Wildlife & Conservation
Jurassic the green sea turtle swims back into the Atlantic
A 215-pound turtle found stranded in Florida has been nursed back to health and returned to the ocean wearing a satellite tracker.
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Wildlife & Conservation
Wildlife & Conservation
Spider monkeys are thriving again on Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula
Decades after they vanished from the area, camera traps show wild spider monkeys back on the Nicoya Peninsula, the fruit of a long-running reintroduction.
Wildlife & Conservation
Wild horses are born on Kazakhstan’s steppe for the first time in 200 years
Two Przewalski's horse foals have arrived at a reintroduction centre in central Kazakhstan, the first new generation of wild horses there in two centuries.
Wildlife & Conservation
More than 100,000 turtles come ashore to nest in a single night in Mexico
Oaxaca's Playa Escobilla has seen another vast arribada of olive ridley turtles, taking this season's total past 465,000.
Wildlife & Conservation
A tiny wallaby is found on the Kimberley mainland after 50 years
Rangers and scientists have confirmed two populations of the nabarlek, Australia's second-smallest wallaby, in places it had not been recorded for half a century.
Wildlife & Conservation
An otter returns to New York’s Bronx River after a century away
A trail camera has recorded the first river otter on the once heavily polluted Bronx River since the early 1900s.
Wildlife & Conservation
In Borneo, villagers earn more photographing wildlife than hunting it
A scheme in West Kalimantan pays farmers for verified wildlife photos, and two villages have since banned hunting.
Wildlife & Conservation
Kakapo have their best breeding season on record, with 90 chicks
A bumper rimu fruit crop helped New Zealand's flightless parrot raise more young in one season than in its first 16 years of recovery.
Wildlife & Conservation
Bolivia’s tilcayo is the first new wild cat species in over a century
Genome sequencing has confirmed a small spotted cat from the Yungas cloud forests near La Paz as a species of its own.
Wildlife & Conservation
South Sudan’s giraffes turn out to have a healthy gene pool
DNA from Nubian giraffes in Boma and Badingilo national parks shows high genetic diversity and little inbreeding, making them a stronghold for the subspecies.