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Texas man sentenced after trafficking baby spider monkeys from Mexico --- A Texas man was sentenced in federal court on Friday to four months in custody and 180 days in home confinement after trafficking six protected Mexican Spider Monkeys, according to [...]

The dead hippos were found in Lake Edward, a lake straddling the border between the DRC and Uganda. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Bacillus anthracis causes anthrax, and this bacteria lives naturally in [...]

A Nevada man who was arrested Wednesday after seven tigers were seized from his home said they were his “emotional support animals.” Officials raided Karl Mitchell’s home in Pahrump on Wednesday morning and arrested him on suspicion of resisting [...]

As spring turns to summer in the southern hemisphere, the Punta Tombo Natural Protected Area on Argentina‘s central coast comes alive, with the chicks of some 180,000 pairs of nesting Magellanic penguins braying and peeping 24/7. That penguin-palooza was [...]

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? A new study shows that citizen science data from iNaturalist and eBird can reliably capture known [...]

A Colorado rancher has signed a first-of-its-kind agreement that will see a conservation organization help pay for his land leases in exchange for letting wildlife access it. America is a leader across many dimensions, few more so than in [...]

Researchers Cori Lausen and Maleen Mund step out of the warm spring sun and into a dimly lit workshop. The only light streams in through the doorway behind them and a few dusty windows. It’s been a cool start [...]

A South Carolina man pleaded guilty to importing and selling sperm whale teeth and bones, a violation of federal wildlife laws, the Justice Department announced. Lauren H. DeLoach, 69, of Saint Helena Island, admitted to importing sperm whale parts [...]

The wetlands of West Bengal in eastern India are one of the country’s best habitats for the fishing cat, a species vulnerable to extinction. But a significant population of these fish-eating, mid-sized wildcats lives outside protected areas, putting them [...]