Dionne Christian explores how we can help our natural wonderlands for Conservation Week.

Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo is reporting the first live birth of an elephant through artificial insemination using frozen sperm.

A Gisborne man has been jailed for trying to set his dog on police, yelling "sic him" as the animal charged a constable.

News coverage of a New Zealand man who survived stranded on a remote Australian island was the first his Wellington family had heard of him in nearly 20 years.

A group of former All Blacks have beaten a team of Thai ladyboys in an elephant polo match.

They're little, they're fluffy and, for the first time, they're all ours.

A Vietnamese air passenger has been charged with smuggling live tropical fish in his trouser pockets after airport staff noticed water dripping down the man's leg.

Bino's back was killing him. He was suffering from scoliosis. He couldn't move his legs, two of them anyway, and his tail just wouldn't swish.

The native kakapo, one of the most endangered species in the world, has been named on a list of the ugliest animals in the world. The reason? Conservation.

An elderly female Sumatran tiger has died at Wellington Zoo, in a "devastating" blow for staff and regular visitors.

The return of sea otters in California's Monterey Bay has caused a remarkable recovery of endangered sea grasses.

I've always classified those horse-drawn carriages in Central Park alongside Venice's gondolas.

This labrador puppy nicknamed Richard Parker after the tiger in Life of Pi was found swimming for her life in San Francisco Bay.

Clever canines able to sniff out minute traces of peanuts could soon be available to help New Zealand children with severe allergies.

Neighbours of a house where a woman was mauled to death by rottweilers are outraged another big dog is at the address.

Senior Constable Bruce Lamb can still feel his beloved police dog Gage leaping over his head to take a bullet from a gunman.

Senior Constable Bruce Lamb can still feel his beloved police dog Gage leaping over his head to take a bullet from a gunman.

Two major New Zealand retailers have moved to stop stocking a controversial group of insecticides over claims they harm bees.

A dog owner who starved a puppy to death today "narrowly" escaped jail, but has been banned form owning animals for four years.

Why should dogs die so humans can get high? Animal testing takes lives, and humans and animals suffer.