All news on the topic: Wildlife

A wildlife expert has revealed the identity of unusual creatures caught on video at a waterfall in the Highlands as young eels making a journey across the Atlantic Ocean.

Wildlife presenter and comedian Bill Oddie has died aged 85, with Chris Packham leading tributes and calling him an ‘utter joy’.

Footage shows the terrifying moment a leopard entered a shop in India and jumped on a worker.

It was a sapling around the time King Henry VIII was writing love letters to Anne Boleyn.

The shop is dark and deserted. Though the door is open, there is clearly no expectation of any customers walking in off the street. Visits are likely by appointment and from a specific clientele. This shop is part of an organised crime network. What is being sold is highly illegal and incredibly unethical.

A human fox is joining the fight to dump Nigel Farage as an MP at the Clacton by-election.

A tourist has been mauled to death by a crocodile after being dragged underwater at a popular holiday hotspot.

A young Brit golfer was left gobsmacked after she chased her golf ball to a hole on a UK course - only to find it had settled on a snake measuring a whopping six feet.

The taxi shudders uphill into a forest teeming with life. Palm fronds sag over the road like heavy, slick hands, and flashes of green birds flicker between the trees.

Nigeria’s recent conviction of a man for illegally selling a metric ton of pangolin scales was welcomed this week by government and NGO officials, who are hailing better protection against the trafficking of the threatened scaly anteaters.

A man in his 50s has been hospitalized after a bear attack in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, the latest in a growing string of encounters that have triggered panic in the country.

The world’s leading wildlife authority has advised India to temporarily stop importing endangered species after finding irregularities in the acquisition of thousands of animals for a large conservation facility owned by one of the country’s wealthiest families.

The caregivers of the dogs that have settled at the Chernobyl site have observed some canines with blue fur, a first occurrence in the disaster zone.

A pet lion belonging to a Thai TikToker escaped and attacked an 11-year-old boy and a man who attempted to assist him.

Dame Jane Goodall, known for her ground-breaking studies involving chimpanzees, has died.

A grandfather was tragically trampled to death by a wild elephant that entered his garden in search of food.

This is the terrifying moment when two couples from the UK and the US narrowly escaped death as a charging elephant overturned their safari canoes and struck one of the women with its trunk.

Sewage is pouring into the rivers inside national parks at twice the rate that is occurring outside the protected areas, it can be revealed.

Wildlife Justice Commission report shows sharp, lasting decline in seizures since 2020, driven by COVID-19 disruption and targeted law enforcement.

Montana-based hunting influencer flies out of Australia on Friday after home affairs minister said he couldn’t ‘wait to see the back of this individual’

Scottish Wildlife Trust plans to create rainforest, restore peatland and end deer stalking on Highland sporting estate

Video posted online is said to show Trump Jr with a ruddy shelduck while on hunting trip.

This is the story of the largest seizure of its kind ever made in Colombian territory, where a shipment of more than 3,400 shark fins, intended to be trafficked to Hong Kong...

Part of an international initiative to combat organised wildlife crime, similar seizures in Australia and Norway have recovered more than 50,000 eggs

Less than two months after a four-year sentence for wildlife trafficking, a Colombian court has released Fernando Rodríguez Mondragón—a son of the late drug lord Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela—following a deal with prosecutors.