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In this photo of Saturday March 16 2019, Rangers walk in a field near the Bire Kpatous game reserve along the Congolese border. South Sudan is trying to rebuild its vast national parks and game reserves following a five-year civil war that killed nearly 400,000 people. The conflict stripped the country of much wildlife but biodiversity remains rich with more than 300 mammal species, including 11 primates, but poaching is a growing threat.

South Sudan tries to protect wildlife after long conflict

In this photo of Saturday March 16 2019, Rangers walk in a field near the Bire Kpatous game reserve along the Congolese border. South Sudan is trying to rebuild its vast national parks and game reserves following a five-year civil war that killed nearly 400,000 people. The conflict stripped the country of much wildlife but biodiversity remains rich with more than 300 mammal species, including 11 primates, but poaching is a growing threat.

July 30, 2019, 2:45pm Nation & World

BIRE KPATOUS GAME RESERVE, South Sudan — Charles Matthew secures his beret, slings a rifle over his shoulder and prepares a team for an overnight foot patrol in Bire Kpatous, one of South Sudan’s game reserves that survived the country’s civil war but are now increasingly threatened by poachers and… Read story

Teen injured by bison in North Dakota national park

July 29, 2019, 9:25am Nation & World

A teenage visitor to a national park in North Dakota has been injured by a bison. Read story

Meet two very good boys sniffing explosives and keeping fliers safe from bad guys

July 29, 2019, 9:22am Life

There’s nothing Szultan and Bovli love more than to play, but when they roll into DFW International Airport with their handlers, it’s all business. After all, there’s nothing more serious than finding explosives intended for airplanes. Read story

India’s tiger population doubles in a dozen years

July 29, 2019, 9:12am Life

India’s tiger population has doubled in the last dozen years, according to the latest tiger census, a significant achievement for the country’s wildlife conservation efforts. Read story

This July 17, 2019 photo provided by Charlton McDaniel of Fort Smith, Ark., shows a copperhead snake eating a cicada in Arkansa’s Ozark National Forest. McDaniel of said Thursday, July 25, 2019, that he was “fascinated and captivated” to see a copperhead eat a newly emerged cicada at dusk on July 17. McDaniel says he went to the forest for moonlight kayaking and noticed the molting cicada. McDaniel scared off a nearby snake, but the reptile returned to gobble the insect.

Gulp! Arkansas photographer snaps images of snake eating bug

This July 17, 2019 photo provided by Charlton McDaniel of Fort Smith, Ark., shows a copperhead snake eating a cicada in Arkansa’s Ozark National Forest. McDaniel of said Thursday, July 25, 2019, that he was “fascinated and captivated” to see a copperhead eat a newly emerged cicada at dusk on July 17. McDaniel says he went to the forest for moonlight kayaking and noticed the molting cicada. McDaniel scared off a nearby snake, but the reptile returned to gobble the insect.

July 26, 2019, 9:17am Life

An amateur photographer has snapped some startling gone-in-a-gulp images of a venomous snake devouring an unlucky bug at Ozark National Forest in Arkansas. Read story

Tabitha, a loggerhead sea turtle, undergoes a CT scan at Mount Laurel Animal Hospital in New Jersey. The reptile was rescued off the New Jersey coast on June 27.

Rescued turtle faces long recovery

Tabitha, a loggerhead sea turtle, undergoes a CT scan at Mount Laurel Animal Hospital in New Jersey. The reptile was rescued off the New Jersey coast on June 27.

July 26, 2019, 6:00am Life

A 140-pound injured loggerhead sea turtle, recently found floating off the coast of Ocean City, N.J., was a rare rescue: still alive and not chopped up by propellers. Given extensive testing and treatment, including a CT scan at a South Jersey animal hospital, she just might live. Read story

Alex Papachristidis’s dog Teddy uses an antique miniature chair to help get on the bed — from Susanna Salk’s book “At Home With Dogs and Their Designers.” Stacey Bewkes

The wild world of modern pet furniture

Alex Papachristidis’s dog Teddy uses an antique miniature chair to help get on the bed — from Susanna Salk’s book “At Home With Dogs and Their Designers.” Stacey Bewkes

July 26, 2019, 6:00am Life

Pet furniture has come a long way from teal carpeted cat towers and lumpy plaid dog beds. Read story

Washington pet-grooming couple plead guilty to animal abuse

July 25, 2019, 10:01am Northwest

Pet ownership restrictions have been placed on a pet-grooming couple who pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges. Read story

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, July 24, 2018, provided by the Center for Whale Research, a baby orca whale is being pushed by her mother after being born off the Canada coast near Victoria, British Columbia. Whale researchers are keeping close watch on an endangered orca that has spent the past week carrying and keeping her dead calf afloat in Pacific Northwest waters.

Mother orca Tahlequah and her dead calf, one year later. How did she change the conversation?

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, July 24, 2018, provided by the Center for Whale Research, a baby orca whale is being pushed by her mother after being born off the Canada coast near Victoria, British Columbia. Whale researchers are keeping close watch on an endangered orca that has spent the past week carrying and keeping her dead calf afloat in Pacific Northwest waters.

July 24, 2019, 12:45pm Northwest

It was a year ago Wednesday that mother orca Tahlequah rallied attention to the plight of endangered southern resident killer whales and their struggle for survival. Read story

As others tend to two adult mountain goats on a flatbed truck in front of him, Derrick Halsey, a wildlife capture specialist known as a “mugger,” carries a kid mountain goat from a helicopter Tuesday, July 9, 2019, on Hurricane Ridge in the Olympic National Park near Port Angeles, Wash. For the second straight summer, mountain goats are flying in Olympic National Park. Officials this week began rounding up the sure-footed but nonnative mammals from remote, rugged parts of the park so they can be relocated into the Cascade Mountains, where they do belong.

76 mountain goats in Olympic National Park relocated in July

As others tend to two adult mountain goats on a flatbed truck in front of him, Derrick Halsey, a wildlife capture specialist known as a “mugger,” carries a kid mountain goat from a helicopter Tuesday, July 9, 2019, on Hurricane Ridge in the Olympic National Park near Port Angeles, Wash. For the second straight summer, mountain goats are flying in Olympic National Park. Officials this week began rounding up the sure-footed but nonnative mammals from remote, rugged parts of the park so they can be relocated into the Cascade Mountains, where they do belong.

July 24, 2019, 8:39am Northwest

Officials say 76 mountain goats were successfully moved from Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest to the Cascade Mountains in July. Read story