New efforts to secure the nation's border pose serious threats to wildlife..

With a latte-coloured coat artfully sprinkled with rosettes of black spots, golden eyes and a long, white-tipped tail, this cat is one of the most magnificent on Earth. It is also one of the most elusive. Hated by livestock farmers (whose goats, calves

A Marsing, Idaho-area woman made a deal with authorities to relinquish 17 wolves, five bobcats, about 60 cats and an unknown number of dogs to avoid criminal charges of animal cruelty after she was accused of keeping them in deplorable living conditions.

His lithe frame at full stretch, an orang-utan attempts to spearfish in a river on Kaja Island, Borneo, mimicking what he has watched humans do. Time and again he plunges his "spear" - a simple stick - into the murky water. When his exertions prove

Angel could use some heavenly intervention from what may quickly become a hellish existence. The 6-year-old dachshund is one of a growing number of animals in Southwest Florida being given up for adoption - or abandoned - because their owners can no

The small crew of young technicians is ready for blood. Their last patient of the day, Josie Rose, sits on the floor of a brightly lit waiting room scratching her neck. If Josie Rose's blood type is a match, she will join California's only outpatient

They're crammed into the trailer of a truck designed to hold pigs, cows and chickens. Without food or water, they're driven across the Canadian and Mexican borders to slaughterhouses. Once there, some are stabbed repeatedly in the neck with a knife

Why do we keep giving thoroughbred horse racing a pass? Is it the tradition? The millions upon millions invested in the betting? Why isn't there more pressure to put the sport of kings under the umbrella of animal cruelty? The sport is

The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) says in its latest census report that the Nagarhole-Mudumalai-Bandipur-Wayanad reserve forests that straddle three states in the Nilgiris has about 266 tigers. The state governments of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and

The principal message Saturday at Long Island's first-ever conference on pit bulls was distilled in the words of a New York City lawyer: The predicament facing these canines does not really lie with the dogs, but with humans and how they treat them.