Hounded by pet lovers, South Korean dog meat proponents were forced to postpone a major event planned for this week to promote canine cuisine and fight off international critics
Wildlife experts in Kenya are baffled by a lioness that adopted a baby oryx, a kind of small antelope typically devoured by big cats
Fed up with spending more time killing than saving lives, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Hong Kong aims to abolish the practice of mercy killing of unwanted pets by the summer
A Japanese whaling ship that entered Australian waters in the Antarctic was ordered out by the Aurora Australis, an Australian research vessel
Canadian fisheries officers are catching cross-border crab poachers in Boundary Bay using a high-tech digital camera with the power of a 65-times zoom lens
An enormous squid that grows seven metres long and lives more than 1,000 metres under the ocean, has baffled scientists with what they call its strange looks and weird behaviour
A hungry bear ate a hunter in Russia’s Jewish autonomous region in the country’s far east
High school students are learning to track cougars as part of a groundbreaking research project that pairs wildlife officials and public schools in an effort to study Washington’s wildcats
Federal and state wildlife biologists planted false evidence of a rare cat species in two national forests. Had the deception not been discovered, the government likely would have banned many forms of recreation and use of natural resources in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state
Greenpeace vessels have been involved in a stand-off in the Antarctic with Japanese whaling ships in an attempt to disrupt the planned killing of 400 Minke whales
Large numbers of Adélie penguins are dying from an unidentified disease near the Australian Mawson base
Scientists at Britain’s University of West England have developed the SlugBot, a prototype robot capable of hunting down more than 100 slugs an hour
Dog owners get less exercise than non-dog owners, according to surprising new Australian research
A clever species of crow is causing scientists to puzzle over how most human beings came to be right-handed
The poison on an arrow that paralyses a wild beast in the jungle and a pill that can relax our tense muscles have something in common — they both come from the curare plant discovered by Brazilian Indians. Now, the indigenous people of Brazil want this type of link between primitive hunting trick and modern pharmaceutical technology to be recognised as a property right that could bring much-needed cash to needy tribes, some of them on the brink of extinction
A man in southern Sweden scared his neighbour’s dog, which then tore off his ear and swallowed it
Authorities in the city of Lucknow have decided to serve the 35 or so primates at the local zoo a daily dose of brandy to ensure they stay warm and happy
A dog may be many men’s best friend, but not Nandor C Santho. At least not after Santho’s dog helped turn him in to police in what may be the biggest drug bust in Delaware County history
Colins the stowaway cat was finally reunited with her New Zealand master, 18 days after she took a catnap on a South Korea-bound tanker that took to sea
The Jaragua Sphaero or dwarf gecko measures just 16mm in length. The species lives in Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic and on Beata Island, off the southern coast of Hispaniola, the island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti
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