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Malaysia’s last male rhino is fading fast, officials say

Mongabay.com 24 May 2019

Better than sex? For hard-to-breed rhinos, technology strives for a solution

Jim Tan 28 Mar 2019

Indonesia investigates mass shark deaths at captive-breeding facility

Jay Fajar, M Ambari 22 Mar 2019
Romeo the Sehuenca water frog. Photo by Robin Moore, Global Wildlife Conservation.

Romeo finally found his Juliet, and an endangered frog has new prospects for survival

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2019

Is captive breeding the answer to Indonesia’s songbird crisis?

Nadine Freischlad 25 Dec 2018

The long journey to saving the Sumatran rhino, via Borneo (commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 20 Dec 2018

First wild Sumatran rhino in Borneo captured for breeding campaign

Basten Gokkon 29 Nov 2018
A Sumatran rhino in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Face-to-face with what may be the last of the world’s smallest rhino, the Bornean rhinoceros (insider)

Jeremy Hance 4 Nov 2018

Indonesian government puts off Sumatran rhino IVF program

Basten Gokkon 10 Oct 2018

The rhino reckoning

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2018

The great rhino U-turn

Jeremy Hance 28 Sep 2018

A herd of dead rhinos

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2018

1984: the meeting that changed everything for Sumatran rhinos

Jeremy Hance 20 Sep 2018

Pangolins on the brink as Africa-China trafficking persists unabated

Sharon Guynup 8 May 2018

Animal trainers are teaching wildlife to conserve themselves

Linda Lombardi 10 Apr 2018
Radiated Tortoise Hatchling (Astrochelys radiata). Madagascar’s radiated tortoises have all but disappeared from their island home due to habitat loss, hunting for their meat, and collection for the pet trade. The females lay from three to 12 eggs that resemble ping pong balls. The hatchlings have beautiful, roundish shells, and at 1½ inches, are miniature versions of their 35 pound parents. Photo &copy Julie Larsen Maher / WCS.

Baby photos of 10 of the world’s rarest turtles from the zoo trying to save them

Avishai Shuter, Don Boyer, Julie Larsen Maher 26 Jan 2018

U.S. zoos learn how to keep captive pangolins alive, helping wild ones

Linda Lombardi 5 Jan 2018

Glimmer of hope as Malaysia’s last female Sumatran rhino shows signs of recovery

Basten Gokkon 27 Dec 2017

Malaysia’s last female Sumatran rhino falls ill

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2017

Worst-case scenario: There could be only 30 wild Sumatran rhinos left

Jeremy Hance 7 Nov 2017

Booming legal Amazon wildlife trade documented in new report

Claire Salisbury 6 Oct 2017

China sends first pandas to Indonesia under captive-breeding agreement

Basten Gokkon 29 Sep 2017
Red lechwe. Photo by Ian Restall/Wikipedia

Apply Animal Welfare Act rules to recreational hunting, says advocacy group

Genevieve Belmaker 6 Sep 2017

Inflated quotas for captive-bred wildlife in Indonesia may aid traffickers: report

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2017

Footprints in the forest: The future of the Sumatran rhino

John Cannon 23 Jun 2017

Field Notes: Reinvigorating wild parrot populations with captive birds

Elizabeth Devitt 17 May 2017

Controversial policy could spur tiger trade in China

Sharon Guynup 10 Mar 2017

Poachers kill rhino at French zoo

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Mar 2017

A Christmas Miracle? Perhaps someday

Caitlin Looby 6 Mar 2017

Scimitar-horned oryx return to the Sahara nearly two decades after going extinct in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2017

The clouded leopard: conserving Asia’s elusive arboreal acrobat

Linda Lombardi 9 Feb 2017

Bright lights, big city, tiny frog: Romer’s tree frog survives Hong Kong

Asher Elbein 3 Feb 2017

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