. And they are almost all highly endangered. NBC 7 San Diego’s Dagmar Midcap, host of “Down to Earth,” and LX News storyteller Cody Broadway go inside the Duke Lemur Center to find out why their facility provides such a unique opportunity to closely...

At the Duke Lemur Center, each one of the endangered lemurs is precious. So when a staff member notices an injured lemur, the whole team mobilizes to protect it. NBC 7 San Diego’s Dagmar Midcap and LX News storyteller Cody Broadway follow the team as they rush to save a lemur, named Cassia by the staff, who has been bitten...

The Duke Lemur Center is a refuge for some of the world’s most endangered primates. With incredible senses of hearing and smell, and a long bony finger for seeking out food in hollow logs, lemurs have evolved into unique and special creatures. NBC 7 San Diego’s Dagmar Midcap and LX News storyteller Cody Broadway take you inside.

A new study led by San Diego conservationists found that marine mammals eaten by the critically endangered California Condors contain such high levels of now-banned contaminants it may be harming their birds’ reproductive systems.

For SpaceX to move ahead with Starship plans in Texas, it must reduce harm to endangered species, according to documents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

A new giraffe calf, born on April 8, is making his debut on Thursday morning at the Los Angeles Zoo. At 6 feet, 7 inches tall, he’s the tallest baby giraffe in the zoo’s history.

Forrest Galante is trying to fight some of the misconceptions about animals that can contribute to their extinction. In “Mysterious Creatures,” a show on Animal Planet and Discovery+, Galante mediates the conflicts between humans and wildlife while trying to protect the animals. He told LX News host Tabitha Lipkin about trying to rescue a herd of elephants that were terrorizing...

A man in Revere, Massachusetts, found a rare fish on the beach. After reporting it, state officials are looking into how the endangered species ended up there. “It looked like prehistoric, like a living dinosaur. I’ve never seen something that looked that way,” said Erik Haigh, who lives near Revere Beach. At first, he thought it was a tire...

The Australian Koala Foundation estimates that there are less than 100,000 Koalas left in the wild, possibly as few as 43,000.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared one of Southern California’s rarest butterflies — the Hermes copper butterfly — as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act Monday. The agency also designated 35,000 acres in San Diego County as protected critical habitat. “The Hermes copper butterfly is one of several threatened or endangered butterflies in our region,” said Paul…

Conservation scientists at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance reported the first confirmed hatching of two California Condor chicks from unfertilized eggs.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it can not locate a trace of 23 species that were previously endangered, including the ivory-billed woodpecker and other Pacific birds and bats, 8 species of river mussels, and some plants.

The rare pink iguanas of Galapagos were declared critically endangered after an August expedition estimated their population at only 211, with no newborns.

A group’s day at the beach became a rescue mission after beach-goers in Antofagasta, Chile found an injured olive ridley turtle. They alerted authorities, who were able to transport it to a local rescue center for treatment.