Heartwarming animal rescue and rehabilitation stories from around the world.
For the first time, 62 endangered San Francisco garter snakes raised at the San Francisco Zoo have been released into the wild in San Mateo County, with 130 more babies lined up for 2027.
Texas beaches hosted 697 Kemp’s ridley sea turtle nests in 2026, up 55% from last year. It’s the payoff of a bold 1978 plan to teach baby turtles a new home.
In a deep, water-filled crack in the desert — a place so small you could almost miss it on a map — one of the rarest fish on Earth just got a little less rare. On October 10, 2026, biologists … Read more
A brown pelican tangled in fishing line tapped on the door of a NOAA lab in Panama City, Florida. Biologists removed the hook in about ten minutes, and it flew away free.
After three years of searching and two surveys that turned up only dead adults, conservationists found larvae of the rare short-necked oil beetle on Pembrokeshire’s Castlemartin Range, proof that Wales’ only known population is still breeding.
Seven young California condors just joined the Yurok Tribe-led flock on California’s redwood coast, including San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s 200th bird released into the wild, in the same year a condor from this flock reached Oregon for the first time since 1904.
After 10+ years of empty nets, North Carolina biologists found 24 endangered Indiana bats in a maternity tree, while Indiana says its bats are slowly recovering from white-nose syndrome.
Once lost from most of its range, the American burying beetle just had a record-breaking year on Nantucket, and Ohio researchers caught the first beetles born at a new release site.
Six years ago, only seven red wolves were known in the wild and none were breeding. This spring, four wild families in North Carolina had 23 pups.
Loggerhead sea turtles laid a record 4,292 nests on Georgia beaches in 2026, up from just 358 in 2004. Here’s how volunteers, night patrols, and a clever fishing-net escape hatch helped.