In a storyline apparently lifted straight from the plot of a Godzilla movie, fishermen along Japan’s northern coastline have been warned to prepare for a “massive” invasion of giant-sized toxic jellyfish. Read More »
Image: www.freedigitalphotos.netMisbehaving monkeys in the Indian state of Punjab are to be sent to school in a bid to teach them manners. Read More »
Thai authorities have unveiled measures to crackdown on “elephant begging” — a decades-old scam in which the animals’ owners offer tourists and passers-by the chance to feed or pet the giant creatures in return for payment. Read More »
The World Bank has thrown its support behind conservation efforts to save the tiger amid fears the big cats could be extinct in the wild within 10 years. Read More »
Zookeepers in Thailand are celebrating the surprise birth of a panda cub – having given up all hope that the zoo’s two bears would ever mate after staging a mock wedding for the pair and even showing them panda pornography. Read More »
As if the dubious distinction of being the only creature of his species in a country in which bacon and pork are considered sacrilegious, the only pig in Afghanistan has been placed in solitary confinement amid fears over swine flu. Read More »
A booming illegal pet trade in Sumatran orangutans and gibbons in Indonesia is helping to drive the apes to the brink of extinction, wildlife trafficking campaigners warn in a new report. Read More »
Conservationists are celebrating the discovery of up to several thousand orangutans on the Indonesian island of Borneo – a find that considerably bolsters the total estimated population of the endangered great ape. Read More »