The Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend has announced the addition of three rare Amur Leopard cubs, born to resident leopards Pearl and Sergei at the zoo March 20. Amur Leopards are the world’s rarest big cat, considered critically endangered with only an estimated 70 remaining in the wild and just over 100 in captivity. Wild …read more.

The recent death of one of only six remaining Irrawaddy river dolphins in the Mekong River, Laos, is a poignant reminder of the desperate situation these critically endangered animals are facing. Cambodian villagers discovered the carcass of the female dolphin April 1 in Phnom Penh. She was thought to have been one of the oldest …read more.