One of the world’s most critically endangered birds, the Siberian crane, appears to be making a comeback thanks to international efforts in China, Russia, Iran and Kazakhstan to create “flyways” for the spectacular species. Read More »
Australia welcomes two giant pandas from China with gifts of bamboo before settling them into their new home at the Adelaide Zoo.
The father of tragic “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin has urged China not to begin importing kangaroo meat amid fears the trade could drive the iconic Australian marsupial to the brink of extinction. Read More »
Chinese animal activists have rescued 300 stolen cats from a dealer who planned to sell the animals as soup meat, according to one of the participants in the raids. 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 »
Leading members of the royal family and top politicians including prime minister Gordon Brown, foreign secretary David Miliband and London mayor Boris Johnson have become embroiled in a battle between rival British zoos to land the country’s first pair of breeding pandas in 15 years. Read More »
Wild American turtles are being harvested from ponds and streams to feed an insatiable appetite for fresh turtle meat in Asia, conservationists have warned. Read More »
Australia’s Taronga Zoo is celebrating an extremely rare birth of an exotically named Francois Langur monkey. The arrival last week of the bright orange baby – dubbed the “world’s cutest monkey” – stunned zookeepers who hadn’t even been certain her mother was pregnant. Read More »
