A 5.1m long finned pilot whale Globicephala melas washed up on Dollar Bay, 2 kms south of Duncannon on the south coast of Ireland on Sunday, 22 November 2009.

THE all-Wales ambitions of a wildlife gardening project rest on the fickleness of the Welsh voting public

This whaling season, the whalers are planning to kill 50 humpback whales - this would break a four decade ban on hunting humpbacks and has ramifications for Australia's thriving whale watching industry.

The ice chunk, measuring some 2,300 feet long with an estimated depth of more than 1,000 feet, caused a stir when it was sighted by experts based on Australia's remote Macquarie Island.

About 200 rhino have reportedly been killed by poachers in Zimbabwe over the last three years, and wildlife officials warn that international and regional poaching syndicates are benefiting from local cooperation

Since man first touched the moon and brought pieces of it back to Earth, scientists have thought that the lunar surface was bone dry. But new observations from different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called "unambiguous evide

The disagreement between biologists and Inuit hunters over the number of polar bears in Nunavut's Baffin Bay region will take centre stage again this week when territorial wildlife regulators consider a new request to reduce the annual hunting quota in

French President Nicolas Sarkozy accused Iran's leader of "blackmail" Wednesday for suggesting a prisoner exchange might allow a young French academic to return home after she was arrested in Iranian postelection protests.

A man using a metal detector in a rural English field has uncovered the largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard ever found -- an "unprecedented" treasure that sheds new light on history, archaeologists said

The mass breeding of India's endangered Olive Ridley turtles could be under threat by iron ore and oil carried in a cargo ship that capsized off India's east coast, a conservationist said on Friday.