The small animals, whose scales are coveted for use ... an estimated one million pangolins were poached from 2000 through 2013—mainly for their scales, used in traditional medicine.

Bodies of the couple, identified as Bolaram Galel and Bala Galel, were found entangled in live wires allegedly set up by ...

For decades the Lord’s Resistance Army, a brutal cultlike group, battled Ugandan troops and poached animals in the park until being ousted in the mid-2000s. The result was a catastrophic decline ...

According to the IUCN African Rhino Specialist Group, rhino poaching in South Africa increased from 13 animals killed in 2007 to 1,215 killed in 2014 (the all-time high), a jump of 9,000 percent.

A melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger was killed by poachers in Similipal Tiger Reserve, the world's only habitat for these rare ...

The Akashinga, or “brave ones,” survived abuse and exploitation. Now, armed and trained like special forces, they're protecting the country’s most iconic wildlife. Petronella Chigumbura, a ...

Humans' increasingly large footprint across the planet is forcing plants & animals to adapt and is affecting some species' evolutionary path.