This blog is the third in a series of four blog articles that will highlight marine conservation work in Ivory Coast. Follow along for the rest of the series! It isn’t rare for fishermen in Ivory ...

ATLANTA, GA – Zoo Atlanta said Tuesday it is mourning the loss of a 50-year-old gorilla named Machi. The zoo said she had “been living with chronic osteoarthritis that had become increasingly severe” ...

The zoo industry has long studied the physiological and behavioral effects visitors can have on animal welfare. While some studies (many problematically sponsored by the zoo industry itself) have ...

Along the shores of Ivory Coast, an exciting story with a hopeful ending is quietly unfolding. With support from Born Free USA, Ivory Coast authorities recently launched community outreach activities ...

Large sharks, particularly great whites, have a very poor track record of surviving in captivity, with most dying within days or even hours of capture. The first attempt to keep a great white shark in ...

Punch, a baby Japanese macaque born at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, has recently become a viral sensation. Punch was sadly rejected by his mother soon after his birth and has suffered seemingly ...

Wildlife conservation and animal advocacy nonprofit, Born Free USA, has today released Clawing at the Cages: Big Cats in Zoos, a major new report detailing the suffering of big cats in captivity. The ...

This National Wildlife Week, we want to share some good news to help uplift our wildlife warriors in a world that can seem constantly oversaturated with stories resulting in doom and gloom. For a ...

A new article, Identifying inconsistencies in exotic pet regulations that perpetuate trade in risky species (Pratt et al., 2023), discusses the main consequences that result from the severely flawed ...

Interacting with wild animals can be dangerous and has led to major pandemics like SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), Ebola, MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus), COVID-19 ...

Trophy hunters claim that trophy hunting provides widespread and important economic benefits to local communities where hunts take place. In truth, very little revenue generated by trophy hunting ...