A captive breeding program has brought back the Iberian lynx from near extinction. Found in Spain and Portugal, this white-and-black-bearded cat, is slightly larger than a red fox, has black ear tufts and a beard that resembles a fox's.

Iberian Lynx, a big cat species, claws its way back from extinction

A recent study conducted by the European aerospace company Airbus suggests that when an asteroid is hurtling toward our planets, we could deploy large TV broadcasting satellites to deflect the space rock.

Defending Earth: Repurposing telecommunication satellites to protect Earth from asteroid collision

Absurdist-in-chief and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has struck again! Known for using Twitter to push out uncanny takes, Musk has now inspired confusion among many. In pure-Musk style, no one could decipher the tone of the Tweet wherein Musk suggested that dinosaurs wouldn’t have perished millions of years ago if they had access to spaceships.

Would dinosaurs be alive if they had spaceships? Tech mogul Elon Musk believes so

Conservationists in Chile are looking to re-populate the at-risk native rhea bird into its Patagonia region, after it was brought to near extinction locally as a result of illegal hunting.

At-risk rheas released into wild of Chile's Patagonia for repopulation

Environmentalists on Thursday rang alarm bells on the declining elephant populations across Africa, warning that one species was on the brink of extinction. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in its updated "Red List" of threatened species said that forest elephants in Africa are the worst-affected as their numbers have fallen more than 86 per cent in three decades.

Environmentalists raise concern as African elephants see massive decline

African elephants living in forests and savannas are increasingly threatened with extinction, the Red List of species in trouble showed on Thursday (March 25), as conservationists called for an urgent end to poaching.

African elephants face growing risk of extinction - Red List

World Wildlife Day: Alarming figures of species nearing extinction

Chilean scientists have rediscovered a species of frog last seen more than 80 years ago, prompting new calls for the conservation of its habitat in the far-flung Chilean desert.

Hall's water frog rediscovered by Chilean scientists

Herbivores face a higher risk of extinction than predators, whether they are mammals, birds or reptiles, according to an extensive study of 24,500 species both living and extinct that was published Wednesday.

Herbivores face higher extinction risk than predators: Study

It was feared that the Australian bushfires had killed at least 350 koalas. Turns out, it was a gross underestimation. At least 5000 koalas died during the recent Australian bushfires.

Thing of the past? Experts fear Australia's iconic koala could go extinct by 2050

A year-long parliamentary inquiry announced on Tuesday (June 30) that koalas will become extinct in Australia's most populous state by 2050 without significant intervention.

Koalas could become extinct in Australian state by 2050, says inquiry

A flutter of wings faster than the eye can see, a quick sip of nectar, and he vanishes from view. Once a common site in Mexico City but in 2020 a rarity in the sprawling metropolis.

Urban gardens in Mexico fight hummingbirds' extinction

A new study has said that there would be zero to few suitable coral habitats would be left in the earth by 2100.

New Study: No coral reefs by 2100

A zoo in San Andres Cholula in the Mexican state of Puebla is celebrating the arrival of three lion cubs. The cubs, two males and one female, were born at Parque Loro Zoo on January 10, and all three are in reportedly good health.

Mexico zoo celebrates birth of three lion cubs

Pollution needs to be cut into half and approximately one-third of the Earth needs to be protected by 2030 to save our biodiversity according to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

Only ten years to save world's biodiversity from extinction: UN

Nunu Jobe's life is focused on conservation. He grew up in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province and now spends most days tracking southern white rhino on foot while educating communities and schools on the importance of wildlife. In late August, veterinarians successfully harvested eggs from the last two surviving northern white rhinos, taking them one step closer to bringing the species back from the brink of extinction, scientists said.

S Africa's barefoot game ranger fights rhino poaching

For most of his life as a Samburu warrior, Lesaiton Lengoloni thought nothing of hunting giraffes, the graceful giants so common a feature of the Kenyan plains where he roamed.

Gentle giraffes threatened with 'silent extinction'

Relentless pursuit of economic growth, twinned with the impact of climate change, has put an "unprecedented" one million species at risk of extinction, scientists said on Monday in a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilisation to the natural world.

One million species risk extinction due to modern civilisation: Scientists

Abrupt disappearance of sparrows must be seen as an ecological indication to humans about forthcoming environmental menace

World Sparrow Day: Where have the birds gone?

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