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Countless endangered species are making a comeback due to global conservation efforts

These success stories are a model for community-rooted conservation and population revival that could help other countries and regions rebuild their withering ecosystems.

Why conservation needs stories of progress

I’m writing this from deep in the Congo rainforest after a day spent observing elephants and gorillas. The presence of such magnificent creatures is both invigorating and a reminde...

Endangered Species Day highlights wildlife wins — and mounting losses

At least 18,000 animal species globally are threatened with extinction: they’re listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered by the IUCN, the global wildlife conservat...

Conservationists Successfully Tackle Invasive Trees and Fish in Vital South Africa Ecosystems

In South Africa, a coordinated series of projects has removed dangerous infestations of invasive species from 13,000 acres of important native habitat. Between 2017 and 2025, group...

Conservation victories you should know about this week

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Swift Fox Revival: Conservation Wins Restore Prairie Guardians and Endangered Mammal Success Stories

Swift fox conservation revives Great Plains guardians through fox habitat restoration, sharing prairie wildlife stories of endangered mammal wins as populations rebound across shor...

Frog conservation efforts paying off, Taipei Zoo says

Community-led ecotourism protects rebounding wild cattle in Thailand

The critically endangered banteng is making a comeback in Thailand’s Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, and has become a unique community-led conservation icon, reports Mongabay’s...

California Condor Comeback: 27 to 500+ – Conservation Wins, Recovery, Habitat Protection & Reintroduction

From 27 birds to 500+: Witness California condor's epic comeback through condor conservation success, endangered bird recovery, vulture habitat protection, and wildlife reintroduct...

What Hong Kong can learn from the Yangtze’s conservation success

In February, a landmark study in the journal Science delivered rare good news for conservation: a five-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River had halted seven decades of biodiversit...

Wildlife Roundup: Conservation progress through practical action

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Jaguars were pushed to the brink of extinction in Argentina 70 years ago. Now conservationists are celebrating their ret...

A wild jaguar sighting sparked excitement during a recent visit in Argentina’s Iberá Park.

This tiny fox species almost disappeared forever. Now, its recovery is among the fastest of any endangered species

Catalina Island foxes were nearly wiped out by a major distemper outbreak. Conservationists have brought them back from the brink — and quickly.

A Century After Vanishing, a Gentle Giant Returns

A century after the last wild European bison was shot in the Carpathian Mountains, these gentle giants are returning home, and with them, the land itself is coming back to life. Th...

Conservationists bring back Kansas species from brink of extinction

The national population of black-footed ferrets was once down to 18, but efforts in Kansas and elsewhere have boosted their numbers.

Wildlife Roundup: Global wildlife good news you should know

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Saving crocodiles from extinction

Community-led efforts are helping revive and save Siamese crocodiles from the brink of extinction. Siamese crocodiles are native to Southeast Asia and considered guardians of the w...

Rare big cat caught on camera in Honduras raises hope for conservation

For the first time in a decade, camera traps set up high in the Sierra del Merendón mountain range in Honduras captured images of an elusive big cat.

The European wildcat hovers between recovery and local extinction

A quiet comeback story is unfolding for the European wildcat in the Czech Republic’s Lusatian Mountains. Conservationists tracking this elusive species there have spotted a male an...

The stories that saved the orangutans 

In 1982, Usman Saibul and his friend Jerry were working for the Indonesian government’s transmigration programme in Ketapang, West Kalimantan, when they saw a hunter shoot an orang...

Audubon Celebrates a Huge Step Towards Protecting the Seal River Watershed

On April 17, 2026, the Seal River Watershed Alliance, the Manitoba government, and the government of Canada released a joint proposal to designate one of our planet’s largest intac...

From lemur twins to tiger sightings: The wildlife stories bringing hope this week

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Everglades Restoration Project Ongoing for 20-Plus Years Sees Huge Rewilding Success

A huge area of the Everglades that was drained in an attempt to convert it to suburbia has been restored to a somewhat native ecosystem after 2 decades of reverse-landscape enginee...

Five 'missing' bird species were rediscovered in 2025, offering hope to conservationists

With the new changes, the overall number of “lost” birds, as defined in a 2022 study, dropped to 120 from the 163 listed when the list was first published.