Picture courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Corneille Ewango of the Wildlife Conservation Society today received the prestigious Picture courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize for ...

Some of Earth’s rarest animals are so elusive they feel more like folklore than flesh and bone. We often think of endangered ...

The Sacramento Zoo is celebrating a special milestone. The zoo, founded in 1927, had the very first okapi birth in its nearly ...

A Hampshire zoo has said it is "excited" to welcome the birth of an endangered Okapi calf for the third time in three years. Marwell Zoo in in Colden Common near Winchester celebrated the calf's ...

The San Diego Zoo announced Tuesday the second birth of a rare okapi calf in its program to bring the endangered relative of the giraffe back from the brink of extinction. The okapi is a large animal ...

EPULU, Democratic Republic of Congo - I awoke shortly after dawn to a natural orchestra of sounds drifting through the Congolese rain forest. Ten pygmies with razor-sharp arrows and bows were milling ...

According to the Audubon Nature Institute, 8-year-old Aslili is due to give birth to her second calf sometime at the end of ...

The Los Angeles Zoo this week announced its first birth of a rare okapi -- also known as a forest giraffe. The calf was born Aug. 26 but until now was kept out of public view while it bonded with his ...

Almasi, whose name means "diamond" in Swahili, peeked out from beneath her mom Desi's watchful gaze at their enclosure at the Dallas Zoo. The okapis are among six at the zoo. Almasi will join the ...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida zoo says an endangered distant relative of a giraffe has died, less than two months after its birth. ZooTampa at Lowry Park said Thursday that laboratory tests suggest the ...

The reserve, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, occupies about a fifth of the Ituri forest in the north-east DRC. Industrial activity is banned across its 13,000 square kilometres. But the Alerte ...

The discovery of the okapi shocked the world in 1901. African explorer, Henry Stanley, called it “donkey-like,” while others thought it a new species of zebra, given the stripes. However, this ...