Santa chose the perfect present for a penguin fan like me when he put Planet Penguin in my stocking at Christmas.

Nikuru the giraffe, two months old, is the youngest of Auckland Zoo's four giraffes.

The Surabaya Zoo is a nightmare, plagued by uncontrolled breeding, a lack of funding for general animal welfare and even suspicions that staff are involved in illegal wildlife trafficking.

Hamilton Zoo has welcomed the arrival of a newborn baby Southern white rhinoceros.

Hunting gannets are in constant danger of killing each other in underwater collisions.

Evidence shows that bee populations are collapsing across the world because of environmental stressors such as pesticides and the proliferation of specialised, single crop farms as well as a reduction in nectar and pollen caused by urbanisation.

A retired race horse was butchered and dumped on a driveway - and revenge or the horse's meat have...