Stories by John Platt

Kenyans Reportedly Chewing "Potency" Herb into Extinction

How Eating Frog Legs Is Causing Frog Extinctions

Whitebark Pine Turned Down for Endangered Species List

Want to Conserve Bats? There's an App for That

Good News for 2 Rare Leopard Species [Video]

Deadly Rabbit Disease May Have Doomed Iberian Lynx

Last Wild Camels in China Could be Saved with Embryonic Transfer Technique Perfected in U.A.E.

Enormous, Endangered, Epileptic Loggerhead Turtle Gets MRI Brain Scan [Video]

Emergency Action Plan Aims to Help the World's Most Endangered Chimpanzee

News from the Brink: Good News for Tasmanian Devils, Puerto Rican Parrots and Southern Right Whales

Platypus Threatened by Climate Change

Polly Wanna a Date? Rare Parrot Needs a Mate [Video]

Arabian Oryx Makes History as First Species to Be Upgraded from "Extinct in the Wild" to "Vulnerable"

Farming Rats and Bees Could Solve Bushmeat Crisis in Africa, Experts Say

China's Yangtze Finless Porpoise Faces 80 Percent Decrease in 30 Years

Rare Northern White Rhino Dies of Old Age—and Then There Were 7...

Algal Neurotoxins Found in Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals

Hundreds of Rare Saiga Antelope Die in Kazakhstan (Again)

Citizen Scientists and Social Media Aim to Help Prevent Frog Extinctions

Rare All-White Kiwi Born in New Zealand Breeding Program

Updates from the Brink: A Plan for Bats, Oil-Spill Penguins and Branson's Lemurs

Ugandan Chimpanzees May Be Hunting Red Colobus Monkeys into Extinction

Vile: Illegal Trade in Bear Bile Flourishes throughout Asia

Extinction Likely for World's Rarest Bear Subspecies