Afghan authorities captured a rare snow leopard in the country’s mountainous northeast and were preparing to release it back into the wild after it reportedly killed dozens of livestock animals, a …
Hong Kong customs officers have confiscated 4.2 tonnes of dried shark skin from endangered species in a shipment from Thailand, resulting in the arrest of the director of a local …
Widespread throughout Buddhist communities worldwide, the practice involves “freeing” hundreds of millions of animals every year. An Asian golden weaver in a cage at Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh. Birds like …
There are just two northern white rhinos left in the entire world – and they’re both female. But now, their species has a chance at survival, as researchers have for …
London — Britain’s Devon and Cornwall police appealed for information from the public on Wednesday after seven giant tortoises were found dead in an English forest over the past two weeks. …
Rampant avian flu that has impacted millions of poultry birds and thousands of wild birds in the U.S. alone has now killed a polar bear for the first time ever …
Environmental watchdogs accused a Mexico-based startup Thursday of violating international trade law by selling a health supplement made from endangered totoaba fish to several countries including the U.S. and China. …
A golden mole that “swims” in sand has resurfaced in South Africa after 87 years in the wilderness when many specialists feared it had become extinct, researchers announced. Traces of …
An ultra-rare gigantic rat so big that it puts New York City’s subway-dwelling rodents to shame has been caught on camera for the first time. Uromys vika, a giant rat …
For more than 60 years, researchers have been unable to physically see a critically endangered animal known as one of the world’s most unusual mammals. But now, one of Attenborough’s …