A project to capture American signal crayfish on a Scottish loch has caught more than a million of the creatures.

Wild horse advocates today celebrated a partial victory as U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman ordered a lawsuit challenging a Bureau of Land Management roundup of thousands of wild horses in Nevada forward, but denied a preliminary injunction to s

As the population of Alaska's Cook Inlet beluga whales plummeted from over 1,200 in 1979 to only 326 in 2009, these iconic whales were finally listed as endangered in 2008. Now, a new proposal announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati

Marine biologists are hoping a giant Green Turtle fitted with a tracking device can provide information to help stop its species dying out in the Gulf.

In June 2009, PETA Germany asked Princess Stephanie of Monaco to use her influence as patron of the International Circus Festival and urge organisers to stop using wild animals.Investigators for PETA US and our other international affiliates have consiste

Oceans becoming noisier as sounds travel further in increasingly acidic water

Four rare, northern white rhinos, half the known population left in the world, will leave a Czech zoo for Africa on Saturday in a last-ditch bid to save the species from extinction.

Certain exotic snakes, some of them sold in pet stores, may be regulated further after a new study pointed out the dangers they pose to native ecosystems when they escape into the wild here.

CROC hunter Steve Irwin's dream of opening an Aussie zoo in Las Vegas is to be realised, three years after his death. Representatives for the Irwins met Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman last week to discuss resurrecting their proposal for a US Australia Zoo

The owner of the Tiger Ranch 'death camp for cats' was confined under house arrest pending sentencing for violating agreement while free on bond. Linda Marie Bruno may be sentenced up to 24 years in prison and fined $60,000. Sentencing hearing postponed.