It’s snow miracle: zookeepers in Phoenix surprise animals with icy wonderland
Tigers treated to frozen fish-sicles, with blood-sicles for African painted dogs and snow for all from 10 tons of ice
The big picture
The big picture: Central Park Zoo’s star turn by Thomas Hoepker
The German photographer, who died earlier this month, moved to New York in 1976 where he took many celebrated images including this shot of Gus the polar bear
The age of extinction
First Asian elephant vaccinated in fight against deadly herpes virus
Tess, a 40-year-old female at Houston zoo, has been given a trial mRNA vaccine to help combat the virus, a leading killer of calves in captivity
June 2024
China says farewell to two giant pandas traveling to San Diego zoo
Wolf attack at French zoo leaves woman fighting for life
The age of extinction
From showing animals for profit to protecting them: the reinvention of Buenos Aires zoo
China’s panda promise to Adelaide put in black and white as human rights protesters bear witness
Australia news live
Minns ‘really sorry’ final Vivid drone show cancelled with 20 minutes notice – as it happened
Panda diplomacy: Chinese premier Li Qiang could announce two new rare bears for Australia during state visit
The age of extinction
Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries
May 2024
Two giant pandas from China to arrive at US National Zoo
Seascape: the state of our oceans
‘Free Bella’: campaigners fight to save lonely beluga whale from Seoul mall
April 2024
Ostrich at Kansas zoo dies after swallowing employee’s keys
Staff at Topeka zoo are ‘devastated’ by death of Karen, who was known as the ‘dancing queen’
March 2024
I discovered …
I discovered why seemingly healthy amphibians were being wiped out
The mass deaths were puzzling scientists around the world – there were no signs of viruses or parasites. Then we looked closely at their skin
How two giant pandas loaned to Adelaide zoo tell the story of the ups and downs of China-Australia relations
Giant panda pair Wang Wang and Fu Ni have been on loan from Beijing since 2009 – now their future in Adelaide hangs in the balance
Inside the Frozen Zoo, where scientists put disappearing species on ice: ‘It’s banking hope’
At a San Diego laboratory, four women do the painstaking work of preserving cells amid a growing extinction crisis
February 2024
New York City’s Flaco the owl died from a traumatic impact, zoologists say
Cinnamon frog species in ‘perilous state’ successfully bred in UK
Texas zoo delivers baby gorilla via rare emergency C-section
Walnut, a white-naped crane with a Smithsonian zookeeper as a mate, dies at age 42
