"Traditional Chinese medicine has a sustainability problem." Nations forge powerful alliance with new policy to safeguard ...

National Panda Day highlights global conservation efforts to protect pandas from habitat loss and possible extinction.

"It is North American turtles that are a status symbol." The turtles are protected by the Convention on International Trade ...

China is home to about 3,100 species of terrestrial vertebrates and 130,000 named insect species. It also has more than 38,000 species of higher plants, including over 4,000 rare and endangered ...

Listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN the species lives in one small isolated area: Java's Ujung Kulon peninsula. The species has a slender skull, with teeth that are more specialized for ...