Across North America, black bears have been found with gallbladders removed, paws chopped off, and bodies left to rot, all to satisfy a demand in Asian communities both here and abroad. A gallbladder might fetch thousands of dollars on the black market,

Each year, millions of wild animals are imported into the U.S., mostly for sale as exotic "pets." This trade has already exposed U.S. citizens to the potentially deadly monkeypox virus, which was carried into the U.S. by Gambian pouched rats imported

Urge your Representative to support banning cruel traps within the National Wildlife Refuge System.

By attending a city or county council meeting in your area, you can pave the way toward a local ordinance prohibiting the use of animals in the circus, and many of the industry's most abusive training tools and methods.

The United States Senate, 100 Americans who jointly represent all 50 states, is the last hurdle toward passing the Captive Primate Safety Act and ending the trade in primates if they are to be kept as "pets." The bill has already been approved by the

Each week thousands of live cattle undertake a three-week journey from the Amazon port of Belem in Brazil to Beirut in Lebanon. The cattle are crammed into trucks in the burning Amazon heat. For four days they are unable to move or lie down and receive

The WWF - World Wide Fund For Nature - has compiled a list of species at risk around the world that are at threat from global warming

Oceans: an underwater film featuring footage of whales, dolphins, penguins and sharks

Two Amur leopards are expected to join Siberian tigers and the UK's only polar bear at a wildlife park in the Highlands later next year.

What's the prognosis for the Sumatran tiger and the others in the wild? Grim, I guess, but let's have a look at why.