The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

The UN and CITES recently pledged to reduce the extinction rate tenfold.

National park in Senegal shows off three surprise new recruits in fight to save critically endangered species from extinction

The European hedgehog is in decline all over Europe. In Britain, the species is already deemed vulnerable to extinction having seen its population fall by at least 46% in the past 13 years to an estimated 500,000 animals.

Over a third of species and ecosystems in the United States are at risk of disappearing, including hundreds of plants and animals in Washington.

Nada Farhoud examines an unusual and counterintuitive way to help preserve endangered seahorse populations which will be explored in a new documentary on Netflix

Australia’s red goshawk once ruled the skies. But now this almighty raptor, affectionately known as The Red, has become our nation’s rarest bird of prey.

Scientists studying the Permian-Triassic mass extinction find ecosystems can suddenly tip over

It was April in 1981 when a party of four camped for two days and nights on the forested slopes of Mount Evermann, the central peak of Socorro, a volcanic island in the Pacific some 400 kilometres southwest of Baja California, Mexico. Their fruitless search confirmed their suspicions: the Socorro…

Three Extinction Rebellion activists who allegedly exposed themselves during a protest of energy giant Santos's sponsorship of the Tour Down Under appear in an Adelaide court.