A recent post on the culling of rabbits on Robin Island, prompted a quick look at news items on culling over the last month. This revealed a variety of motivations for culling, very different numbers culled and a range in the opposition to the culls.

The Cross River Gorillas have been named the rarest subspecies of Gorilla, and just recently, the first professional footage has been captured according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. These gorillas live in the densest part of the jungle in

A total of twenty female Iberian lynx have been selected for the next season of captive breeding of this cat, representing the largest number of breeding since it started this program earlier this decade

We issued a briefing today, Saturday, 26 December, which reveals the Hunting Act is working well and actually being used more than some other legislation to tackle wildlife crime.

Every year, an estimated 1.5 million deer are killed by collisions with cars. The expression "like a deer caught in the headlights" explains very well what happens to too many deer all the time. The deer only wish to cross the road to get to food, water

A wildlife park is celebrating the arrival of one of the smallest kiwi born in captivity, but the tiny bird is not out of the woods yet.

Announcing the release of the largest update of fur farm addresses in nearly 15 years

First it was the striped rabbit, then the long-whiskered rodent and a bald songbird. Now, the latest animal to be discovered in the rocky forests of Laos and Vietnam is the limestone leaf warbler, a small greenish-olive bird with a yellow breast and

New Zealand -- Some 125 pilot whales died in New Zealand after stranding on the beach over the weekend - but vacationers and conservation workers Sunday managed to coax 43 others back out to sea.

The Authors Rev. Andrew Linzey, director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a member of the faculty of theology at the University of Oxford, is the author of "Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics."