Earth News

Why is roadkill an environmental disaster?

But it might not be the animals most vulnerable to extinction who are at risk.

10/07/2020

Earth News

Lions’ whisker patterns are as unique as a human fingerprint

Now they are being used to keep track of how many of these majestic big cats are left in Kenya.

29/05/2020

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Estudiantes marks roaring return to stadium with flaming lion

Estudiantes de La Plata inaugurated their redeveloped Jorge Luis Hirschi Stadium in the most eye-catching fashion on Friday.

11/11/2019

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Leo the pet lion: a local celebrity in Iraq's Dohuk

Blend Mamoon turns heads when he roams the streets of the city of Dohuk with his pet, a year-old lion who came into Mamoon's care when he was just a 20-day-old cub.

05/09/2019

Czech Republic

Czech man killed by lion he kept as pet

A Czech man was mauled to death by a lion he illegally kept as a pet.

05/03/2019

USA

Mountain lion killed by Colorado jogger was an orphaned kitten

Travis Kauffman killed the young feline during a confrontation while he was running in Fort Collins last month.

01/03/2019

USA

USA: Indianapolis Zoo staff ‘devastated’ after lion killed by lioness

Nyack, a 10-year old lion, was attacked and killed by the mother of their three cubs, even though the pair had been held together for years.

22/10/2018

Netherlands

Jogger finds abandoned lion cub in the Netherlands

A veterinarian has been left staggered in the Netherlands after being called by police to collect an abandoned lion cub outside a nearby village.

07/10/2018

Germany

False alarm after five big dangerous cats 'escape' from German zoo

A local officer in western Germany raised a false alarm after reporting that two lions, two tigers, and a jaguar had broken out of a zoo.

01/06/2018

Sweden

Swedish zoo kills nine healthy lion cubs over six years

The CEO of Borås Zoo says putting down animals is normal practice if it becomes too expensive to look after them.

11/01/2018