Tigers are the largest cat species. The subspecies called Amur tigers, also known as Siberian tigers, are the biggest of ...

Wildlife releases are usually joyous events. Uplifting scenes of animals cautiously nosing the air as they take their first ...

From the last thylacine to Mollie the drinking, smoking orangutan, little Punch the monkey is the latest in a long line of lonely zoo animals.

World Animal Protection has written to the American ambassador, to India, Honourable Mr Sergio Gor, after news reports and ...

A new study has found that the wild can be a "death trap" for animals that are released from captivity after previously being rescued. The research, published in the journal Global Ecology and ...

All eyes are on Punch the monkey as he attempts to overcome being abandoned at birth and integrate with the rest of his troop ...

A new study tracked nine rescued slow lorises in Bangladesh and found that seven of them died within months of release.

The Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency (MTPA) is phasing out captive lion facilities in the province. Accordingly, no ...

PETA calls out treatment of viral baby monkey Punch: ‘Animals pay the lifelong price’ - Animal rights group says ‘zoos are not sanctuaries’ but places where animals are confined ...

Punch is the latest in a line of animals in zoos gaining online popularity, however Born Free urges fans and the wider public not to visit them.

Louis DiSabato, who led the zoo from 1968 to 1994, helped hand-raise Colo, the first gorilla born in captivity.