"endangered"

The number of Przewalskis horses in northwest Chinas Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region had grown to 487 by the end of 2020, according to the Xinjiang Wild Horse Breeding and Research Center.

"DOC has long suspected that the lush lowland rainforests around Fox and Franz Josef glaciers might be home to pekapeka and have had a few anecdotal sightings over the years, so its fantastic to now have this confirmed."

AS ONE of the last refuges of Indochinese tigers, Thailand is working to protect the endangered big cats from poachers.

Villagers in a remote Indonesian community disemboweled a critically endangered Sumatran tiger and then hung the big cat from a ceiling after it attacked a pair of locals, a conservation official said Monday.

Legalising trade in threatened species facilitates and strengthens corruption, opening the door to extinction