Life revolves around water in this quiet fishing village in Brazil’s southern Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland. Here, a ...

The Atlantic tarpon migrates hundreds of miles along the US coast but the population has dropped as its mangrove habitats are damaged Fish species that undertake mammoth migrations through rivers, ...

Migratory species don’t travel with a passport, but they cross borders all the time. This makes the animals’ conservation a uniquely challenging, international effort. That effort needs a lot of work, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The weather is warming and the fish are swimming – some of them longer and ...

This post comes to PBS Nature from World Wildlife Fund (WWF). WWF and Nature are collaborating on a series of blog posts from WWF conservation scientists that will share the stories and motivations ...

A sweeping global report finds that migratory freshwater fish are in steep decline, with populations down roughly 81% since 1970. These species depend on long, connected rivers, but dams and human ...

CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil — In the wide, sandy stretches of Brazil’s Araguaia River, the piraíba, South America’s largest catfish, is a cornerstone of local fisheries. Fishers often recognize individual ...

For almost a century, migratory flyways have been a cornerstone of bird conservation. Knowing where these aerial highways are helps protect habitats and monitor species through carefully mapped routes ...

A billion-dollar program is unblocking millions of killer culverts across the nation to help fish get to spawning grounds. In the early 1900s, Hardy Creek was throttled by BNSF Railway, the United ...

Hidden beneath the surface of the world’s rivers, some of Earth’s great animal movements unfold – migrations that rival, in sheer biomass, the famous mass movements of zebra and wildebeest across the ...