New pictures released by Conservation International depict a troubling development in Madagascar: the emergence of a commercial bushmeat market for lemurs. In the aftermath of a March coup that saw Madagascar's president replaced at gunpoint

A new species of monkey has been discovered in the Brazilian Amazon, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society. The monkey, a type of saddleback tamarin, has been named Mura's saddleback tamarin after the Mura Indian tribe.

As Borneo's rain forests are razed for oil palm plantations, wildlife centers are taking in more and more orphaned orangutans and preparing them for reintroduction into the wild. But the endangered primates now face a new threat -- there is not enough habi

To celebrate Father's Day, the Wildlife Conservation Society released this photo of the lion, "M'wasi", and his daughter Moxie taken at the Bronx Zoo by photographer Julie Larsen Maher.

Dr. Yusof Basiron, CEO of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council, the government-backed marketing arm of the Malaysian palm oil industry, claims on his blog that endangered orangutans benefit from living in proximity to oil palm plantations.

Another ability long-thought to belong solely to humans, like tool-use or counting, does in fact occur in other species, according to two new studies. In this case, it is the capacity to move rhythmically with music.

Poor regulation of the international wildlife trade has increased the vulnerability of the U.S. to outbreaks of disease and alien invasive species, report researchers writing in Science. Of the more than 1.5 billion live wildlife animals legally imported

WWF has attributed six recent killings of villagers by tigers to deforestation in Sumatra. Habitat loss -- together with prey depletion by hunting -- is believed to be driving tiger-human conflict on the Indonesia island.

Trying to protect the beautiful Jaguar in an ever hostile world.

A new study from Science provides disturbing evidence that one of the zoos' most popular animals, the elephant, faces a far shorter lifespan in captivity than in the wild. The findings raise new ethical and scientific questions regarding the rightness of