Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off fire ants. Florida grasshopper sparrow chicks peer up out of their ground ...

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly ...

The heroes who saved the world's last tigers Despite early conservation successes, by the 1990s the world's tiger population was under dire threat. In this beautifully photographed feature, National ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes can be their biggest advantages. Found across every continent except ...

The National Geographic Explorer dedicated her life not just to chimpanzees, but global conservation. Jane Goodall studied the chimpanzees of Gombe starting in 1960, making hers the longest field ...

The return of the iconic predators to the Golden State has been a quiet success story—but this month, state officials announced that they euthanized part of a pack that relied on killing cattle for ...

These 1,000-pound creatures travel in large herds and can smell water miles away. Now, the race is on to stop them from inundating Australia’s fragile ecosystems—one camel burger at a time. Weighing ...

A photograph of Asha from February 2023 shows her in a “capture box” at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico. This was the second time the endangered Mexican wolf, tagged F2754 ...

While on assignment in Romania, photographer Jasper Doest found himself uncomfortably close to a bear—leading to an image that captures tensions conservationists face in the region. Imagine being this ...

As Bertie Gregory remembers it, the seeds of his passion might have been sown in the fields of English farmers, near his childhood home, where an endless wildlife drama unfolded. He recalls spending ...