A project to capture American signal crayfish on a Scottish loch has caught more than a million of the creatures.

Four rare, northern white rhinos, half the known population left in the world, will leave a Czech zoo for Africa on Saturday in a last-ditch bid to save the species from extinction.

CROC hunter Steve Irwin's dream of opening an Aussie zoo in Las Vegas is to be realised, three years after his death. Representatives for the Irwins met Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman last week to discuss resurrecting their proposal for a US Australia Zoo

Increasing numbers of grey herons are nesting in Hartsholme Country Park in Lincolnshire. An estimated 24 chicks were raised successfully last year; a clear indicator of the improving local environment.

Permanent legal protection for the Irish hare would signal its vulnerable status and help wider conservation measures.

Global warming is threatening polar bears as it melts their icy Arctic habitat, Norway's environment minister said .

A RARE white-tailed sea eagle has been found dead in Co Kerry, with experts saying it is likely the bird was poisoned.

Radiation has affected animals living near the site of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster far more than was previously thought, a study showed Wednesday, challenging beliefs that local wildlife was on the rebound.

A teacher at Bellarine Secondary College in Drysdale, near Geelong, arrived at the school on Sunday to find animals from its agriculture and horticulture program butchered and strung up.

Climate change is causing a number of widespread British birds to lay their eggs much earlier than 40 years ago, that's just one of the trends revealed in the latest State of the UK's Birds report - an annual publication produced by a coalition of conserv