From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal ...

African wild dogs are effective hunters. They have a high success rate due to teamwork. Studies show pack size impacts ...

An estimated 26 per cent of Africa’s freshwater fish species are threatened (including those assessed as Critically ...

Our oceans are as remarkable as they are mysterious; the deep dark waters as foreign to us as far-reaching planets. Though ...

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a temporary pond, doomed to dry up eventually. Inside swam a “rainbow” creature with “large” yellow eyes. Something about it caught the ...

The highly threatened ducks have been hatched at the zoo for the first time as part of a specialist breeding program.

As a result, the species is listed as endangered on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List ...

From Mughal menageries to colonial spectacles, zoos have always been about power, not care. Now, as science and ethics ...

Wild is something that calls from deep within — a pull towards the unknown, the raw, the real. It isn’t something that can be ...

Residents of Mafia Island in Tanzania don’t really eat sea cucumber; they call it jongoo bahari, or “ocean millipede” in Swahili. But sea cucumbers are a prized delicacy in East Asia, where ...

Despite more than two decades of determined conservation work, the silent slaughter of endangered sea turtles continues in ...

Once widespread, latest surveys found just 14 individuals in Kenya and fewer than 100 in Tanzania - prompting concern over the future survival of the species.