FOR this conservationist, there is only one way to start her day - by hanging out with leopards. Babette De Jonge, 50, founded Wild Cats World in 2010 to help conserve endangered big cats, such as leopards, black-footed cats and African...

What is “the environment”? Well, it’s everything, and it’s everywhere, including you and me. Just about every part of human civilization depends on a healthy and stable environment. Yet, human activity is causing pollution, climate...

Environmental Law (Intro)

The Endangered Species Act

In this video we'll learn about how human activity has a negative impact on the Earth because of burning fossil fuels, deforestation and creating waste.

This live-action video program is about the term endangered species. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word endangered species through use of video footage, photographs,...

A conversation with Chris Potter, a Senior Research Scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

In this video, students will learn about important terms in biology, including the definitions of living and non-living, life cycles, endangered species, and extinct species. The video breaks down these concepts and provides examples to...

In this video, students will learn about different biomes and habitats in the natural world. They will explore the tundra, forests, deserts, grasslands, chaparral, and aquatic biomes, discovering the unique plants and animals that call...

You can probably name quite a few endangered species - polar bear, blue whale and black rhino are just a few. But there are many more that don’t get so much attention - there are currently around sixteen and a half thousand animals and...

Students will explore the notion of resource conservation, and identify the differences between renewable and non-renewable resources. Some of the ways our environment may be harmed via pollution, deforestation, species extinction, and...

In this video transcript, the teacher explains how to make a persuasive opinion essay easy to read by organizing ideas and evidence into paragraphs. They discuss the importance of topic sentences and avoiding cramming too much...

New ReviewScientists at Britain’s Chester Zoo have produced a new vaccine that protests young elephants from a potentially lethal disease. Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, or EEHV, can kill animals within 24 hours. The jab will help them...

Blanding's turtles are usually dark grey in colour with a brown to black shell and a distinctive bright yellow neck. But these pigmentless hatchlings, born at an incubation lab in Kanata, have blood red eyes, pink skin and almost white...

Last November, the Montreal Botanical Garden received 57 exotic plants that were seized at the border as they were being smuggled into Canada. Six were identified as protected species.

US-Mexico border wall will go along southern edge of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument - an area of exceptional beauty.

Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, with the Natural Resources Defense Council, has hope that, despite a damning UN report outlining the near future extinction of one million animal species, humanity can avert disaster by pressing their elected...

A camera caught the "incredible" moment a rare Rothschild giraffe arrived into the world on Tuesday. New mum Dagmar delivered her two-metre-tall male calf at Chester Zoo, England, after a 15-month pregnancy. The zoo released some footage...

Here's how the species came to be in such deep trouble.

A new report from the World Wildlife Fund of Canada has found that Canada's wildlife has suffered a steep decline over the past 40 years

Throngs of onlookers travelled to the mouth of the Amazon River near Afuá, in the Brazilian state of Pará to witness the release of an endangered species of turtle endemic to the region. This is the 41st release since the Brazilian...

Throngs of onlookers travelled to the mouth of the Amazon River near Afuá, in the Brazilian state of Pará to witness the release of an endangered species of turtle endemic to the region. This is the 41st release since the Brazilian...

Throngs of onlookers travelled to the mouth of the Amazon River near Afuá, in the Brazilian state of Pará to witness the release of an endangered species of turtle endemic to the region. This is the 41st release since the Brazilian...

Noi Psaroudaki, a veterinarian at the Attica Zoological Park in Athens, says a rare male pygmy hippo born earlier this year is doing well — and giving hope to conservationists aiming to increase the population of this endangered species.