Ricardo Laureano suspected there was something special about the elkhorn corals in the El Eco reef, in northern Puerto Rico. In his 16 years of protecting and monitoring their growth, the coral worker ...

Sea turtles that nest in Montserrat migrate and feed in the waters of multiple Caribbean countries and territories—according ...

Puerto Rico is a diverse island filled with beautiful beaches, lush rainforests, colorful, colonial-style buildings, and ...

The St. Croix parrot could have been a subspecies or related species to the Puerto Rican parrot. The Puerto Rico parrot is rare, and now an endangered species due to many factors but mainly human ...

U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow for the District of Puerto Rico added, “The illegal trafficking of wildlife threatens the survival of many endangered species.” The sentencing highlights the continued ...

Due to its long isolation from the African mainland, the islands are home to many endemic species. In 2012 ... the U.S.

has announced a proposal to list three subspecies of giraffe as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and a further two species as threatened. If finalized, this would see all five ...

Giraffe populations are in trouble — and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday proposed listing three subspecies of the tall animals as endangered and two species as threatened under ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A critically endangered species of leopard has died at a Southern California zoo. Zoya, a 21-year-old Amur leopard, died of old age at 21 at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens ...

The giraffe population has dwindled to a point where the species should be protected under federal endangered species laws, U.S. wildlife officials said Wednesday, signaling what would be the ...