In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals – monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe – stand at attention in a clearing. Their handlers, puppeteers ...

Mites are common in the Antarctic – there are hundreds of species. Some even live in the nasal cavities of penguins. Penguin ...

Not every animal you see lives on land. Some dwell or spend most of their day underground. These animals can be found across continents including deserts and the Arctic. For these animals, living ...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), whose future is in doubt since Donald Trump returned to the White House, provides duty-free access to the United States for certain African ...

Several new babies were born, hatched and morphed at Brookfield Zoo Chicago Zoo since January, including Humboldt penguin ...

The colourful tropical birds are native to West Africa and Southern India, so what on earth are the little green birds doing ...

Matambire Mgemaa, a pastoralist in southern Tanzania in the environs of Ruaha National Park, nighttime has meant staying ...

South Africa is unleashing weevils imported from the United States in a bid to fight off the sprouting growth of Salvinia minima, an alien species of aquatic plant native to South America that is chok ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The case reflects the difficulties many African countries are faced with when balancing the need to conserve wildlife with the impact wild animals have on the people who share their habitat.

The genus Abrus consists of around 17 species distributed across Africa, Madagascar, India and Indo-China. Among them, the jequirity bean (Abrus precatorius L.) is probably the best and widest known ...