Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. The much larger common ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Thanks to years of campaigning by wildlife conservation groups, it’s widely known that Africa’s ...

WASHINGTON— A federal court approved an agreement today that requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine by July 27, 2028, whether the common hippopotamus should be protected under the ...

WASHINGTON— Animal protection and conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for missing its deadline to decide whether the common hippopotamus should be protected under the U.S ...

Zambia plans to slaughter 2,000 hippopotamuses to control overpopulation, officials said Wednesday, as conservationists lashed the scheme as a ploy to make money from trophy hunters. An official at ...

Thanks to years of campaigning by wildlife conservation groups, it’s widely known that Africa’s elephants and rhinos are threatened by the trade in their valuable tusks and horns. Laws and regulations ...