A wildlife park near Doncaster has launched a fundraising campaign to bring 14 lions from a Romanian zoo. Yorkshire Wildlife Park says it needs to raise £150,000 to transfer the lions from the country's Oradea Zoo.

Only about 4,000 tigers remain in the wild, scattered across forests stretching from India to the Russian Far East. Tigers are poisoned, shot, trapped and snared, and the majority of these animals are sought to meet the demands of a continuing illegal

Populations of pearl-bordered and small pearl-bordered fritillary butterflies at Devon Wildlife Trust's (DWT) Marsland Nature Reserve on the north Devon coast are set for a boost this year thanks to new funding from the Pennon Environmental Fund (PEF).

Caesar, head of the pride, is barely able to walk. His once mighty muscles have atrophied for lack of exercise. He shares his cage with females Annetta and Alis, both seven, and their two cubs. Like all the lions here they sleep on a concrete floor, live

In just a few days, Idaho officials have sold more than 4,000 out of 70,000 wolf-killing permits for sale. There are only 1,000 wolves in Idaho. That's 70 hunters per wolf. Please tell President Obama to stop this senseless slaughter before it begins.

Republic Act 8485, also known as the Animal Welfare Act, outlawed all horse fighting in 1998. However, with penalties ranging from a minimum of 1000 pesos (approx. £10) to a maximum of 5000 pesos (approx. £50), horse fighting organizers pay little heed

A tiny dachshund puppy was snatched by brazen poachers in KwaZulu-Natal this week and used as live bait to lure wildlife into illegal snares. The one-year-old dog was rescued last Saturday evening just as a group of bush pigs closed in on the makes

Around 14 lions in a Romanian zoo are said to be facing death, after authorities have decided to shoot them as they are too weak to stand or even roar. The squalid and ramshackle Romanian zoo, condemned as unfit for animals by the European Union,

Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed to jointly monitor the movement of wildlife across their common boundaries.

Animal control officer Kristin Lucas is used to finding animals in dire straits. But on Wednesday, she saw something she had never seen before. Someone had put an elderly Chihuahua in a garbage bag, tied the bag shut and thrown it into the Dumpster