Aerial surveys by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society confirm the existence of more than 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope and Mongalla gazelle in Southern Sudan, where wildlife was thought to have vanished as a result of decades-long conflict. Despite the war, some species of wildlife in Southern Sudan, last surveyed more than 25 years ago, have not only survived but have thrived east of the Nile River in numbers that rival those of the Serengeti.

The wild tiger now occupies a mere 7 percent of its historic range, and the area known to be inhabited by tigers has declined by 41 percent over the past decade, according to an article published in the June 2007 issue of BioScience. Growing trade in folk medicines made from tiger parts and tiger skins, along with habitat loss and fragmentation, is believed to be the chief reason for the losses.

Scientists are full of optimism after the wounded whales, the mother and the calf, had 39 km of successful swim in 24 hours to the Pacific.

There is growing public support in China for the need to protect the world's dwindling shark population, but little understanding about the connection between conservation and shark finning, according to a survey.

Scientists are worried about two whales lost in 150km inland in Californian river. It is getting more and more difficult to make them swim to Pacific Ocean.

Female shark became the first vertebrate to reproduce without mating with male. Scientists couldn't find male DNA in the new born baby hammerhead.

The 40 ton whale and her 20 ton calf stuck in Port of Sacramento started swimming back to Pacific on Sunday very unexpectedly.

Before destroying another landscape, natural habitat, community, or human life, we need to seriously assess the claims made to promote and defend industrial wind energy development.

Two whales are not responding to the scientists' recorded whale calls to swim back to the ocean. They swam about 148 kilometres up rivers to California's Central Valley.

This month will be no ordinary month for 12-year-old Henry Ramage of Cape Cod, MA.

Realizing a dream articulated in 2003 by renowned biologist E.O. Wilson, Harvard and four partner institutions have launched an ambitious effort to create an Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), an unprecedented project to document online every one of Earth's 1.8 million known species. For the first time in history, the EOL would grant scientists, students, and others multimedia access to all known living species, even those just discovered

Seventeen Asiatic Lions died in Gir sanctuary in Gujarat, India, in the past four months, eight of them due to poaching, and the government has decided to shift other members of the endangered species to a forest reserve in Madhya Pradesh.