Study suggests that appetite for bushmeat -- rather than black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine -- is ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species ...

The United States on Monday moved to extend federal protections to all species of pangolins — a step that would tighten trade restrictions and highlight the urgent conservation plight of the world's ...

The world’s most trafficked mammal on ‘razor’s edge of extinction’ - Theanimals are heavily trafficked, largely due to demand ...

Pangolins are hunted mainly for meat across Africa, with local demand - not trade - driving their decline toward extinction.

Are you ready to get to know your animals? Here are 57 African animals with horns - 12 of which we'll highlight in detail.

Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

There are 147 bird species categorised as threatened or near-threatened in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini, according to the revised Red Data Book of Birds (RDB-online) launched by BirdLife.

With its intricate, patterned shell, the near-threatened Karoo tent tortoise is a unique and hard-to-find resident of South Africa's drylands. This is just one dryland species that conservation ...

Pictures can be challenging, uplifting, provocative or revelatory. A black rhino bull lies dead after its killers entered the Hluhluwe Imfolozi Park, South Africa illegally. An autopsy found that the ...

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