A 10-year survey on habits and attitudes in Hong Kong regarding shark fin soup consumption has revealed that the city is embracing a more...

High temperatures have contributed to an increase in human activity-related African wild dog deaths, with humans responsible for almost...

On May 4 2021, the New York Court of Appeals made history by agreeing to hear the habeas corpus case of Happy the Elephant, an...

A new One Health High-Level Expert Panel has been launched by various international organisations to improve understanding of how...

Coral reefs are facing events of severe bleaching and physical destruction due to human coastal development, as well as the effects of...

When COVID-19 emerged in early 2020 in Southeast Asia, its governments took rapid containment actions: lockdowns, travel restrictions and...

We have all learned considerable lessons during the course of the coronavirus pandemic, but none harsher than our fraught relationship...

The ocean is at the front line of mitigating the climate crisis. Making up over 70% of the Earth’s surface, the ocean plays a crucial...

In 2019, Hong Kong customs authorities inspected a cargo ship bound for Vietnam. Hidden beneath slabs of frozen meat were 8.3 metric tons...

Ecuador has confirmed that a giant tortoise found in 2019 in the Galapagos Islands is a species thought to have gone extinct 112 years...

The Orangutan Project, an organisation focused on securing the survival of orangutans and other critically endangered species, has seen...

Mainland Australia is celebrating the birth of seven Tasmanian devil joeys born to adults released last year into a wild sanctuary, the...

The Big 5 are generally seen as the most difficult animals to kill, but a new project by photographers is changing this, creating a new...

Many people readily consume leather goods on the grounds that it’s a by-product of animals slaughtered for meat, thinking that no...

In the evening of March 23, the Hong Kong Snakes Facebook group of 12 000-plus members saw a post from local police snake catcher William...

The world is heating up largely due to the burning of fossil fuels and the environment is being changed by the rising temperature. Some...

The team works quickly. As soon as a rhino is safely sedated, they motor up a chainsaw and begin shearing off the animal’s signature...

Lion breeding in South Africa and trade in products such as their bones should be ended, according to the country’s Environment Minister...

Biodiversity is declining at such a rate that we are undeniably on a path to a sixth mass extinction event.  “The scale of threats to the...

Every item of food has a story to tell. Kiwifruits may grow in New Zealand, but they can be flown across the world to sit on a grocery...