Tag: Endangered Species

Washington (AFP) - The United States is moving to grant federal protections to the monarch butterfly -- a once-common species ...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Parenting can be tough, even for the young and energetic, but one elderly albatross ...

Cali (Colombia) (AFP) - The Caribbean US territory of Puerto Rico, likened to a "floating island of garbage" at a ...

Washington (AFP) - One of the world's rarest whale species has seen a slight population rebound, according to data released ...

Washington (AFP) - Two giant pandas destined for the Washington zoo arrived in the United States from China on Tuesday. ...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - A man who tried to breed enormous hybrid sheep using genetic material from endangered ...

Washington (AFP) - A collapse in North America's bat population led to a surge in pesticide use by farmers as ...

Washington (AFP) - A rare species of tree cactus has gone extinct in Florida, in what is believed to be ...

Rhyolite Ridge (United States) (AFP) - Delicate pink buds sway in the desert breeze, pregnant with yellow pompoms whose explosion ...

Indiana Dunes National Park and Glacier National Park (United States) (AFP) - American biologist Laura Brennan describes the coin-sized Karner ...