Without Proof, an Ivory-Billed Boom Goes Bust
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The ivory-billed woodpecker supposedly spotted in a patch of Arkansas bayou has remained scarce, as has the economic upswing its admirers might have brought to the local community.
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An extremely rare Hawaiian bird has died in captivity, possibly marking the extinction of its species only 31 years after it was first discovered.
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MIAMI -- One evening last week, two roosters in a ring surrounded by cheering spectators pecked and clawed one another in a fight to the death. With each lunge, feathers flew, then floated to the ground. Finally, one bloodied bird, its eyes plucked out, lurched and faltered.
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TWITCHERS should book their plane tickets as soon as possible. Wildlife experts yesterday claimed to have discovered a new species of bird in the Philippines. But they immediately warned that the flightless Calayan rail could be driven to extinction by ...
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CALCUTTA, India - When his chickens started disappearing a few weeks ago, a farmer in eastern India figured dogs or jackals were to blame - until he discovered his calf making a meal of his poultry.
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A virus has emerged as the unanticipated suspect in the mysterious decline of North American bees.
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New data casts doubt on the popular theory that big North American mammals were wiped out by human hunting.
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Poaching is up in central Africa, but elephant herds are growing in the south. Nations are arguing over whether to lift the ban on ivory sales.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to spend more than $27 million on recovery efforts for the ivory-billed woodpecker, despite conflict views on whether it exists.
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he African elephant population was cut in half by poaching in the 1980&#39;s, and most conservationists agree that only a 1989 ban on the ivory trade saved the animal from extinction.
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New evidence casts doubt on the popular theory that sabre-toothed cats and mammoths were driven to extinction in North America by human hunting.
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A DNA trail has helped investigators trace the largest recent shipment of illegal ivory to elephants in Zambia.
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CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- After years of painstaking research, scientists say they have unleashed a baby boom among one of the world's most endangered animals, China's giant panda.
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GABORONE, Botswana  - When Uttum Corea arrived in  Africa from Sri Lanka he was puzzled by the widely held notion  that African elephants could not be tamed.
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A sharp rise in poaching is placing some rhino populations at risk of extinction, a report says.
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The hunting specialist fires a wild earnings miss.
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By Tim Johnson  It might have been the primeval forest noises. Or perhaps it was the tree-climbing kangaroos. It also could have been the cassowary, a flightless bird as tall as a grown man.