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World

French marine park closes over law banning killer whale shows

A French marine park on Sunday closed down definitively over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals.

AFPJanuary 5, 2025

The wolf's success has been a cause of controversy

World

Wildlife commission lowers European wolf protections

Dozens of countries on Tuesday approved downgrading the protection status of the wolf in Europe, a move activists say will upset the recovery made...

AFPDecember 3, 2024

Habitat loss and ruthless hunting have caused a rapid decline in the number of Philippine Eagles

World

Philippine Eagle hatchling dies in conservation setback

A Philippine Eagle chick hatched via artificial insemination has died, an avian conservation foundation has announced, in a fresh setback for one of the...

AFPNovember 30, 2024

Elephants bathe in a pond at the Elephant Conservation Center in Laos' Sainyabuli province

World

Researchers analyse DNA from dung to save Laos elephants

Slow and silent, former logging elephant Mae Khoun Nung emerges from a forest in northern Laos and follows her guide to an animal hospital for...

AFPNovember 29, 2024

The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long suffered from a growing and aggressive monkey population

World

Law and disorder as Thai police station comes under monkey attack

Police in central Thailand said they barricaded themselves into their own station over the weekend, after a menacing mob of 200 escaped monkeys ran...

AFPNovember 18, 2024

Quadrobics is a fitness and social media trend that involves imitating the movements of four-legged animals

Tech & Science

Fur flies as Russia takes on young fans of ‘quadrobics’

Yana, a 12-year-old Moscovite, is worried she will have to give up her hobby of quadrobics — a fitness and social media trend that...

AFPNovember 8, 2024

New Yorker Mark Longo said he rescued Peanut after seeing his mother killed by a car, going on to bottle feed the baby black squirrel, similar to the one pictured here

Tech & Science

Nuts! NY authorities euthanize Instagram squirrel star

A squirrel named Peanut who was propelled to the heights of internet celebrity has been euthanized, New York authorities said Friday, biting a government...

AFPNovember 1, 2024

Britain's King Charles III chats with the owner of an alpaca named Hephner before leaving the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on October 21, 2024.

World

Sartorially suave alpaca sneezes on King Charles

King Charles joked Monday about past encounters with Australia’s formidable wildlife — brown snakes, leeches, funnel web spiders and bull ants. He did not...

AFPOctober 21, 2024