A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.

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The two, a political consultant and a translator, denied allegations of fomenting protests last year.

Court cases in Kenya point to a growing market for ants as exotic pets in Asia and Europe that has implications for conservation and biosecurity

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The reintroduction of elephant trophy hunting in Botswana in 2019, following a five-year moratorium, is likely severely depleting the number of large, older bulls, according to a recent report. This h...

An unplanned experiment takes scientists closer to solving a long-standing mystery: To what extent, if any, have human-created emissions influenced thunderstorms?

Six individuals have been arrested on suspicion of international trafficking of more than 960 rhino horns in South Africa.

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International cooperation is widely considered necessary to prevent the over-exploitation of threatened species in trade. The Convention on Internatio…

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The Agriculture Department said it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest System.

The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

Research looking at hygiene and healthcare habits of the primates finds implications for understanding origin of human healthcare Humans are not unique in having a host of hygiene and healthcare habits, researchers have found: chimpanzees also wipe their bottoms, tend each other’s wounds and even clean up after sex, according to a new study. The research from the University of Oxford is not the first to show that great apes take care of themselves. Scientists have previously found chimpanzees use insects to treat their own wounds and those of others, while orangutans have been observed treating wounds with the sap and chewed leaves of plants with known medicinal properties. Continue reading...