Fireflies in decline as natural habitats are destroyed

The little blinking lights of fireflies are getting harder and harder to see lately.Urban delvelopment, pollution and artificial lights are all causing the numbers of the tiny insects to decline at a rapid...

Mexico Invests to Save Endangered Porpoise

This is such a great idea.Mexico is investing in its endangered porpoise population. They will invest about 163 million pesos (about $16 million) to save the porpoise in the upper Gulf of California, buy paying...

Primates 'at risk of extinction'

A new report says that about half of the world's primates are facing extinction, saying that the destruction of rainforests is the biggest threat to primate species."Some 300 of the 634 different types of ape...

He's black, and he's back! Private enterprise saves southern Africa's rhino f...

Great news for the Black Rhino. Sometimes private enterprise can work hand in hand with conservation as this scheme shows."A pioneering scheme which allows private landlords to own and breed wild rhinoceroses has...

Global warming puts Madagascar's reptiles and amphibians in danger of extinction

After surveying Madagascar's animals for over ten years, researcher Christorpher Raxworthy Of the American Museum of Natural History predicts that at least three species of amphibians and reptiles could be extinct...

Alaska Will Sue to Block U.S. Listing of Polar Bears as 'Threatened'

Alaska's government says polar bears aren't a "threatened species," and will sue to block that designation. Gov. Sarah Palin and other officials say that listing would block prime oil and gas development in some...

B.C. funds education programs to help save bears

The British Columbia government is setting aside funds for two organizations with the aim of providing education for people on how to treat the bears that share their environment properly, so that many are not...

Girl Scouts boycott cookies to save apes

Some plucky Girl Scouts have decided to take a stand on the cookies that group is famous for. They've learned the production of palm oil, an ingredient in the cookies, is bad for the habitat of endangered...