Texas A&M herpetologist Lee Fitzgerald has been documenting the lizard’s decline in the Permian Basin since 1993. He's battling much of the oil and gas industry to get it listed as endangered.
Fewer than 200 of the birds remain in the wild. Every spring, they put on a vibrant mating display.
The blind, elusive Bone Cave harvestman was at the center of a right-wing attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act.
Thousands of years after they were wiped out from the area, an obsessed wildlife ecologist has found evidence that the bucktoothed critters are beginning to recolonize.
“It really is one of the greatest wildlife-conservation successes of our time here in Texas.”
Texas Country Reporter paid a visit to the world-class wildlife preservation center, where a rehabilitated Kemp’s ridley turtle made a return to the sea.
Ila Loetscher took costumed turtles on late-night TV and founded a nonprofit that has rescued thousands of the creatures.
Every year, dozens of Texans report sightings of this elusive cat. But scientists are increasingly skeptical that it’s here at all.
So is a little fish that swam along the San Marcos River.
These humble creatures don’t have the star power of ocelots and whooping cranes, but they’re just as crucial to their ecosystems.
From South Texas’s simple ocelot culverts to San Antonio’s pioneering land bridge, these passageways can reduce car accidents and help animals thrive.
Fewer than twenty red wolves remain in the wild. At Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, biologists are trying to change that.
Conservationist Adam Black roams the state looking for endangered flora, which he shares with researchers around the world.
One of the rarest birds in North America is making a comeback.
Long live the red wolf.
The critically endangered black rhino needs resources and efforts from humans to avoid extinction—and what's a better way to preserve an endangered species than auctioning off the right to kill one?
The colorful Attwater's Prairie Chicken, a bird that flourished in Texas a hundred years ago, is on the verge of extinction.
The drought threatening the state's whooping crane population highlights the importance of current conservation efforts in Wisconsin.
The endangered whooping crane is at the center of a lawsuit that could change the rights of water users in Texas.
Earlier this month, zoo officials found Madagascar Bigheaded turtle hatchlings in the zoo's lemur exhibit.
A number of the critically endangered sea turtles are being monitored by the National Resource Damage Assessment, which is studying how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted the animal is underway on Padre Island.
Getting up close and personal with the endangered whooping crane.
Twenty years after the first Earth Day celebration, environmentalists are once again trying to get Texans interested in saving the planet. There are good reasons why they may once again fail.
In darkest South Texas roam two of the world’s most endangered species—the black rhino and the Great White Hunter.
