Wildlife conservation

Wildlife conservation is the practice of protecting wild species and their habitats to maintain healthy wildlife species or populations and to restore, protect or enhance natural ecosystems. Major threats to wildlife include habitat destruction, degradation, fragmentation, overexploitation, poaching, pollution and climate change. The IUCN estimates that 27,000 species of the ones assessed are at risk for extinction. Expanding to all existing species, a 2019 UN report on biodiversity put this estimate even higher at a million species. An increasing number of ecosystems on Earth containing endangered species are disappearing. To address these issues, there have been both national and international governmental efforts to preserve Earth's wildlife.

Wildlife Conservation Media

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  Ankeny Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.

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  A forest burned for agriculture in southern Mexico.

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  Confiscated animal pelts from the illegal wildlife trade.

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  Pterapod shell dissolved in seawater adjusted to an ocean chemistry projected for the year 2100

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  Aerial view of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

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  Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)

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  Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis)

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  Red-cockaded Woodpecker (picoides borealis)

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  Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi)

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  Non-invasive monitoring of the dhole is crucial for knowledge about its conservation status.