China on Sunday ordered a temporary ban on the trade in wild animals as the country struggles to contain a deadly virus believed to have been spawned in a market that sold wild animals as food.

One of five sick and malnourished lions held at a park in the Sudanese capital died Monday, an official said, amid a growing online campaign to save the animals.

Japan has given the green light to a controversial research process involving implanting animals with human stem cells that could eventually help grow human organs for transplant inside animal hosts.

A zoo in northern England said its animals were safe after a fire broke out on Saturday in its Monsoon Forest section, the largest indoor zoological building in Britain, forcing an evacuation.

The exhibition, titled “African Safari”, displays pictures of wild animals and nature, selected from the photographer’s collection of his safari trips in Africa.

Widam Food Company will provide and slaughter the animals as per the legal and health regulations. QRCS's personnel will distribute the meat to families in need.

A total of nine rhinos died, Tourism Minister Najib Balala said, raising the toll from the eight reported on Friday.

Two beluga whales performing in a Shanghai aquarium are to be flown to a new sanctuary in Iceland, giving hope to more than 3,000 captive cetaceans as the popularity of marine shows wanes.

All animal samples, including those from bats, cattle, goats and pigs from the southern state of Kerala were negative for Nipah,

A lot is in store for children at the 7th Halal Qatar Festival, currently underway at Katara - the Cultural Village.

Thai police have arrested an alleged kingpin in Asia's illegal trade in endangered species, dealing a blow to family-run syndicate that smuggles elephant ivory, rhino horn and tiger parts ...

The Gulf sultanate of Oman is looking to carve itself a new niche in ecotourism by opening up a sanctuary for one of the desert's most fabled creatures -- the Arabian oryx.