RESCUERS have saved 48 pilot whales and five dolphins that had beached themselves on Tasmania's King Island late yesterday. A team of more than 150 people including seasoned whale rescuers and dozens of King Island residents worked through today in an

The materialistic approach to resource utilisation often proves harmful. Similarly, our natural resources are being exploited in such a way that they are fast disappearing into nothingness. No different is the case with some falcons in our part of the

Pakistan is home to two of the world's big cats, the common leopard (Panthera pardus) and the snow leopard (Uncia uncia). The high mountains of the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindukush are home to the rare and elusive snow leopard

For about a century, the Balkan lynx, an iconic wild cat, has wavered on the brink of extinction. "The lynx has no natural enemy except man," said Georgi Ivanov, an ecologist running a

Macedonia is trying to save the Balkan lynx, a symbol of the country, a victim of poachers and endangered with a population now reduced to a few dozen individuals in all in the region.

Hundreds of Palestinian schoolchildren used to come to the Gaza Zoo every week, but not now. Tanks rolled through the area during the Israeli offensive. Much of the zoo was badly damaged, most of the animals died. Cage after cage lies empty. Ostr

During Canada's annual war on seals, hundreds of thousands of individuals are killed for their skin in the most horrific ways imaginable. Seals stand no chance against club-wielding trappers who are dead-set on taking their fur, and they can only look

Twenty trumpeter swans will be released at Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge near Dardenelle.

Species are adapting slowly to climate change and 'assisted colonisation' can play a vital role in helping wildlife to survive in a warming world.

The Arctic Ocean is facing changes unparalleled on the planet. Over the last 100 years, the Arctic has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the planet. Since the 1950s, an area of sea ice about half as big as the land area of the United States has been