About 100 miles from Galveston, Flower Garden Banks is home to some of the healthiest coral communities in the world. Some unlikely allies came together to help expand protections, but will it be enough?

It seemed like an easy crime to stop: protected Indonesian rainforest, cut for coffee farms. But a globalized economy can undermine even the best-laid plans.

Conservationists saw the 6-year-old brown bear as a symbol of hope. Villagers saw him as a menace. Then he turned up dead.

Michael Savage used his position at San Francisco’s Presidio to stir up a controversy over Japanese American internment.

A decade ago, scientists worried the lion could go extinct in Kenya by 2020. But today the area’s lion population is thriving thanks to an extraordinary group.

Over the past 14 years, Martin Guth has built a monopoly on some of the world’s rarest birds. Will his secretive organization ultimately help put more parrots in the wild, as he says or—push them closer to extinction?

John Ackerman has spent millions procuring a majority of the known caves in Minnesota, which add up to dozens of miles of underground passageways and likely make him the largest cave owner in the U.S. He collects and charts them in the name of preservation, but his controversial methods have created many opponents.

Scientists in Brazil are trying to save the giant anteater from a growing threat: roads.

What’s at stake in the fight over development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? A caribou herd, and a culture that relies on it.

How a night of drunken mischief led to the death of a rare endangered fish and a rare prosecution.

The life and death of OR4, the patriarch of Oregon’s reintroduced wolves.

On a 650-mile trek, two adventurers faced danger and hardship—and saw how development could spoil an American icon.

On the relationship between conservation, British farmers, and a possible Brexit.

In Utah, an unlikely leader is looking to end the state’s land-use wars.

A story of medical ailments, family dynamics, and conservation work.

Checking up on an ambitious, controversial conservation initiative, 20 years later.

The diarist and photographer Peter Beard, known both for his series documenting a mass elephant starvation and for discovering the supermodel Iman on a Nairobi street, reflects on his life of “drugs, debt, and beautiful women” while recovering from being trampled by an elephant.