The red-cockaded woodpecker was first listed as an endangered species in 1973. The department says the species has benefitted from conservation efforts from partners and private landowners.

By modifying reproductive cells from domestic chickens, researchers can insert DNA from wild bird species, like the red junglefowl, and eventually create offspring with enhanced genetic traits.

The little bird, whose red is confined to a mere dot on the male’s head, was the first bird placed on the Endangered Species List. More than 50 years later, its numbers have swelled from just ...

(CN) — Federal wildlife officials removed the red-cockaded woodpecker from the endangered species list, a decision some conservationists feared came prematurely. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (AP) — The endangered red wolf can survive in the wild, but only with “significant additional management intervention,” according to a long-awaited population viability ...

Four American red wolf puppies were born at the St. Louis Zoo Sears Lehmann, Jr. Wildlife Reserve, marking a milestone for the endangered species. These babies are paw-sitively adorable.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a new long-range plan, and if it works, the red wolf could be removed from the federal endangered species list in roughly 50 years. For NPR News, I'm ...

A litter of six red wolf pups, a highly endangered species of which there are only about two dozen in the wild, was born at the Great Plains Zoo in South Dakota on Thursday. Latest U.S.

Bangladesh’s first-ever red list of plant species shows the country has lost seven species in the last century and now risks losing at least another five. Researchers involved in the assessments ...

The red-cockaded woodpecker was first listed as an endangered species in 1973. The department says the species has benefitted from conservation efforts from partners and private landowners.

FILE - A red wolf crosses a road on the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, Thursday, March 23, 2023, near Manns Harbor, N.C. The endangered red wolf can survive in the wild, but only with ...