Wildlife trafficking is one of the world's biggest illegal trades, and the U.S. creates much of the demand for pet primates. Now there's a proposed ban on privately owning and breeding these animals.

The scale of the live wild animal trade in China is unclear, experts say. Many animals are poached, imported, and exported illegally—for food, medicine, trophies, and pets.

The EU has created its first law on the welfare of dogs and cats to be applied across the bloc, targeting illegal trade and ...

From July 1, food labels in Switzerland will have to disclose whether products of animal origin involve painful practices.

The illegal trade in wildlife is a continuing threat to global biodiversity, and marine organisms are victims in the same way as land animals. People participate in this trade because it is highly ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. ...

Its fur is uniquely spotted and striped, and its silent movement resembles a shadow in the thicket: The ocelot is one of the ...

In a disturbing case of medical misdiagnosis, an 18-year-old boy was treated for tuberculosis (TB) for six months before ...

"All her mind ever said was, 'I got to find places for these animals,'" Sandi Raines said of her late daughter, YouTuber ...

Raines, 23, had studied to be a vet tech, but dropped out of school to start Save A Fox, which became a 501 (c) (3)-registered charity in 2017. There, she takes in native animals that can’t be ...

Mikayla Raines, an animal rescuer who shared her work on YouTube, has died by suicide, her husband Ethan Frankamp shared on ...

Yuvi Agarwal, 12, founded the nonprofit Wild Tunes in 2023 and has enlisted about 100 volunteer musicians to play in animal ...