The Indonesian capital Jakarta, one of the world's most overcrowded and polluted megacities, has launched a new bid to rid its streets of vermin -- by offering residents $1.50 for every rat they catch.
Sri Lankan custom officers on Tuesday destroyed 45 kilograms (99 pounds) of rare bird nests that are considered a delicacy in China and have a street value of nearly half a million dollars.
Three Indonesian men have been arrested for allegedly trading in protected species, with police seizing animal parts including a tiger skin, deer genitalia and pangolin scales, an official said Monday.
Hundreds of horseshoe crabs -- known as ‘living fossils’ as they are among the earth's oldest creatures -- have washed ashore dead in southern Japan ...
Scientific techniques that can wipe out invasive species or alter mosquitoes' ability to carry disease are pushing ahead, raising concerns about the ethics of permanently changing the natural world, experts say.
A safari park employee in Japan died on Tuesday after being attacked by a bear which had somehow climbed into her car, local officials and police said.
Bangladesh and India are mounting a major rescue effort for a wild elephant struggling to survive after it was separated from its herd by floods and then washed across the border.
Police in southern India are searching for two medical students after video of one flinging a stray dog from the balcony of a two-storey building went viral, sparking outrage.
A jaguar featured at an Olympic torch ceremony was shot dead by a soldier shortly after the event in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus as the animal escaped from its handlers ...
Authorities early Wednesday searched lakes outside Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa after an alligator snatched a two-year-old boy from the shore.
Climate change appears to have driven to extinction an Australian Great Barrier Reef rodent, according to a new study, which suggests the species may be the first mammal lost to the global phenomenon.
Workers at the Cincinnati Zoo in the US state of Ohio shot and killed a gorilla after a three-year-old boy fell into its enclosure, officials said.
