Luke Hunter, president and chief conservation officer of the global wild cat organisation Panthera, received an email last week from one of his group's partners in Tanzania. When he opened the attached photos, Hunter said, "My jaw just dropped."
It was meant to be a harmless selfie, designed to highlight the plight of the endangered crested black macaque.
Drinking straws, coffee cups, bait bags and releasing helium balloons need to be banned in Queensland, environmental groups argue.
Antarctica's native species are facing invasion as climate change dramatically expands the continent's ice-free zones, a new study warns.
A new report into the value of the at-threat Great Barrier Reef has been revealed the 2300 kilometre reef is too big to fail.
The grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park has been protected for more than four decades. But no more.
This weekend could be the perfect time to go whale watching.
Scientists have plucked some unknown species from depths of the abyss off Australia's east coast.
Keeping the Sydney Opera House healthy and clean is an act of love by Steve Tsoukalas for the "other woman" in his life.
Nationalists in the Trump administration are right. The decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord was correct.
Platypus numbers across southern Australia are dropping due to loss of habitat, traps and pollution.
Sydney's Taronga Zoo is celebrating the birth of a male Asian elephant.
Every 15 minutes, an elephant is killed by poachers in Africa. Despite this, there is new cause for optimism.
Street smarts are the key to boosting the wild population of Tasmanian devils, scientists say.
Scientists exploring the abyss off Australia's east coast expect to see many new creatures.
The theme park made the announcement through Facebook saying the cub had died on Saturday, while the other one was doing well and bonding with its mother.
A Gold Coast theme park is celebrating after the birth of two polar bear cubs.
A six-month trial of surf nets on the state's north coast is coming to an end – with mixed results.
Naked mole rats are marvellous and bizarre mammals; they don't get tumours, they live like social insects and are "cold-blooded" like frogs. And that's just for starters.
Attendance at SeaWorld Entertainment's theme parks has been falling amid negative publicity and criticism from animal rights activists upset by the treatment of captive marine mammals.
At long last, April the giraffe gave birth on Saturday to a long-overdue calf as more than a million people around the world watched live.
By snapping its enlarged claw shut at rapid speed, the shrimp creates a high-pressure bubble that collapses to produce one of the loudest sounds in the ocean.
A study has shown that three-quarters of antiques dealers admit being aware of illegal trading, knowing colleagues or auctioneers who sell modern ivory by passing it off under the guise of still-legal pre-1947 artefacts.
She now tops 45 kilograms, meaning her days of napping on her human caretakers' laps are dwindling.
March has not just been great weather for ducks - but also for mushroom pickers.
A 25-year-old Thai sea turtle died from blood poisoning on Tuesday, never recovering from an operation to remove 915 coins from her stomach, thrown into her pool for good luck, veterinarians said.
Taronga Zoo is celebrating the arrival of an endangered pygmy hippo calf, the first born at the zoo in nearly seven years.
Thai customs have confiscated 21 rhino horns with an estimated value of nearly $US5 million ($6.6 million) in the biggest such seizure in Thailand for years, officials said on Tuesday.
Tasmanian devils with tumours the size of golf balls have had their cancerous growths disappear, after scientists successfully trialled a new way to kick-start the animals' immune system.
Cheetahs are on the precipice of extinction, yet small homeless mutts - found on the street - may be one of the keys to their survival.