An agreement between the country's wildlife authority and the army to move troops may help preservation efforts at Virunga National Park, home to rare mountain gorillas.
A major earthquake this year in China had a lasting impact on the population of giant pandas, killing at least one of the animals—plus five people who had been working to preserve the species.
Siberia's last woolly mammoths, which died out about 10,000 years ago, descended from North American stock, according to new research. But others question the conclusion.
While exploring Venezuelan wilderness, scientists discovered a new catfish. And they got a closer look at a fish species that lives for almost exactly one year.
"Fishing wolves" in coastal British Columbia forgo their usual prey and eat salmon almost exclusively in the fall, says a new study that "absolutely shocked" its authors.
Newfound troops of two endangered species numbering in the thousands are "undoubtedly" the largest remaining global populations of their kind, conservationists say.
A new Japanese-led study that says minke whales have gotten thinner over time did not justify the killings of thousands of the animals for research, conservationists argue.
In sharp contrast to the situation in 2005, animal welfare groups got thousands of pets and their owners safely away from the U.S. Gulf Coast before Hurricane Gustav hit.
This year poachers have killed 10 percent of the elephants in Africa's largest national park—driven largely by Chinese demand for ivory—park officials say.
