The forests of Java, an island in Indonesia, were once heavily populated by the eponymous Java tiger, a subspecies of Sumatran tiger. But, as a result of hunting and habitat loss, the cats began to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A March study shows that an apex predator thought to be extinct since the 1980s may still be prowling the Indonesian island of ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new report by the IUCN finds that two of the world’s most endangered species are still perilously close to extinction. Javan rhino (Rhinoceros ...

Today, more than 16,000 of Earth’s nearly two million documented species are currently classified as endangered – an all-time high. “The Wild Ones,” a 6-episode documentary series streaming Friday on ...