Most population monitoring surveys of wild animals and plants are poorly designed, a new study says.

Scientists are deeply divided on whether snow leopards are still endangered species, a BBC investigation has found.

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal has seized hundreds of figurines and clusters of lion and hippopotamus teeth as part of the biggest ivory haul in its history and arrested two men illegally selling the me

A plan to enlarge a two-lane highway into six prompts skepticism among locals.

MAPUTO Mozambique (Xinhua) -- The Mozambican Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development (MITADER) announced here on Monday that 20 Tanzanian citizens will be deported for their involvement

More than 300 animal species face different degrees of threat in Bahia state.

An online auction of rhino horn is set to open Monday, after a court in South Africa approved the site which has outraged conservationists.

The clouded leopard is the least well-known of the big cats. Both species (Neofelis nebulosa and Neofelis diarti) are listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN across their ranges.

When JRR Tolkien completed his sketch “Death of Smaug” for The Hobbit in the early 1930s‚ he was illustrating a work of fiction. But it turns out he was being prophetic‚ too.

According to Babu Ram Lamichhane, a wildlife research officer with Nepalese non-profit National Trust for Nature Conservation and lead author of a study published this month in the journal Oryx, Ne