Loose Lion Terrorizes Village in Brazil
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Police were searching on Friday for a lion that reportedly has terrorized a small village in northeastern Brazil for a week.    Residents lock their doors when darkness falls in Santa Barbara, about 700 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro...
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Lions in the Tsavo region of southeastern Kenya are prone to prey on livestock during the rainy season: Researchers hope the finding can help ranchers&#151;and save lions.
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A Portuguese-sounding version of the virus has appeared in the wild. Be wary of mail from Manaus.
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Berlin: A wild bull on the loose in southern Germany was brought under control by the charms of a cow which lured the distressed male back to the barn, Police said on Friday.
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Brazilian police seize a big load of illegally logged lumber as officials start new  moves to tackle Amazon deforestation.
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MEXICO CITY - For one northern Mexican town, an army of cats seemed like the best strategy against a plague of mice. But the cats proved no match for the problem, and now the town is pinning its hopes on a more lethal predator: men armed with cash incentives.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A lion attacked a man who jumped into the animal's enclosure and shouted &quot;Jesus will save you!&quot; at the big cat Wednesday at the zoo in Taiwan's capital.
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Attacks by elephants on villages, people and other animals are on the rise. Some researchers are pointing to a species-wide trauma and the fraying of the fabric of pachyderm society.
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A neglected Romanian lion has been rescued and shipped to the Born Free Center at Shamwari Game Reserve in South Africa.
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A lion attacked an animal keeper at a zoo Thursday, leaving her with serious wounds before fellow workers could shoo the beast away.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A wave of assaults on tourists in this seaside resort city has authorities scrambling to contain the violence as they prepare for the annual high travel summer season.
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A lion has attacked a man who jumped into its enclosure shouting &quot;Jesus will save you!&quot;, at a zoo in Taiwan&#39;s capital.
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BLAIRMORE, Alta. (CP) - A woman who stumbled upon a grizzly bear sow and two cubs in a wilderness area of southwestern Alberta was mauled Thursday but managed to escape.
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By MICHAEL ASTOR  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The rate of destruction of the Amazon rain forest is slowing, although ranchers, loggers and soybean farmers are illegally removing thousands of square miles of trees each year, the Brazilian government said Tuesday.
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Ethiopia is a perilous place to be an Abyssinian lion &#151; so perilous that an Italian aid group brought two orphaned cubs to the Italian Embassy, where the wife of a diplomat has been caring for them inside a fenced garden.
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Brazil launched an emergency plan on Friday to save what remains of its vast tropical savanna, much of which has been cleared for farming in recent decades.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Grieving relatives of 155 people killed in Brazil's worst aviation disaster arrived in the Amazon on Monday to fly over the wreckage as searchers tried to recover corpses in the dense jungle.