SANTIAGO - Help is on the way for hundreds of household pets left behind in the wake of a volcano eruption in southern Chile, an animal welfare group said.
The Coalition for Ethical Control of Urban Fauna, which has been critical of the Government's at
It's a classic stand-off between one of the world's best loved animals and one of its most unpopular leaders, between the planet's largest bear and its most powerful man. And it comes to a head this week.
On Thursday, by order of a federal judge, Georg
LOS ANGELES -- Ruling the issue is political and not legal, a judge on Tuesday threw out actor Robert Culp's taxpayer lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles that sought to close the city zoo's elephant exhibit and prevent further spending of $40 million
CLIMATE change could lead to "killer cornflakes" with the most potent liver toxin ever recorded, an environmental health conference has been told.
The effects of the toxins, known as mycotoxins, have been known since the Middle Ages when rye bread cont
A team of experts from the US and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) is to conduct a census of crocodiles in Kidepo and Murchison Falls national parks, according to Aggrey Rwetsiba, a researcher with UWA.
Rwetsiba recently said UWA has a proposal to c
Srinagar: A rare species of red deer found only in Indian Kashmir is on the verge of extinction, with only 160 animals in existence, a census by India's wildlife authorities showed on Monday.
The antlered red deer, commonly known as the hangul, was
Dublin - Earthworms provide services to Ireland worth over €700-million (about R829-million) a year, according to a government-commissioned study on Monday.
The environment ministry's 197-page report, Benefits and Costs of Biodiversity in Ireland, inve
Honeybees are under threat worldwide because of virulent viruses against which they have no natural defences. Nearly all colonies in the wild have died out and without beekeepers to care for them, honeybees could disappear in a few years. Here's what you
Terri Irwin has launched an online petition to stop mining in a far north Queensland reserve named after her late husband.
Mining company Cape Alumina has lodged a mining lease application for an area that encroaches on the 135,000ha Bertiehaugh Cattle
Wearing rubber gloves, Drake picked up the old female California desert tortoise and, in one fluid motion, moved her to safer ground beneath a nearby creosote bush. "It's one of ours," she said. "No. 4118."
