Stories by John Platt

Vulture restaurants are helping to save critically endangered birds of prey

Deforestation may have killed off rare bat in Ireland

The Denver Zoo is helping to save Peru's critically endangered Lake Titicaca frog

Sea urchins bred to eat invasive seaweed in Hawaii

Rat eradication program begins in Galapagos Islands

Asian cheetahs racing toward extinction

70 percent of Turkey's birds are headed toward extinction

Has an infectious cancer doomed Tasmanian devils to extinction?

Rhino poaching hit an all-time high in 2010

Shark-finning gangsters assault celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay

Six Australian birds declared extinct, although some could have been saved

Lack of food drives human-grizzly conflicts—and human-grizzly fatalities

Another record year for manatee deaths

As white-nose syndrome wipes out little brown bats, groups petition for emergency protection

Victory for sharks: U.S. bans shark finning

Poaching, habitat loss taking toll on Bornean clouded leopard

Wolverines denied endangered species protection as climate change shrinks their habitat

Mistletoe and other species face extinction as U.K. apple orchards disappear

More polar bear news than you can shake a rapidly melting icicle at

Humans are more at risk from diseases as biodiversity disappears

Hawaii admits possible defeat to invasive species, researches "hybrid ecosystem" instead

Tracking a rare tortoise? There's an app for that

Russia's tiger forum: Our last chance to save tigers from extinction?

SEGA and Sonic step in (briefly) to protect endangered hedgehogs