The bird species has long ridden dramatic population swings. About 3,000 snail kites lived in Florida in 2001, but a severe drought that year devastated the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, cutting the ...

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. But now, as non-native apple snails disappear, the endangered Everglades bird, the snail kite, is paying the price.

The yellow-bellied slider is a semiaquatic turtle, native to southeastern United States, where it is the most common turtle species. As the name suggests, they have a yellow belly that is buried under ...

A Sydney man faces the prospect of a jail term and a $50,000 fine after pleading guilty to taking ‘sacred’ green tree pythons from Cape York that traditional owners describe as integral to their ...

A Sydney man has been handed a hefty fine and a jail sentence for taking ‘sacred’ green tree pythons from Iron Range in Cape York, with a magistrate declaring his crime “deeply disrespectful” of the ...

A Sydney man has been handed a hefty fine for ripping ‘sacred’ green tree pythons from a Cape national park with a magistrate slamming his crime as being “deeply disrespectful” toward the environment ...

near “threatened” snakes from an eastern Cape York national park. Eight snakes, allegedly unlawfully taken from their natural habitat near Lockhart River, were discovered after a tip-off led to a ...