Conservationists say the elephant population in Mozambique has dropped nearly 50% in the last five years because of poaching, but cite good news from Uganda, where the elephant population is increasing.

USA: A judge has dismissed charges against a woman who threw uncooked bacon and sausage inside a police station while saying she was there to “feed the piggies”.

 

ENDANGERED Siam crocodiles have hatched in a zoo in Laos and will be released into the wild once they are old enough to fend for themselves.

US lovers are being urged to forget flowers, chocolates and lingerie if they want to win the affections of their sweetheart on Valentine’s Day.

China is warning its zoos to stop abusing their animals or face being shut down.

A six-month-old baby was killed yesterday and her mother injured by a falling tree branch at New York's Central Park Zoo.

A series of deep-blue high-mountain lakes became Afghanistan’s first provisional national park today, as the violence-racked country took a first step toward protecting one of its finest natural treasures.

WILDLIFE researchers said yesterday they have discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas deep in the forests of the Republic of Congo, calling it a major increase in the animal’s estimated population.

A 2005 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia pushed an island four feet out of the water, causing one of the biggest cases of coral deaths recorded, scientists said today.

One of the world’s rarest rabbits was spotted in Indonesia for just the third time in the past 35 years, underscoring the importance of conserving the region’s threatened rain forests, a conservation group said today.

European governments are bolstering their defences against bird flu, faced with a growing number of dead swans and the risk that migratory birds – which begin returning north next month – could bring the disease from Africa.

FOR the first time, biologists have documented gorillas in the wild using simple tools, such as poking a stick in a swampy pool of water to check its depth.

Wildlife experts are celebrating the sightings of two groups of rare Asiatic cheetahs in central Iran during recent months, raising hopes that one of the world’s fastest moving creatures could be saved from extinction, conservation officials said today.

Wild bears living near US towns and cities are growing overweight from eating the left-overs of fast food meals, researchers have found.