An international team of marine scientists has identified and assessed major threats to marine megafauna, which are needed to ...

Gibbons, small apes closely related to humans, face severe threats to their survival. However, their evolutionary history has ...

Celebrate and look back at some of the groundbreaking achievements made by Smithsonian scientists this year. Mike Bock As global leaders in wildlife conservation, scientists from the Smithsonian ...

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A video is circulating on social media in which a leopard enters the backyard of a house where a child is playing, and a cat confronts the leopard and scares it away, protecting the child. The video ...

Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, are ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) – Researchers with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) and Aoteroa’s University of Otago compiled a special issue for the peer-reviewed Pacific Conservation Biology journal ...

Genevieve Carlton holds a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University and earned tenure at the University of Louisville. Drawing on over 15 years of experience in higher education, Genevieve ...

A lit-up panda display dazzles visitors under a brightly colored banner of flowers at ZooLights at the Smithsonian’s National ...

“Kim Luke, Rachel McConnell, and Aaron Sturtevant, all Wildlife and Fish Conservation Biology majors, are counting and measuring the various fish life of the Waterway. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis)” How ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The selection of topics for these public statements — two conservation-oriented and one more directed toward traditional biological research — ...

Celebrate Earth Optimism with live webinars April 21 and 22 Ashley Goetz Celebrate Earth Optimism with the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. This week, join our experts ...