As far as congregations go, there would be few as unquestioning as this one.

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In the Facebook video that he claimed to have shot, Todd Orr's face was covered in blood. "Yeah, life sucks in bear country," the 50-year-old said.

The United Nations has called for the shutdown of all legal domestic ivory markets as it looks to combat poaching and put pressure on countries that continue to trade in elephant tusks.

South Africa's Kruger National Park is littered in places with the trunks of trees uprooted and stripped of bark by a surging population of elephants, a frequent sight in the reserve.

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Today presents an opportunity for humanity as a whole to reflect on the relationship we have with the animal kingdom.

The first ever comprehensive study into the sale of ivory and rhino horn in Australian and New Zealand auction houses has found trade of the product still takes place.

Zoological Society alarmed by new bill that abandons protection for three-quarters of native animals.

* Pangolins regarded as most poached animal on the planet

Animal rights activists have called for an investigation after one of two lions which escaped from their cage at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany was shot dead.

More polar bears are being shot dead on Norway's remote Arctic islands, where dangerous encounters with humans are getting more frequent as visitors increase and global warming melts the sea ice on which the creatures roam.

Guy Innes was sitting on his porch enjoying a coffee when he noticed a koala strolling across a beach to access the water at Salamander Bay.

The future of air safety could lie in the example of Drongo, Nemo and Titan.

Resources and construction slump brings search for alternatives.

At 5.30am on a Sunday morning exactly 100 years ago, Jessie, a 3600 kilogram elephant sauntered through Sydney's CBD.

Male redbacks have a previously unknown evolutionary trick to mate more than once.

Cuddling a kitten may always make you feel better - but it could be dangerous to your health, experts say.

For generations of pet owners feeding bones to their dogs has seemed as natural and healthy as letting them run free across fields and meadows.

As the greyhound racing industry lurches from one controversy to another – most significantly in New South Wales, where it will soon be banned – attention has turned to saving the animals from a deadly fate.

Spring is in the air, which means one thing is certain: it's magpie swooping season. 

Those of you heading for a beach holiday this summer might want to consider doing a free online training package before taking off, it could help save a turtle's life.

A concerted effort is underway to save the endangered golden shouldered parrot of remote Cape York.

I was scrolling through Instagram when I saw it: a white fuzz ball of a baby seal, snuggling in a snowdrift. You better believe I liked it ... then I read the caption.

How Queensland's current magpie relocation program came to be.

Canberra's Anke Maria Hoefer is known for talking to frogs but she believes it is learning how to listen to them that will save the species.

We are so used to bad news about climate change it is a little hard to process this.

Illegal hunting in Democratic Republic of Congo has wiped out 70 per cent of Eastern gorillas in the past two decades and pushed the world's biggest primate close to extinction, a Red List of endangered species shows.

A largely unknown creature, the pangolin holds the undesirable title of being the most poached and illegally trafficked mammal in the world. Scientists believe more than 1 million have been killed in the past decade.

You'd think researchers who encounter some of the nastiest diseases affecting Australian animals would want to destroy them pronto. But that's not the case.

Dogs pay attention to the meaning of words, a new study shows.

Firefighters are using fire-opitc cameras find and rescue a dog trapped inside a disused concrete power pole in Conder.