Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube users in the US are buying primates easily and often, despite the links to illegal trade, threats to human health, and dire environmental and economic consequences.

Campaigners tell of ‘chaotic scenes of extreme cruelty’ as three separate hunts are carried out, just hours after the Faroe Islands voted to remove protections for dolphins.

Animal welfare organizations warn that public registries may hinder rehabilitation and do little to protect animals in practice.

At the facility in Laos, 27 moon bears had been confined to tiny metal cages for at least two years, with several showing signs of muscle atrophy.

Animal rights groups, indigenous leaders, and elephant experts are calling for the zoo to rehome the three elephants.

The days of ejiao could be numbered as an animal-free, cultivated version is on its way.

As baby animal season begins and the weather heats up, wildlife experts have shared guidance on how to tell the difference between an animal that needs help and one that is simply waiting for their parents to return.

Reports indicate that plans may be under way to transfer Wikie and Keijo the two remaining orcas at the now-closed Marineland Antibes to Tenerife’s entertainment venue, Loro Parque, before the end of June.

Wildlife authorities in Zambia have arrested ten people and seized approximately 550kg of ivory tusks, in an operation that exposes the organised criminal networks driving the illegal elephant trade across southern Africa.

The Trump administration has reinstated cyanide bombs on more than 245 million acres of public land, reversing a ban that had been in place since 2023. Here's what that means for wildlife, family dogs, and the communities living alongside them.

The pioneering sequencing of pangolin DNA will reveal trafficking networks, and allow authorities to create effective conservation management.

Record numbers of weak and malnourished whales are being found along the coasts of Washington, California, and Oregon, with scientists blaming climate change and the subsequent scarcity of food.

A highly contagious virus is tearing through Wyoming's wolf population, reducing numbers to a critical low, yet the state is still planning to allow trophy hunting this year.

More than 300 permits were issued by the Trump administration last year – up from 114 in 2018.

Requests for a preliminary injunction have been denied, allowing the State’s predator hunting program to begin this month across 40,000 square miles of Southwest Alaska.

New study shows that mesothermic species are in danger of shrinking habitats as oceans warm.

A closer look at what's on the TV personality and biologist's plate as he hits a milestone birthday.

Eighty hippos descended from Pablo Escobar's private zoo could be saved from a planned cull, after a billionaire's son offered to take them in.

The bipartisan legislation would offer incentives for producers of renewable materials.

Campaigners and politicians are demanding a review of current laws and protections for sloths, following the deaths of at least 55 wild-caught sloths at the yet-to-open Sloth World Orlando.