The world's top wildlife trade body rejected new protections for eels on Thursday in a secret ballot at talks in Uzbekistan. The proposal had been fiercely opposed by top eel consumers, particularly ...

Karuizawa, Nagano Pref. – In the summer resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, you’ll find Amelia Hiorns, 28, looking after the local bears at the Picchio Wildlife Research Center. Having joined ...

Himakajima is an island in Aichi Prefecture’s Mikawa Bay, south of Nagoya, with a population of less than 2,000 people. During the recently concluded summer vacation period, a temporary penguin ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- The "Monster Wolf," a robot developed at a small factory in Naie on Japan's northernmost main island, Hokkaido, is raising hopes -- and drawing a few double-takes -- in farming ...

The Tokara leaf warbler was once treated as part of the same species as the Ijima’s leaf warbler. Researchers from Uppsala University and partner institutions later found that birds from the Tokara ...