Environment

18 donkeys in Spain's Doñana National Park are helping prevent wildfires by grazing on dry vegetation that can fuel dangerous blazes.

The endangered Obô giant snail, found only on São Tomé and Príncipe, is the focus of conservation efforts to protect the rare species.

Fishermen in Australia rescued a 220-pound loggerhead sea turtle after finding it tangled in abandoned fishing rope and floating buoys.

Mozambique’s Zinave National Park welcomes nine female white rhinos, helping establish wild-breeding populations after decades without the species.

A $14.8 million investment will fund river and lake restoration projects across 26 states, improving fish habitats, water quality and local communities.

Around 5,000 flamingo chicks are seen at Lake Tuz, showing signs of recovery at the Turkish salt lake after five years of severe drought.

Asia's vultures recover after drug ban following a 99.9% population crash linked to cattle painkiller diclofenac.

Scientists named 1,121 new marine species in a single year, including a deep-sea ghost shark and a worm that lives inside a glass sponge.

The Outer Banks just had its best leatherback year on record – four nests of the giant endangered turtle, topping the whole previous decade.

French Polynesia will fully protect 200,000 square miles of ocean, about twice the size of Arizona, in one of the largest marine reserves anywhere on Earth.