THE whaling season has begun with a Japanese hunting vessel leaving port for the Southern Ocean, Greenpeace claims. The conservation group said the ship Nisshin Maru left the port of Innoshima on Monday. Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner saying

This will continue for as long as Turkish citizens allow it. The only way to stop this is a combined effort in exposing this henious crimes, the criminals that commit them AND, most importantly, taking thos people to court...

Tomorrow a national vote by Australian wool producers will decide the future of mulesing, when sheep farmers elect members of the Australian Wool Innovation board.

After more than four years and a last-minute rescue plan to fund the project, the genome of Australia's largest marsupial, the kangaroo, has been mapped. The project, which was jointly funded by the Victorian Government and the US National Institutes o

Scientists claim Arctic polar bears are so hungry they are eating other bears. ITN's Lawrence McGinty reports.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Officials at Des Moines' Blank Park Zoo are looking for a flamingo that flew the coop Tuesday morning. Zoo spokesman Terry Rich said the adult flamingo was discovered missing Tuesday. It had been spotted outside the zoo on the city'

Nov. 18, 2008 -- Toxic cane toads are killing alarming numbers of Australia's freshwater crocodiles as the alien pests hop inexorably across the continent, research showed Tuesday. The warty amphibians, which have poisonous sacs on their heads, have c

Auckland Zoo elephants Kashin and Burma could become the last elephants in a New Zealand zoo as a result of Auckland City Council budget cuts. The zoo wants to build a herd of elephants as part of a succession plan for Kashin, who turned 40 on Sunday.

A legless lizard, Bachia oxyrhina, discovered in a remote region of Brazil earlier this year, has been described officially recognised as a new species by the scientific journal Zootaxa. The scientific study cited for the first time the lizard's scientifi

After being successfully treated for lead poisoning at Auckland Zoo, Lee, a male kakapo died following a three-hour emergency operation. A post-mortem examination has confirmed that Lee died from a small tear in the side of his crop - the sac-like p