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Endangered Species

Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images/File via CNN Newsource

Trump administration opens endangered species' habitats to development

  • Jul 14
California Academy of Sciences

Academy of Sciences secures grant to help endangered sea stars

  • May 10
Peter Fretwell/British Antarctic Survey via AP

These species are now listed as endangered

  • Apr 9

Trump exempts oil drilling from environmental protection laws

  • Apr 2

Trump proposals could gut endangered protection, conservationists say

  • Mar 11

New jaguar spotted in Arizona points to progress in species' recovery

  • Dec 5, 2025

Man grabs sea turtle for photo in Hawaii, video shows

  • Nov 24, 2025

CA study finds surprising link between wildfires, bird populations

  • Nov 18, 2025

Latest Videos

3:07

Academy of Sciences secures grant to help endangered sea stars

  • May 10
2:33

Trump exempts oil drilling companies from the Endangered Species Act by invoking special powers

  • Apr 2
2:48

Trump proposals could gut endangered protection, conservationists say

  • Mar 11
2:30

CA study finds surprising link between wildfires, bird populations

  • Nov 17, 2025
3:35

Majestic milestone for a popular Houston Zoo resident

  • Aug 27, 2025
2:45

Bay Area students helping to restore threatened steelhead

  • Mar 11, 2025
0:32

Critically endangered whale spotted off coast of Marin Co.

  • May 28, 2024
2:24

Bay Area nature challenge turns into global competition

  • May 5, 2024

Latest Videos

3:07

Academy of Sciences secures grant to help endangered sea stars

  • May 10
2:33

Trump exempts oil drilling companies from the Endangered Species Act by invoking special powers

  • Apr 2
2:48

Trump proposals could gut endangered protection, conservationists say

  • Mar 11
2:30

CA study finds surprising link between wildfires, bird populations

  • Nov 17, 2025
3:35

Majestic milestone for a popular Houston Zoo resident

  • Aug 27, 2025
2:45

Bay Area students helping to restore threatened steelhead

  • Mar 11, 2025
0:32

Critically endangered whale spotted off coast of Marin Co.

  • May 28, 2024
2:24

Bay Area nature challenge turns into global competition

  • May 5, 2024

Latest Stories

3:35

Majestic milestone for a popular Houston Zoo resident

This Asian Elephant Awareness Month, we celebrate Thailand, the elephant, who is one of the oldest and longest residents at the Houston Zoo.

  • Aug 27, 2025
Colossal Biosciences

Dire wolf revived through biotech company's de-extinction process

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences said it has brought back the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct 10,000 years ago, through its de-extinction process.

  • Apr 9, 2025

Bay Area students helping to restore threatened steelhead

In a quiet stretch of Adobe Creek, a group of budding biologists are about to take stock of a species they're helping to save.

  • Mar 11, 2025

Monarch butterflies to be listed as a threatened species in US

Every winter, millions of monarch butterflies journey thousands of miles across North America to spend winters in the forests and mountains of central Mexico.

  • Dec 12, 2024
Gayle Laird/California Academy of Sciences via Bay City News

Endangered African penguin chick thriving after surgery at California Academy of Sciences in SF

The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco was able to save Iggie, an endangered African penguin chick after a slipped ankle tendon.

  • Oct 17, 2024