The Asian swamp eel is an air-breathing, mud-loving predator spreading throughout the United States. These slithering threats ...

BANGKOK (AP) – Squealing tiger cubs stuffed into carry-on bags. Luggage packed with hundreds of squirming tortoises, elephant tusks, even water dragons and American Paddlefish. Officials at Thailand’s ...

A new photo book by authors and photographers Bjorn Olesen and Fanny Lai aims to raise awareness of Asia’s impressive biodiversity and protected areas, and inspire mindful ecotourism that supports ...

Social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram are increasingly being used in Asia as platforms for the illegal trade in a range of threatened species such as orangutan and sun bears, conservation ...

Deep within the untouched rainforests and mist-covered mountains of Asia roams a predator that few have seen but many revere, the Asian Golden Cat (Catopuma temminckii). Often described as the “hidden ...

On Global Tiger Day today, WWF is urging tiger-range governments to strengthen anti-poaching efforts and crack down on a severe wildlife snaring crisis that is threatening wildlife across Asia, ...

BBC Studios and China’s Orient International Holding Shanghai Foreign Trade Co. are planning to supersize natural history. They have struck a co-production and co-distribution deal to create Asia: ...

Thai police have arrested an alleged kingpin in Asia's illegal trade in endangered species, dealing a blow to a family-run syndicate that smuggles elephant ivory, rhino horn and tiger parts to Chinese ...

A U.N.-backed report has found that nominally protected migratory species face the rising risk of extinction amid habitat loss and overexploitation worldwide. Of the 1,200 species listed in the ...

The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has brought the link between zoonotic diseases - those transmitted from animals to humans - and wildlife markets into sharp focus. As the world grapples with the worst ...