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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 […]

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 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 […]

Save the Rusty Patched Bumblebee

The rusty patched bumblebee is in danger of becoming extinct! The bumblebee is an integral part of our food system. Two-thirds of the world’s crops are pollinated by animals, with bees being the most prevalent and important pollinator. The rusty patched bumblebee is endemic to North America. In the midwest and north-east America, the rusty patched bumblebee […]

Celebrate International Polar Bear Day!

Today polar bears are listed as a threatened species in the United States under the Endangered Species Act. The main cause of this listing is climate change’s effect on the polar bear habitat. These bears need interconnected polar ice caps to get from one place to the next, but this sea ice is on its way out…and at […]