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A female white rhinoceros with a six-month old baby in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve adjacent to Kruger National Park, South Africa. (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dehorning rhinos — to save them

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Cultivated Tiehm's buckwheat is seen at Ioneer's Tiehm's buckwheat conservation greenhouse on May 8, 2024 in Gardnerville, Nevada. Tiehm's buckwheat, a rare and endangered wildflower endemic to the Silver Peak Range in Esmeralda County, Nevada grows beside Rhyolite Ridge, the site of a proposed lithium mine. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

A lithium mine versus a rare flower

Matthew Rozsa
A wild jaguar walking on a river bank (Getty Images/Jami Tarris)

Rare wild jaguar found in Arizona

Matthew Rozsa
Cactus ferruginous pygmy owl (Photo by Sky Jacobs)

Lawsuit seeks to protect threatened owls

Matthew Rozsa
North American Wolverine 1256832379 (Getty Images/slowmotiongli)

Wolverines listed as threatened species

Matthew Rozsa
An axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), also known as a Mexican salamander or a Mexican walking fish. (Arno Burgi/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Mexico urges folks to adopt axolotls

Rae Hodge
Parish's Daisy (Erigeron parishii) (Photo courtesy of Chelsea Vollmer/USFS)

Rare wildflowers protected in California

Matthew Rozsa
Orangutan (Getty Images/Manoj Shah)

Orangutans are being pushed to the brink

Assaf Levy
The California Condor is the largest bird in North America. They are endangered species. (Getty Images/Weili Li)

Condors return, lead poisoning persists

Juliet Grable - The Revelator
US Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) (L) listens alongside members of the House Freedom Caucus during a news conference on the debt limit at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2023. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Boebert brings fetus photo to hearing

Samaa Khullar
Emperor Penguins in Antarctica (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

The great threat emperor penguins face

Stephanie Jenouvrier - The Conversation
Atlantic Salmons in a river (Getty Images)

Salmon farming’s dirty business

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Forest landscape in the vicinity of Labé in March 2008, Guinea-Conakry (François GOUDIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Another dam(n) extinction

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Megachile pluto, aka Wallace's Giant Bee (WikiCommons/Naturalis Biodiversity Center)

The parable of the world’s largest bee

Oliver Milman - Undark
Northern Spotted Owl (Getty Images/Greg Vaughn/VWPics)

We moved to paradise and found a war

Alison Clement
Demosponges in a coral reef in the Caribbean Sea (Getty Images)

Cruises returns, but at what cost?

Kelly Heber Dunning - The Revelator
Chinchilla (iStock/Getty)

A chinchilla relocation effort stalls

Ed Stoddard - Undark
A young elephant from Asia stands near his mother in its enclosure at the Pairi Daiza Zoo in Brugelette, eastern Belgium, on August 15, 2019 (Photo by Philippe HUGUEN / AFP) (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images) (Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images)

Life after wildlife trafficking

Danielle Beurteaux - The Revelator
Humpback Whale parent and calf (Getty Images)

Whales face new and emerging threats

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Atlantic Salmons in a river (Getty Images)

Our last, best chance to save salmon

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
A sad fish (Getty Images)

Fish are gobbling up plastic

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=1466555'>CathyKeifer</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

New clues to help monarch conservation

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
This orchid, (Phragmipedium lindleyanum), found on top of the Grensgebergte mountain is rare in Suriname. (Trond Larsen)

The species declared extinct in 2020

John R. Platt - The Revelator
(Getty/Andrew Harrer/Schroptschop)

12 Trump attacks on the environment

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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