The birth of tortoises native to Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos increases their U.S. population from 44 to 48. A few ...

Tributes trickled in from around the world to mourn the death of a scientist after parts of his dismembered body were found ...

Known as destinations in their own right, these amazing zoos introduce U.S. audiences to wildlife from around the world.

The scientist found dismembered inside a suitcase in Colombia may have been lured into a trap, police fear. Alessandro Coatti ...

Historically, animals have been used by people in cruel and self-serving ways. New law challenges long-standing tradition at ...

For members of the Sani Warmi collective in Amazonian Ecuador, the day begins before sunrise. They tend to the chacra — their ...

Public health experts have highlighted the city’s wet markets as environments where viruses spreading between animal species can ... originally from Ecuador, recently picked up two chickens ...

About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to ...

Trees and wild animals can’t walk into a courtroom ... resulting in legal personhood for a river, national park and mountains. It was Ecuador’s strong Indigenous movements that led to the ...

Ecuador’s high court ultimately ruled that wild animals have rights that are protected under the country’s constitution. The monkeys, which inhabit numerous protected park and forest areas ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... or Tower Island, in Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands. Photograph by TUI DE ROY, MINDEN PICTURES During a courtship ...