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1,141 mammal species – 25 per cent of those known to science...
Animals
The teak forest of Gir is now the sole refuge for a big cat that hunted across swathes of Asia just a century ago. Luke Hunter considers the future of the Asiatic lion.
Orangutans are icons of the conservation of South-East Asia's forests. Read our factfiles on both the Sumatran and Bornean species and find out the best places to see them in their natural habitat.
The future of the world’s rarest cat is looking brighter at last. Pete Oxford and Reneé Bish discover that to save the Iberian lynx, you first need to help the humble European rabbit.
It's time to celebrate the role science plays in what is known about wildlife, so we have chosen what we think are the 10 greatest wildlife discoveries ever made.
Co-director Keith Scholey on the making of the forthcoming feature film African Cats, opening in cinemas in February 2012.
Play is vital to human development – and our closest relatives thrive on it, too. Young chimps just want to have fun.
The epic new BBC One series Frozen Planet introduces a cast of wildlife heroes and villains. Plucky penguins, wily orcas, cunning wolves and the mighty yet vulnerable polar bears are the lead characters, their life stories described in David Attenborough’s magnificent narration.
Someone is killed by a tiger every 10 days in the forests of the Sundarbans. Christina Greenwood reports on efforts to resolve human-tiger conflict.
Our obsession with the bamboo-loving ‘cat bear’ tells us much about the modern world and our place in it, says Henry Nicholls.
More new dinosaurs have been unearthed in the past decade than over the previous two centuries. As Planet Dinosaur hits TV screens, Paul Chambers celebrates this golden age of discovery.
