1. Biodiversity and zoo conservation biology -- 2. Protecting species and habitats -- 3. Zoos in focus: public exhibition or conservation -- 4. Keeping animals in captivity -- 5. Viable captive ...

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 ...

Bronx Zoo's unhappy elephant "Happy" inside the zoo's Asia Habitat in New York. She's one of many individual animals harmed in the name of species conservation. Happy, an elephant who has been kept at ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) broke ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Conservation biologist Reshu Bashyal highlights gaps in Nepal’s implementation of CITES regulations, leading to ineffective protection measures.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the introduction to his new book, conservation biologist David Shiffman quotes Senegalese forestry engineer and conservationist Baba Dioum: “In ...

Peter Leimgruber has been named the director of conservation and science at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI). In this new role, he is responsible for planning, ...

Kids growing up in the concrete jungle of Pittsburgh are nearly 400 miles away from the ocean. But for David Shiffman, the distance made the ocean feel more magical. "There's something about the ocean ...

As nature reels towards a hotter, drier, harsher future, new conservation tools—seed banks and frozen zoos, gene editing and assisted gene flow—hold promise to help struggling animal and plant ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Conservation Biologist Benji Studt spent Tuesday speaking out against the plans to bulldoze parts of Jonathan Dickinson State Park and replace it with golf courses and ...

Smithsonian researcher Brian Gratwicke and colleagues describe how emerging technology aided the remarkable rediscovery of four amphibian populations thought to have vanished from Panama’s mountain ...

Conservation biologist Reshu Bashyal highlights gaps in Nepal’s implementation of CITES regulations, leading to ineffective protection measures. Nepal’s transition to a federal system has brought ...