By the end of next year, the private conservancy plans to have slaughtered 600 of its resident elephants, in southern ...

The Audubon Zoo welcomed three African lion cubs after their mom, Kali, gave birth to them on Oct. 19, the zoo announced on Oct. 29. Kali and the cubs’ dad, Arnold, made Audubon Zoo history by ...

Back in 1904, the park’s early “zoo” — if you could call it that — housed a rather small but exotic line-up: one lion, a ...

Taiwan's agriculture ministry said that gene sequencing confirmed the African swine fever strain found at a Taichung pig farm ...

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

The Afrikaner cattle breed is prized for its indigenous hardiness, natural resistance, high fertility and ease of calving. Sabrina Dean found out more about the breed from Julian Balt, who was ...

The Boma technique is a method of wildlife capture and translocation that uses a funnel-like enclosure to safely move animals without chemical immobilisation. Animals are herded by foot or helicopter ...

“The applicant sets out that it costs him in the region of R20 million annually to feed, protect and propagate these animals. The applicant contends that he is running out of money to do so and the ...

We provide a scientific analysis of a heartbreaking video clip of a young elephant mother carrying her stillborn calf.

Although the effects of a bullet's terminal performance had been thoroughly studied by 1955, ammunition pioneer Roy Weatherby sought to prove velocity trumps mass and, as a result, built a reputable ...

During the Commission hearing, Witness C alleged that Vusimuzi Matlala claimed he paid millions in cash bribes to suspended Deputy Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya.

Dag Hessen views these resilient animals as wilderness in animal form, representing all that's lost to us in a world being ...