Artificial walkways in the Amazon rainforest aren't only being used by researchers and tourists to safely traverse the canopy. It turns out that these passages are also convenient for the local ...

A new wooded outdoor habitat modeled after the Himalayan foothills is slated to open at the Minnesota Zoo this weekend and will feature red pandas, cranes and a deer. The Red Panda Forest Habitat, on ...

The Indiana Forest Alliance and a team of scientists spent years identifying the plants and animals in Indiana’s backcountry and have now documented those efforts in a new book. “Ecoblitz, an Indiana ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland Metroparks Zoo broke ground on its new, state-of-the-art Primate Forest campus-destination on Tuesday morning, marking the beginning of the zoo’s largest capital ...

OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) — Sunday Abiodun, carrying a sword in one hand and balancing a musket over his other shoulder, cleared weeds on a footpath leading to a cluster of new trees. Until ...

Nigeria’s Cross River state, famed for its gorillas, chimpanzees, drill monkeys and forest elephants, is also part of an ecological region known to harbor the greatest diversity of dragonflies and ...

Families in Chicagoland can now explore lush rainforests and watch chimps swing through towering trees all without leaving the state. The Brookfield Zoo, the largest zoo in the Chicago area, will ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider monkeys ...

The first major new exhibit to be constructed at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo in nearly a decade, Forest Trailhead establishes a new center of gravity at the zoo — one bringing conservation awareness ...

New research analyzing more than 3,000 tropical forest sites reveals that areas with fewer seed-dispersing animals store up to four times less carbon than forests with healthy wildlife populations.