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Photos: Projeto Tamanduá Very little is know about Silky anteaters, which make their home in the Amazon rainforest , other than the fact that they’re tiny, nocturnal, ant-loving, and of course, incredibly cute. But, in hopes of learning more about these fascinating little creatures, soon scientists will be venturing out into the jungles of Brazil to observe them in the wild–where they hope to find its population strong and stable, unlike those of the diminutive anteater’s

The Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary in India. Image credit: Raveesh Vyas India has had a system of wildlife sanctuaries since 1928

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Until the 20th century, the Palos Verdes peninsula—a small spit of land south of Los Angeles—was the only home of the blue butterfly Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis . Unchecked development, however, eroded this small habitat and nearly caused the extinction of the fickle butterfly .

Credit: Giant Salamander Protection International It’s polite to ask before eating the last cookie, or the last piece of cheese, or the last animal of its kind on Earth.

The greater sage-grouse was deemed to be “warranted but precluded” by the U.S.

Image credit: Andrew Zuckerman When Andrew Zuckerman , a renowned commercial photographer, turned his lens on animals, the result was a series of striking images that resonate with emotion. Collected in his book

Photo via The Cove The Cove has made a tremendous impact on people when it comes to raising awareness about the slaughter of dolphins and the dark story of whale meat in the fish market. It has changed lives, riled people up, won its Oscar , and now it just might turn into a new TV Series on Animal Planet starting this fall

photo: Kevin Walsh via flickr. You’ve probably heard the stat that extinction rates are currently somewhere between 100-1000 times historic levels, which is bad enough, but now the Guardian reports the head of the Species Survival Commission for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature says that we’ve “almost certainly” crossed the thresho…

Image credit: tibchris /Flickr Two tiger cubs were found dead in the Ranthambhore national park in India this weekend. Though an investigation is still under way, officials reported that early evidence suggests the cubs were poisoned…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image via HaPPi Like A HiPPo Happy – and very unusual – news! Delivered to a cheering crowd, two male calves were born in the north-eastern province of Surin to a 35-year-old mother named Phang Thong Khun. They’re the very first known male twins, and follow the birth of a set of female twins born in Thailand 15 years ago. But while the world celebrates their birth and they add to the very low count of elephants in Thailand, the boys aren’t out of the woods yet.