Like many student volunteers, the kids in the group Town Belt Kaitiaki look after their neighborhood parks — planting trees, weeding, clearing paths. But they also do something less common: ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

Some endangered species have been saved in the nick of time, right before extinction. And their populations are growing through breeding programs. The problem is many of these species don't have a ...