Tag: Conservation

A conservation group said Monday it has chosen the name Alba for a rare albino orangutan rescued from captivity in ...

Malaysian customs foiled an attempt to smuggle hundreds of the world's most endangered tortoises into the country from Madagascar, a ...

Indonesian authorities have arrested two men on suspicion of poaching Sumatran tigers and seized a skin and bones taken from ...

In the depths of Indonesia's dense Leuser rain forest, a group of rangers are searching for traps set by poachers ...

The public are being asked to name a rare albino orangutan rescued in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, with ...

All hell broke loose as the one-horned rhino stepped out of the crate, the powerful male charging elephant-mounted mahouts relocating ...

Poachers have shot dead a one-horned rhinoceros at a national wildlife park in Nepal, officials said Sunday, spotlighting the threat ...

South Africa's highest court Wednesday rejected a bid by the government to keep a ban on domestic trade in rhino ...

Conservationists on Monday captured a rare one-horned rhinoceros in Nepal as part of an attempt to increase the number of ...

AFP's photographer in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, Abdullah Doma, was detained late Saturday for the second time in ...

Manatees are no longer an endangered species, US officials said Thursday, declaring success after decades of efforts to rebuild the ...

AFP's photographer in the Libyan city of Benghazi, Abdullah Doma, has been arrested at his home by the security services ...

The price of ivory has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the last three years, according to research conducted in China ...

A Hong Kong court has convicted two men for illegal possession of ivory chopsticks after radiocarbon dating proved it was ...

Sydney's Opera House and the Harbour Bridge plunged into darkness to mark Earth Hour on Saturday night, but it seems ...

Sydney's Opera House and Harbour Bridge plunged into darkness Saturday to mark Earth Hour, as global landmarks began dimming their ...

Authorities in Vietnam have discovered five frozen tigers, all with their organs removed, hidden in a freezer. Official reports today ...

Five frozen tigers have been discovered in a Vietnamese man's freezer with their organs removed, according to official reports Tuesday, ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is experiencing an unprecedented second straight year of mass coral bleaching, scientists said Friday, warning many ...

One of Africa's oldest and largest elephants was killed by poachers in Kenya on Monday, according to a conservation group ...