Wildlife

‘Significant’ incident at Taronga Zoo now under investigation as officials try to find out how the animals got out of their enclosure.Sydney’s Taronga Zoo has rushed people camping…

The matriarch was aged between 60 and 65 years, and died of natural causes, wildlife officials say.Dida, an elephant in Kenya believed to have been Africa’s largest female tusker,…

WWF calls for urgent action as landmark report on wildlife populations shows ‘terrifying’ decline across the world.The world’s wildlife populations have suffered a “devastating”…

Eight Namibian cheetahs have arrived in India in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted creatures that has divided wildlife experts after the big cats’ local extinction…

Firefighters in Algeria have extinguished all but one of more than 50 wildfires that ravaged the country this week, killing at least 37 people and consuming farms, crops and cork…

Laboratory tests following a mass die-off of fish in the Oder River detected high levels of salinity but no mercury poisoning its waters, Poland’s environment minister has said, as…

A four-meter-long whale has been stranded in a river since last week and is now fighting for its life until transfer.French environmentalists and marine experts have started…

Vessels off the East Coast of the United States must slow down more often to help save a vanishing species of whale from extinction, the federal government has said. The National…

Experts in Switzerland say they do not know how to stop the spread of a virus that has killed three young elephants at a zoo in Zurich in a month. Umesh, a two-year-old male, was…

From: WitnessThe world of a captive Bengal tiger in an Iranian zoo is turned upside down after she tastes freedom for the first time.Every day, thousands of visitors flock to the…