Half the planet should be set aside solely for the protection of wildlife to prevent the "mass extinction" of species, according to one of the world's leading biologists.

Part of my job is running workshops for senior students interested in animal occupations. The most sought after career choices according to them are:

Traditionally it's the dad's job to kill things that need to be killed. Recently I had to put down an injured blackbird. No one else was keen. So I marched up, grabbed a brick and then froze

A chef preparing a dish made from cobra flesh died after the snake bit his hand - 20 minutes after he had severed it from its body.

Lynda Veth scalped herself in a freak home accident - by tripping over her dog in the dark and cracking her head open on a door frame.

A new TV series proves you really can teach old dogs new tricks says Dionne Christian.

There are 462 more species of bird in the world than previously thought.

Dr Ian Singleton, the British conservationist, world-renowned orang-utan expert and director of the Sumatran Orang-utan Conservation Programme was hanging out at the Auckland Zoo this week.

A 57-year-old fisherman who stepped into the shallows of the Adelaide River near Darwin took a fatal risk in some of the most densely populated crocodile waters.

Members of the public have helped to locate the owner of two dogs which fatally attacked a seal in Tairua on the Coromandel Peninsula on Monday.

My perception of bark collars is that they are a last resort when other less punishing methods of control have been tried, writes Sally Hibbard.

A rare golden lion tamarin and a male lion have died at zoos in Auckland and Wellington.

I was recently bitten by an off-the-leash Staffordshire bull terrier in my local park in Orewa.

While it might not yet be a plague, the rat population has exploded thanks to a warm start to the winter and a feast of beech mast seeds, pest controllers say.

Up to 500 rhinos are to be evacuated from Kruger National Park and taken to areas where they are less likely to fall prey to poachers, under plans announced by South African authorities.

Horses have more sense than many people realise, according to scientists who have shown the animals are able to communicate with one another by moving their eyes and ears.

Let's not get sidetracked over whether or not Housing New Zealand's dog ban failed.

When it comes to choosing a new pet, some people are opting for a beady eyed and scaly companion in preference to the traditional cat or dog.

11:They served in horrific conditions, and many of those that survived years of war were rewarded with a bullet.

With a face only a mother could love - a baby tuatara was captured on film as it hatched out of its egg at Victoria University of Wellington.

Housing New Zealand is to look into how a young boy was mauled by a dog on one of its properties, despite a dog ban being in place.

This is extremely rare footage of a tuatara hatching, filmed at Victoria University of Wellington. The egg was one of 23 being incubated in captivity as part of a joint initiative with the Department of Conservation and Ngati Manuhiri that has saved a threatened population of tuatara from extinction.

The battle against poachers is taking a grim toll on the people charged with protecting wild animals