Despite a continent-wide ban, illegal trafficking of the beasts of burden continues to thrive in Africa, with local ...

The Chairman Niger Foods, Mr Sammy Adigun, earlier explained that the Brazilian companies, JBS and JBJ were bringing investment into the country and are engaged in animal production and processing ...

Abducting people and whisking their victims into the impenetrable forests, where the killer herdsmen/kidnappers demand ...

Proud parents Mommy and Abrazzo are both nearly 100 years old, but they’re contributing to Galápagos tortoise conservation at ...

Musa was asleep in the village of Dusuman in northeast Nigeria when he was awoken by a sharp burst of gunfire and Boko Haram ...

The Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES) is set to establish and equip 20 model veterinary hospitals across Nigeria’s ...

"Alarming" levels of microplastic have been found in major rivers across Europe according to scientists in 14 studies ...

The world is facing an intensifying battle against high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI), as the latest data from the ...

and Niger. Their range is broken up by grazing lands for livestock, and they’re at risk from hunting. Reintroduction of captive-bred animals has had mixed success. This California butterfly lost ...

Philadelphia Zoo recently hatched eggs laid by an elderly western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis niger porteri), named Mommy. Her exact age is unknown, but Mommy has been at the zoo ...