Conservation

Despite public outcry, canned lion hunts are still big in South Africa and the perpetrators often hide under the conservationist umbrella.

The Earth is in the grips of what scientists have dubbed the "Sixth Mass Extinction" with the global rate of species extinction at least "tens to hundreds of times higher" than the average over the past 10 million years.

A post-mortem examination conducted by the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme suggests the animal was killed deliberately.

The duke dismissed the idea that environmental damage is a necessary by-product of economic growth.

Botswana has the largest elephant population on the continent and has traditionally been seen as a safe haven for the animals. However, poaching appears to be rapidly increasing.

Plant extinctions endanger other organisms, ecosystems and the ability of humans to survive on our planet.

Get up close and personal with endangered pachyderms at these ethical elephant sanctuaries.

Researchers predict that the average total body mass of mammals will drop by 25 percent over the next century.

Scientists think they have found a way to trace the threatened creature's former habitats.

"At restaurant tonight waitress asks if we want straws. Says she has to ask now in fear of THE STRAW POLICE," Nunes tweeted to his 380,000 followers.

The Senate passed the Natural Resources Management Act, which conserves and protects more than a million acres of federal land. The bill now goes to the House.

Today some 500,000 bison have been restored in over 6,000 locations.

Sometimes his royal highness even leaves nuts for squirrels in his jacket pockets.

Last month China announced it would allow the use of rhino and tiger products under certain circumstances.

The tiger was believed to have killed at least one person.

"Boats and planes can't go everywhere," one scientist said. Satellites on the other hand...

Years of intensive fieldwork and meticulous museum study have revealed the new species in a case of mistaken identity.

Pando is a unique "forest of one tree" covering some 106 acres of the Fishlake National Forest in Utah.

"Killer whale populations found in the most polluted seas around Japan, Brazil, the U.K. or in the northeast Pacific, the authors report, are tending toward complete collapse."

The giant bird could grow up to 10 feet tall.

Falkland Islands trade minister Teslyn Barkman said the British government must implement a "no penguins left behind" strategy.

Little is known about the world's second largest shark.

They hope the population will grow to 500 in the next 15 years.

Nearly every species of lemur is increasingly threatened by illegal hunting and climate change in Madagascar, the only country where lemurs are naturally found.

Newly released documents show Donald Trump's golf course that opened in Scotland in 2012 "partially destroyed" a nature conservation considered essential to the entire area's ecosystem.

The last surviving male died in March this year.

OR-7 has inspired activists worldwide. His 17 pups have moved across Southern Oregon and Northern California. Unwittingly, he has done more for his species than any other wolf.

In many cultures, eating dolphin is taboo—so fishermen cut up the animals' bodies and use the meat to catch other animals instead.

The Chinese giant salamander is capable of growing up to 5.9 feet in length.

A new Republican piece of legislation will threaten about 58.5 million acres, or 91,000 square miles, of protected forest land according to environmental rights activists.