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

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

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

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.

Malta has finally been forced to comply with European bird protection laws, following a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice which has declared that Malta has been breaching European law by allowing the spring hunting of quail and turtle

Tell the Obama Administration to end the trophy hunting of polar bears. Send your comment to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service supporting an urgent upgrade in international protection for the polar bear.

In some countries, collectors can still buy polar bear skin rugs, claws, skulls and other parts of these animals -- even as these beloved bears struggle for survival in a warming world.

It is believed to be one of the largest controlled killings of bears in Alberta and while the province says it was necessary to kill 12 black bears near Conklin earlier this week, many Albertans say the deaths were senseless and could have been avoided.

Scientists say they are baffled by the soaring number of whale shark sightings this summer in the northern Gulf of Mexico , an area where the huge polka-dotted fish have been a rare spectacle in the past.