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©Reuters/Andrea Comas Thousands rally against shark cull in Australia Thousands of people rallied across Australia Saturday against a controversial shark culling policy designed to prevent attacks, saying killing the marine animals was the not the answer.
01 February 2014
©Reuters/Phil Noble Hundreds of reptiles, amphibians found dead at S.Africa airport Several hundred reptiles and amphibians were found dead at Johannesburg airport when a routine inspection uncovered some 1,600 of the creatures crammed into two crates destined for the United States.
01 February 2014
World's oldest flamingo dies in Australian zoo, aged 83 Staff at Adelaide Zoo were in mourning Friday after the world's oldest flamingo, and their oldest resident, died aged 83.
31 January 2014
©Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann Bats bounce back in Europe: EU watchdog Europe's bat population recovered by more than 40 percent between 1993 and 2011 after decades of decline.
30 January 2014
©Reuters/Mariana Bazo Brazil scientists warn on dwindling jaguar population The jaguar could soon become extinct in Brazil's tropical Atlantic forest, threatening the shrinking primitive forest itself.
28 January 2014
©Reuters/Romeo Ranoco Boy, 12, taken by crocodile in Australia A 12-year-old boy was feared dead after being snatched by a saltwater crocodile while swimming in Australia's Northern Territory.
27 January 2014
Ivory Coast elephants get new home as habitat shrinks As the spooked elephant starts to run, the vet pulls the trigger. Just a few minutes later the huge beast slumps to the floor unconscious, ready for Ivory Coast's first elephant relocation.
26 January 2014
Sloth and moth are loth to part -- and here's why Imagine a creature so slothful that it snacks off its own fur and budges only once a week for a bowel movement.
22 January 2014
©Reuters/Will Burgess Australia to go ahead with shark 'kill' zones A controversial policy to catch and kill sharks off popular west coast beaches got the green light in Australia, in a move the Humane Society Tuesday termed a "complete disgrace".
22 January 2014
New whale stranding on notorious New Zealand beach More than 50 pilot whales beached themselves Saturday on the same remote New Zealand coast where another 52 whales have either died or been put down in the past two weeks.
19 January 2014
©Reuters/Andrea Comas For sharks, old age may be 70 or more: study Great white sharks may live until their 70s, more than three times as long as previously thought, according to a new analysis of the marine predator's backbones out Wednesday.
14 January 2014
Man's cockroach-in-the-ear agony Down Under A man in Australia endured a painful hospital visit after a large cockroach burrowed into his ear and his efforts to suck it out with a vacuum cleaner failed.
11 January 2014
©Reuters/Ilya Naymushin Lion found hanging in cage at Indonesia 'death zoo' A young African lion has died after getting its head caught in cables in its cage at an Indonesian zoo notorious for hundreds of animal deaths in recent years, it was announced Thursday.
09 January 2014
'Exceptionally rare' conjoined whales found in Mexico Fishermen have found two conjoined gray whale calves in a northwestern Mexican lagoon, a discovery that a government marine biologist described as "exceptionally rare."
08 January 2014
A hummingbird, Washington, 2013. ©Reuters/Larry Downing Power-hungry Washington's soft spot for wounded wildlife Washington is synonymous with power, majestic buildings and ruthless ambition. But it also has a cuddly side, nurturing orphaned baby squirrels and lame turtles.
19 December 2013
©Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo African elephant survival tops agenda at Botswana talks African ministers and experts meet next week in Botswana to chart ways to stamp out a spike in elephant killings fuelled by a growing demand for ivory in Asia.
30 November 2013
©Vladimir Prokopenko Astana starts constructing Zoo in 2015 Astana is going to start constructing a Zoo in 2015.
29 November 2013
©Reuters/Ilya Naymushin Man attacked by tiger at Australia Zoo A man was rushed to hospital on Tuesday after being bitten on the neck by a tiger at Australia Zoo, run by the family of late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin.
26 November 2013
Don't eat furry friends, activists urge Chinese diners Animal rights campaigners have launched a poster campaign urging Chinese diners to turn down cat and dog dishes, with the group calling for the creatures to be considered "friends not food".
23 November 2013
Anson Wong (C). ©Reuters/Bazuki Muhammad Malaysia's 'Lizard King' back in business: report A notorious Malaysian wildlife trafficker dubbed the "Lizard King" for his smuggling of endangered reptiles is back in business despite a 2010 conviction for illegally trafficking endangered species, according to an investigative report by Al Jazeera.
22 November 2013
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