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Thank YOU for Providing Three Black Rhinos With Emergency Medical Care!

From 1970 to 1995, the population of black rhinos declined by 96%, from around 70,000 individuals to just 2,410. Today, there are just over 5,000 individuals. This small but vital increase is thanks to people like YOU who support conservation programs across Africa.

Celebrate World Ranger Day 2017 with the Baby Rhino Meimei

Meimei's medical condition made her a prime target for poachers. Because of you, we can support rangers that save rhinos like Meimei in the most dire cases.

Svetlaya and Borya: A Tiger Love Story

In 2014, these childhood friends were released back into the wild – but into two separate provinces. Heartbroken, Borya set out to find Svetlaya again. Read on to find out if Borya found his long lost lover!

For Shark Month: Save Sharks from Becoming Shark Fin Soup

Just one year ago, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – one of our Project Peril partners - saved two whale sharks being held captive underwater in Indonesia. If not for WCS, these poor sharks would have ended up in China and other parts of Southeast Asia. Their fins would be chopped from their bodies and made into shark fin soup, while their bodies would be thrown aside to rot.

Help a Snow-White Giraffe and Her Friends Beat Extinction

Omo 2017 Giraffes are experiencing a devastating population decline. Over the past 30 years, their numbers have dropped by 40%! These tall, yellow speckled creatures are currently listed as vulnerable, but many groups are working to increase this listing to endangered, which would provide them with the additional protection they desperately need. Protection for giraffes […]

Save the Sumatran Tiger From Extinction

The tiger has been an animal of great wonder and mystery since most of us were children. Their beautiful striped patterns, strength, and strong posture make one feel in awe and trepid at the same time. Originally there were eight subspecies of tiger, but that number has diminished to six in the last 80 years. All six […]

Introducing Project Peril, GreaterGood.org’s Latest Signature Program

It’s no coincidence that GreaterGood.org picked April 22 to announce our new Signature Program, Project Peril. On April 22, 1970, 20 million people gathered across the country to show their support for the environment. People were beginning to understand the impact humans were having on the environment as we expanded into wildlands and polluted our common […]

What A Young Boy Gave Up When He Found A Critically Endangered Pangolin Will Melt Your Heart

A young Sunda pangolin found its way into a small village near the protected Khlong Nakha Wildlife Sanctuary in southern Thailand last year, where the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has been conducting wildlife surveys. For most of the Thai population, coming across a pangolin is like finding treasure, since the animal can be sold for a vast amount of money […]

Save Sharks from Swimming Away Forever

An estimated 25% of shark and ray species are threatened with extinction and require action. Every year, fins from as many as 73 million sharks end up in the global fin trade. Fishermen capture live sharks, fin them, and dump the finless animal back into the water to die from suffocation or predators.

Save Elvis the Rhino and His Black Rhino Friends from Extinction

Elvis checking things out. Elvis is a critically endangered black rhino, roaming the plains of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya. He is also a rare story of humans successfully hand raising a threatened mega herbivore, and later releasing the animal back into the wild. Elvis was born in 2005 to a blind mother named […]