In the weekend markets of Assam, pairs of Japanese quails (Coturnix japonica) are sold for around Rupees 250, popularised by vendors as high nutritional delicacy with health-boosting eggs. This small ...

Japan's Environment Ministry removed for the first time the red-crowned crane, also known as the Japanese crane, from its list of threatened species on Tuesday. The ministry's assessment of the bird, ...

The species saw its population drop to as low as 33 in 1952 due to overhunting, but after conservation efforts about 1,200 ...

Zoo New England, which consists of the Massachusetts-based Franklin Park and Stone Zoos, has launched a historic conservation program. The goal is to preserve fragile land not in the U.S., but in ...

Every year, many non-venomous snakes are killed just because people can’t tell them apart from dangerous ones.