More than 120 birds in Canada’s oil heartland of Alberta were killed after getting caught in a pond of oil sands byproducts operated by the country’s largest producer, Suncor Energy Inc, the local

Nine elephants were electrocuted in central Botswana in a freak accident near the village of Dukwi.

MTN and IBM are introducing collars for prey animals, which help combat rhino poaching — a test case for new wireless technologies.

The biggest and the smallest of the world's animals are most at risk of dying out, according to a new analysis.

The snow leopard is no longer an endangered species, but its population in the wild is still at risk because of poaching and habitat loss, conservationists said this week.

Criminal networks smuggling rhino horn out of Africa are turning it into jewellery to evade its detection in airports, an investigation has found.

A pair of rare white giraffes have been spotted in Kenya, to the delight of local residents and conservationists.

Conflict between local pastoralists and lions remains a tricky problem in lion conservation, but reinforcing traditional fencing structures called “bomas” may provide a cost-effective solution.

A series of undercover investigations by the NGO TRAFFIC over several years in five Central African countries has revealed a shift in the region from local markets for ivory to an ‘underground’