The British Columbia badger (Taxidea taxus jeffersonii), once numerous in the 1800s, has survived trapping, poisoning and loss of habitat well enough to initiate an artful recovery.

Dhanusha district in Nepal's Terai plains, that celebrated the wedding of Ram and Janaki last month with the arrival of tens of thousands of pilgrims from India, is today living in fear of another visitor from the southern neighbour - an adult male tusk

Two animal rights groups pushing for greater protection for threatened Canada lynx populations in Maine are appealing a federal court decision upholding the state's trapping regulations. The Wildlife Alliance of Maine and the Animal Welfare Institute

SUGAR gliders, possums and joeys may seem like great pets, but wildlife carers in the Bundaberg region are warning residents that adopting these animals is ultimately a death sentence for them. Rosedale wildlife carer Judy Elliott is distraught with

-- World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today released its annual list of some of the most threatened species around the world, saying that the long-term survival of many animals is increasingly in doubt due to a host of threats, including climate change, and

Within five years, Australia Zoo at Beerwah, the state's top tourism destination, will take on a distinctly international flavour. Plans are under way to expand the zoo, which covers 28 hectares, to 141ha in size

Far away, in the far east of Russia is a river flowing along the border with China and North Korea - Cupid. There and live the last of their kind - Far East (Amur - say in the world) leopards. Although Far Eastern leopards so well adapted to extreme

Russia hopes to hold a "tiger summit" in Vladivostok in September to coordinate multinational efforts to protect the Amur tiger, its habitats and increasingly scarce food sources, representatives of Russia's Natural Resources Ministry, the World Bank and

Fletch, a pit bull, was brought to the Humane Society of Kansas City as a stray with very serious injuries sustained from being a bait dog in a dog fighting ring. According to the Humane Society, he was covered with numerous wounds and his head...

This is the question that the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and the BBC Autumnwatch team are hoping to answer, by appealing to members of the public to listen out for Tawny Owls and report them to the