USA:  A technical glitch meant some First Hawaiian Bank customers logged on to their accounts to find that they appeared to be billions, or sometimes more than a trillion dollars in the red.

Elephant tusks, leopard heads, crocodile skin purses and tiger skins — more than 1.5 million items in all — fill the shelves of a warehouse on a wildlife refuge near Denver.

NO ANIMAL has as many names as the ‘American lion’. According to the Guinness Book of Records, there are over 40.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called for him to be hanged.

THERE are too many cormorants on the Columbia River between Washington State and Oregon, say US federal officials. Richard Collins says there's no need for a cull.

POLICE: MAN REFUSED TO MOVE FOR HELICOPTER LANDING

SEAGAL’S SHOW

Adam Higginbotham goes on the trail of the Traveller gang behind Europe’s rhino horn theft epidemic.

US officials are destroying more than six tonnes of confiscated ivory tusks, carvings and jewellery – the bulk of the country’s “blood ivory” stockpile - to support the fight against a US $10bn (€7.5 bn) global trade that slaughters tens of thousands of elephants each year.

IN September, the Outdoors page carried a piece on domestic cats and the damage they do to wildlife.

A notorious Traveller criminal network which dominates a multi-million dollar global trade in stolen rhino horn is being targeted in a huge police operation in the United States.

A US judge has backed a finding by government scientists that global warming is threatening the survival of the polar bear.

A Delta Air Lines 747 with nearly 380 passengers and crew made an emergency stop at the Midway Atoll wildlife refuge part of the way between Hawaii and Japan after the plane developed a crack in the cockpit windshield.

The US federal government proposed listing two seals that depend on sea ice as threatened species because of the projected loss of ice from climate warming.

The US government has declared the polar bear a threatened species because of the loss of Arctic sea ice but also cautioned the decision should not be viewed as a path to address global warming.

IT IS to be hoped the threatened Canarian giant lizards will not fall victim to the likes of Jereme James, charged with smuggling three endangered iguana into the USA using his false leg.

A man has been charged with stealing three endangered iguanas from a nature preserve in Fiji and smuggling them into the US in his prosthetic leg.

Animals are not being mistreated at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, federal officials have concluded.