At the same time as Botswana bans hunting close to its reserves and Kenya uses Maasai hunters to protect its lions, Uganda introduces commercial hunting into its Pian-Upe wildlife reserve in Uganda hoping to improve conservation.

New research strengthens the theory that horses may have been domesticated by a culture that had not developed agriculture.

In the second such incident in the past one week, a tiger has been found dead in the Jim Corbett National Park.

The Chernobyl disaster, a nuclear reactor explosion and subsequent fire on April 26, 1986, which spewed highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere, continues to harm animal populations in the Ukraine, according to a new study.

On March 23, just a few days from now, the Center for Biological Diversity's lawyers and scientists will be in a federal court seeking to force the federal government to prepare a recovery plan for the endangered jaguar and protect its habitat,

Illegal logging in Indonesia has wiped out up millions of hectares of forest and driven the Sumatran tiger to the brink of extinction. The recent spate of killings in Sumatra's Jambi's province shows that loggers and tigers are now locked in battle over

Thousands of Spaniards have signed a petition demanding greater protection for sharks from overfishing, marine protection campaigners Oceana said Thursday.

Last November, Operation Baba, a five-country law enforcement operation in Africa co-ordinated by INTERPOL with the support of The Humane Society of Canada and other dedicated groups, resulted in the arrest of 57 people and the seizure of one ton of

Baby mandarin ducklings take the 'plunge'

The wetland area is designated as a conservation zone, but is threatened by pollution from a poorly maintained and operated sewage treatment plant and planned nearby property development. Sign to protect the world's largest breeding colony.