Illegal wildlife trafficking is no longer underground: rhino horns, elephant ivory tusks, tiger bones, pangolin scales and live animals are being overwhelmingly sold in a lucrative and shockingly open criminal economy on social media platforms.
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The experiments involving the microscopic worm can shed light on Roundup’s effect on humans because the worm has genes which are similar to those in humans.
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In 2019, authorities discovered the corpse of a northern elephant seal on a beach near San Simeon, California. The animal had been shot in the head.
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The number of bears in the Pyrenees mountains separating France and Spain rose to 64 last year, including 16 cubs, animal rights activists said Thursday, heralding the strong revival of a population that had been threatened with extinction.
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At a Mexico City university campus, researchers are stringing mesh nets between trees, hoping to capture evidence that a rare bat has begun visiting its favorite plants in this metropolis of 9 million.
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The election of Joe Biden sparked a wave of optimism in wildlife advocacy organizations that the worst is over, but now that Biden is in office, there are growing concerns he may follow the precedent of recent Democratic administrations of failing to swing the pendulum far enough back toward the environment.
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Sea lions piled atop the docks of a small town 60 miles from the ocean – an early sign that this year will again be marked by the animals’ outsize appetite for endangered fish, and the first year fishery managers have the authority to kill them in large numbers.
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When bird-migration patterns turn the skies into a highway, brightly lit buildings give way to airborne roadkill. A group of nature enthusiasts hope local businesses will opt to change that.
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Forget dog or cat cafes, Shanghai’s animal cafe scene has expanded to include a wider — and more exotic — kingdom.
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Scientists warn that swift action is needed to revive the kelp forests that have faced destruction by extreme weather events and a hungry sea urchin population.
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Police and conservation officers were searching Friday for an unknown number of young crocodiles that escaped earlier in the week from a large breeding farm in South Africa.
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The world’s first dedicated platypus refuge will be established to rescue the unique Australian animals from climate change-fueled crises, as bushfires and drought increasingly threaten their habitat.
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The American West is in the grips of a consistent 40-year decline in butterfly populations, a trend researchers on Thursday said can be culled using expanded conservation as climate change makes the region increasingly drier and warmer.
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Animals in the Arctic face an uncertain future as global warming drives catastrophic sea ice loss, forcing polar bears and narwhals to change essential eating habits in ways that increase their risk of starvation.
Read moreBorneo’s orangutans have plummeted by more than 100,000 since 1999 amid increasing fatal conflicts with people and their jungle habitat shrinks thanks to the palm oil and paper industries.
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Capturing reed warblers from the wild, researchers were able to prove the birds’ ability.
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A koala has been rescued after causing a five-car pileup while trying to cross a six-lane freeway in southern Australia.
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Pablo Escobar and his Medellin Cartel are long dead, but at the drug kingpin’s former palace in Colombia his prized hippopotamus flourish today in the tropical countryside and wetlands surrounding what is now a theme park.
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Scientists from Madagascar and Germany say a newly discovered species of chameleon is a contender for the title of world’s smallest reptile.
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The U.S. Forest Service allows motorized recreation in the Clearwater National Forest, imperiling grizzly bears, elk, bull trout and wolverines, and has never done the environmental reviews necessary to allow such recreation, conservationists say in a lawsuit.
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