Making the discovery was awful, said seabird conservationist at pioneering colony

The birds, which are native to equatorial Africa, have been decimated by the international pet trade

The Cape parrot is an endangered species largely because of human activity such as logging the forests where they are found

Halting fishing will be of little to no benefit to the penguins and fishers believe it will be a sad Christmas

So far, 148 juvenile African penguins have been released at De Hoop Nature Reserve in a bid to establish a new breeding colony

With its reedbed wetlands, the marshy plain of the Fens near Cambridge has become an attractive habitat for the bittern, which was, until 2015, on the United Kingdom’s red list…

Residents must have permits to have the endangered plants but they are victim to criminal demand for the ‘living fossils’

The departments of environment and agriculture legislation are at odds over modifying the genes of wild animals

Forest elephants are on the brink of extinction and savanna elephants are now classified as endangered

But endangered sharks and rays are falling through the net, and other imperilled species are being scooped up as bycatch, conservation groups warn

Loss of habitat to agriculture, the spread of invasive species and changes to natural fire cycles are biggest culprits