Browse Missouri's wildlife restoration success stories, including the American burying beetle and hellbenders.
Learn about multi-agency efforts to restore this colorful, ecologically important insect to Missouri’s prairie landscape.
In 2011, the Missouri Department of Conservation reintroduced the first group of elk onto Peck Ranch CA in south-central Missouri.
Learn about coordinated efforts to reverse Missouri's hellbender decline and save the Ozark hellbender species.
To restore Missouri's declining prairie chicken population, the Department works with landowners where prairie-chicken restoration efforts are underway.
The Missouri Species and Communities of Conservation Concern Checklist lists all of our rarest species and natural communities.