Your recently imported ornamental tree might have a stowaway spider or lizard hidden in its branches, a recent study warns.

“We regret that we must file this lawsuit, but the world famous and critically imperiled ghost orchid is out of time,” said George Gann, executive director at The Institute for Regional Conservation. ...

In 2024, Hong Kong officials made about 550 seizures of endangered plant and animal species, including live orchids, one of the most threatened plants on earth, and American ginseng, which is ...

Red-listed plants can be seen in the capital’s natural protected spaces, including in the Losiny Ostrov national park, as ...

In 2004 the Center petitioned to push for real protection for the orchid, and finally, in 2015 — thanks to a landmark agreement between the Center and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — the plant ...

Since joining the Smithsonian in 2011, she’s written stories about endangered orchids, marine parasites and a “wetland of the future” that mimics the world of 2100. (Photo courtesy of ...

The enchantingly beautiful native orchid is, tragically, one of Britain’s most endangered wildflowers, but it’s still possible to see them if you look in the right places, says Ben Jacob, author of ...

“It’s hard for the layperson to tell a legal cactus from an endangered one, whereas it’s pretty obvious a rather colourful lizard found on a pot plant in Britain should not be there,” they ad ...