(AP)—India's Supreme Court on Monday ordered western Gujarat state to share some of its endangered lions with a neighboring state to create a second home for them.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 15, 2013 not rated yet 0

Bangladesh is to launch a census of tigers next month living in the world's largest mangrove forest in a bid to determine the full extent of the threat to their survival, scientists said on Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 26, 2013 not rated yet 0

Poachers in northeast India have slaughtered 13 endangered one-horned rhinos in the last two months, officials said on Friday as another death added to worries about a recent surge in killings.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 01, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 0

Hundreds of conservationists have begun a major survey of the number of endangered Royal Bengal tigers living in a vast forest region bordering Nepal and India, officials said Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 05, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 0

A young dolphin has been used to lure a pod of 100 to 150 others to safety after they were in danger of stranding themselves, Australian officials said Sunday.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 03, 2013 4.8 / 5 (5) 5

Conservationists have expressed alarm over the low number of turtles arriving on the coast of east India and Bangladesh for the nesting season, blaming overfishing and climate change for the decline.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 21, 2012 not rated yet 2

In the hit cartoon film "Madagascar", the island's lemurs are a lovable bunch of extroverts, but they are also among the world's most threatened primates, conservationists warned on Monday.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 15, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

British wildlife experts on Sunday condemned a plan to cull thousands of badgers in the UK in a bid to fight bovine tuberculosis, saying that killing the animals could worsen the problem it aims to solve.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 14, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 2

A new report published today by Panthera confirms that widespread illegal hunting and the bushmeat trade occur more frequently and with greater impact on wildlife populations in the Southern and Eastern savannas ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 12, 2012 not rated yet 0

A dead humpback whale washed up in a Sydney ocean pool Wednesday, surprising morning swimmers and causing a major headache for authorities who must now remove it.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 01, 2012 not rated yet 2

(AP) -- A wayward dolphin that has spent two days in a narrow wetlands channel along the southern California coast was on its way out to the ocean Saturday when it suddenly turned tail and swam back to shallow ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 29, 2012 not rated yet 0

A cargo ship that caused New Zealand's worst maritime pollution disaster when it ran aground three months ago broke in two in a storm on Sunday, raising fears of a fresh environmental crisis.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 08, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 2

Fattened up on a diet of "fish milkshakes" and escorted by his own personal veterinary team, the world's most famous penguin, Happy Feet, sets sail Monday for the icy waters he calls home.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 28, 2011 not rated yet 6

"Goat plague," or peste des petits ruminants (PPR), is threatening global food security and poverty alleviation in the developing world, say leading veterinarians and animal health experts in this week's Veterinary Record.

Biology - Other

Jul 01, 2011 4.3 / 5 (3) 0

Wildlife experts said they were astonished Wednesday at the appearance of an Emperor penguin in New Zealand, some 3,000 kilometres (1,900 miles) from his Antarctic home.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 22, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 6