India PM Modi heralds “great news” as cheetahs released in India exploring bigger habitat November 6, 2022 Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared an exciting update that two of the eight cheetahs brought to India from Namibia for a new life in… Continue Reading
Dozens of parrots saved from illegal wildlife trade returned to wild in Democratic Republic of Congo September 5, 2022 It took months of rehab and weeks of adapting to their new home, but 68 African Grey Parrots rescued from the illegal wildlife trade… Continue Reading
Big “tusker” elephant Tolstoy dead at 51 after being speared in the leg by farmer May 4, 2022 One of Africa’s “super tusker” elephants, considered “an icon of the Amboseli ecosystem,” has died from injuries suffered by a spear attack. The Big… Continue Reading
India’s only African elephant in captivity may be released February 1, 2022 In 1998, a young elephant at home in the vast Savannah grasslands of Zimbabwe set off on a journey he hadn’t asked for. The… Continue Reading
Canadian zoo “rewilds” two captive-born cheetahs back to Zimbabwe February 12, 2021 In a Canadian first, a pair of cheetahs born in captivity in a Quebec zoo continue to settle into their new home in a… Continue Reading
Adorable Rothschild’s giraffe calf born at Chester Zoo March 9, 2019 He is just a few days old, but Mburo is captivating the world. He may also help change it. The incredibly cute — and… Continue Reading
Wednesday Zen Moment: When a nearly-poached pangolin is set free October 4, 2017 Pangolins are the most trafficked animal in the world. But not this one. Rangers with Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the… Continue Reading
Gunmen kill prominent anti-poaching leader Wayne Lotter in Tanzania August 24, 2017 An anti-poaching activist who stared down threats to her personal safety was killed last week by unknown gunmen in the Masaki District of Dar… Continue Reading
First rhino horn burn in the U.S. to occur in San Diego sends message of zero tolerance to poachers September 8, 2016 A symbolic statement against poaching will take place for the first time in the United States. The San Diego Zoo Safari Park will host… Continue Reading
China’s Safari World closes after free-roaming tigers snatch woman who left car after argument July 26, 2016 Officials have shut down China’s largest zoo with mountain wildlife that roam around while visitors drive through after a horrifying fatal mauling when tigers snatched two… Continue Reading
