London Zoo is set to reopen today after several animals perished when a fire broke out at the world famous attraction.

Vaccinating badgers against bovine tuberculosis (TB) does not change their behaviour or increase the risk of them spreading the disease, scientists in England have found.

Leopards have lost up to three-quarters of the territory over which they once roamed, a study has shown.

LIKE a bright but distracted child, maybe a slightly frightened one, who can’t concentrate long enough at exam time to realise their potential, we seem unable to focus properly on, or even process honestly, myriad warnings about how our relentlessly cavalier attitude towards the environment will eventually change our world utterly — and not by any means for the better.

Marine mammal, birds, fish and reptile populations have almost halved since 1970, according to a report which is a “wake-up call” to tackle the crisis in the world’s oceans.

HAINAN Island, which I visited a few years ago, is a crowded place, writes Richard Collins

NEVER let it be said that Kathryn Thomas isn’t a stranger to hard work.

Wildlife populations around the world have more than halved in just four decades in the face of unsustainable human consumption, a report has warned.

USA: The 3-year-old Great Dane was miserable and retching when its owners rushed him to a northwest Portland emergency animal hospital. It was something he ate-

Writer Ruth Padel, who opens West Cork Literary Festival this summer, is a direct descendent of Charles Darwin and is greatly inspired by science, she tells Carl Dixon

Almost one in five reptiles is facing extinction, experts warned today.

Almost one in five reptiles is facing extinction, experts have warned.

Conservation experts released a list of the world’s 100 most threatened species and warned that only a changed public and government mindset could save them from imminent extinction.

A baby gorilla dubbed Tiny has taken his first steps at his home in London Zoo.

Tigers and polar bears’ huge appetites make them much more vulnerable to environmental change, scientists said today.

GREAT white sharks and serial killers share the same hunting instincts, scientists have found.

CLEAR evidence that captivity shortens the lives of elephants has been found in a study that could have an impact on zoos.

Aid agencies today warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in the Democratic Republic of Congo after fierce fighting between the government and rebel forces.

MORE than half of Europe’s frog, toad and newt species could be wiped out by mid-century, scientists warned yesterday.

THE Zoological Society of London has compiled a horrifying report that should set alarm bells ringing all over the world.

SEX with an ex is never a good idea, even when you are a particularly horny species of antelope.

ON Wednesday, August 8, there was a sad story on RTÉ Radio’s News at One. It was the announcement that the Yangtze River dolphin was extinct.

A Chinese freshwater dolphin has been declared extinct after desperate efforts to rescue it came too late.

SCIENTISTS launched a bid yesterday to save some of the world’s rarest and most neglected creatures from extinction.