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An Alaska man has been federally charged with illegally killing a polar bear and leaving its carcass to rot in his front yard for five months, authorities said last week.

CHARLES CITY, Va. (AP) — Sturgeon were America's vanishing dinosaurs, armor-plated beasts that crowded the nation's rivers until mankind's craving for caviar pushed them to the edge of extinction.

Every package found is one step closer to helping keep wild animals everywhere safe.

An actress from South Korea could face prison time in Thailand for allegedly catching endangered clams during the filming of a TV show, according to reports.

BERLIN (AP) — Scientists in Europe said Tuesday they've successfully transferred a test tube rhino embryo back into a female whose eggs were fertilized in vitro, as part of an effort to save another nearly extinct sub-species of the giant horned mammal.

According to the Botswanan government, more than 500 vultures were poisoned after eating elephant carcasses that were laced with chemicals. It is not clear why the birds were poisoned, but, according to the BBC, vultures circling a carcass can alert authorities to the presence of poachers. The breakdown of vultures included 10 cape vultures, 14 lappet faced vultures, 468 white backed vultures, 17 white headed vultures and 28 hooded vultures.

More than 500 vultures in Botswana have been poisoned after elephant carcasses were laced with chemicals.

Marine biologists have for the first time recorded the “song” of the rare eastern North Pacific right whale, of which fewer than 30 remain on the planet.

Tam was Malaysia’s last surviving male Sumatran rhinoceros. Today, the 35-year-old died surrounded by his caretakers and vets at the Borneo Rhino Sanctuary that had been struggling to save his species.

Botswana has lifted its elephant hunting ban, after a five-year probation period.