A former zoo owner, Frank Thompson, brought Connie to the U.S. with seven other elephant babies who were orphaned in Zimbabwe in 1987 when poachers killed the adults in the herd for their tusks.

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal ...

Volunteering with elephants isn't about riding them like jungle royalty, or just about tossing sugarcane for selfies. Ethical ...

They will likely be charged with violating a law that carries heavy penalties. Authorities make stunning discovery after tip ...

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

A visionary leader in biotech and wildlife conservation, Dr Paul Bartels, leaves a legacy of innovation that will save the lives of threatened African wildlife species.

TV naturalist Chris Packham has issued a call to Buckinghamshire residents to support a ban on trophy hunting.

Without breeding farms, donkey slaughter threatens to shrink population of essential working animals in the country ...

A zoo in the U.S. state of Kansas has welcomed the birth of a healthy baby pygmy hippopotamus, raising hope for a species ...