How are biodiversity losses reshaping how ecosystems function? A recent study quantifies the impact of biodiversity and ...

The deadly virus behind bird flu has become better adapted to wild birds and is shifting from China to Europe and northern Africa, in what a study led by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has called ...

The Maryland Zoo welcomed 8 baby African penguins to its family. On Monday, the zoo announced the first two names of the baby ...

Maryland Zoo has hatched more than 1000 African penguins over the past 50 years, and the zoo claims it is home to the largest ...

WATTLED cranes are the largest crane species in Africa. They are only found on the continent and there are only about 9,600 left in Zambia, Botswana, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, ...

The threats to the migratory movements of land-bound wild animals are quite well known. Boundary fences, busy highways, human settlements and other physical obstacles have increasingly blocked or ...

The spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 among animals is unprecedented having been found on all continents -- except Oceania -- with the United Nations calling it "a global ...

South Africa’s most threatened bird, the Botha’s Lark, is teetering on the brink of becoming the country’s first recorded avian extinction, with fewer than 340 individuals thought to remain in the ...

CAPE TOWN, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in South Africa's Western Cape have confirmed new outbreaks of bird flu in the province, urging the public to "stay alert," but "not alarmed." "The Western ...