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Dehorning rhinos — often seen as a drastic step in conservation — has effectively curbed poaching in South Africa, according to a new study.

Wildlife rehabilitation is the process of nursing sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife back to health so that they can be returned to the wild.

When removing a top predator from an ecosystem causes a domino effect down the entire food chain, it's called a trophic cascade.

Brent is a marine ecologist and conservation biologist with Sonoma State University. Research in his lab seeks to determine the processes that affect the stability of coastal ecosystems. Brent’s research centers around coastal habitats like seagrass, salt marsh, and kelp (aka foundation species), which provide valuable ecosystem services that we depend on and are threatened […]

Sea otters are back, and their return is a breath of fresh air for the waters of Monterey Bay.

Orphaned sea otter pups face a harsh reality in the wild, but at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a groundbreaking rehabilitation program is giving them a second chance.

The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has been landless ever since they suffered the worst massacre in U.S. history in 1863. Over 150 years later, the Tribe has purchased their ancestral homeland with a vision to return it back to nature.

Passive acoustic monitoring — often simply called acoustic monitoring — is a tool used by ecologists and conservationists to study wildlife in their natural environment.

Building beaver dam analogs is restoring wetlands, slowing water flow, and creating the conditions needed for wildlife to return.

The mountain gorilla, a critically endangered subspecies of the eastern gorilla, has faced a dramatic decline over the past century. By the early 20th century, their population had dwindled due to habitat loss, poaching, and the spread of diseases from humans. At its lowest point in the 1980s, the mountain gorilla population was reduced to fewer than 250 individuals, with their survival hanging by a thread.