Handler defends moving the reptile in extreme conditions after media highlight animal's death from hypothermia.

Scientist and senator calls for thousands of Baikal's endemic seals to be hunted.

New video footage shows Amur the tiger lashing at Timur the goat - but then jumping back as if scared of the animal's horns.

Bears are increasingly coming out of the forest in search of food, say wildlife experts.

Skin and skull of rare animal was hidden in the suspect's car.

Wild animal uses eye contact to 'flatter' biologist Alexander Yakovlev - hoping for a tasty breakfast - at dawn on the shores of the freezing Gulf of Ob.

At least eight black bears killed in terrorised Luchegorsk as starving wild animals roam streets and go on the attack. 

The marine mammals were washed ashore on an 800 kilometre stretch of the region's Arctic coast.

Amur leopards are the most endangered cat on the planet, but this shot is seen as 'the best ever taken' of the species by a photo trap.

How a poacher turned gamekeeper is helping the survival of these endangered cats.