11-year-old boy from Idaho kills black bear that wouldn't leave his family's porch. An 11-year-old Idaho boy fatally shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave.

Fearing roadblock to drilling, Alaska fights to take polar bears off threatened species list. Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn't intend to let the federal government's expanded protection for bears get in the way of the state's continued prosperity.

Human Genome Sciences faces FDA regulatory delay on anthrax treatment. Human Genome Sciences Inc. said Monday the Food and Drug Administration will not approve the company's anthrax treatment until it receives additional information on the potential drug.

China has started construction on a research centre to help captive pandas adapt to the wild with a view to releasing them into nature, state media reported.

An international crime syndicate is behind an escalation in poaching in Zimbabwe which has slaughtered 65 elephants and 30 rhinos this year, a wildlife official said Monday.

RI emergency planner experiences new kind of crisis as rats scamper through Statehouse. Sue Stenhouse spends her days figuring out how Rhode Island officials should calmly deal with disaster. But when a rat scurried through her office, her natural response was to jump on a chair, snap it with rubber bands and threaten to spritz it with Obsession.

Idaho boy, 11, gets gun and shoots black bear on his family's front porch. An 11-year-old boy shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave. The boy was at his home near Driggs, just west of the Idaho-Wyoming border, with his younger sisters last Wednesday when the bear showed up. The youngster said he couldn't shoo it away, so he went and got his gun and shot it.

New Greenpeace chief brings experience fighting poverty, racism to environmental campaign. An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming.

DACHIGAM, India (Reuters Life!) - The wildlife population of Indian Kashmir has registered a "manifold" increase as a two-decade-old separatist rebellion has scared away poachers and hunters from the region, a wildlife official said on Tuesday.

Austria says 'so long' to Fu Long as celebrity panda heads to China. A 2-year-old panda who charmed his way into the hearts of Austrians is headed to China.

Northwest MT logging projects challenged; enviros say grizzly bears could be harmed. An environmental group is seeking to stop three logging projects on several thousand acres in northwest Montana, arguing that the timber sales would harm the area's fledgling grizzly bear population.

Fu Long, Europe's first panda to be naturally conceived in captivity, left his home of two years at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo on Wednesday for a reserve in China.

Wildlife experts in Indian-controlled Kashmir have fitted black bears with satellite-tracking collars to study their behaviour and help conserve the endangered animals, officials said Wednesday.

Japanese whaling ships left port Thursday for Antarctic waters for the annual hunt of the ocean giants, Greenpeace said, setting the stage for high-seas confrontations with anti-whaling activists.

Japanese whaling ships left port Thursday for Antarctic waters for their annual hunt of the ocean giants, Greenpeace said, setting the stage for high-seas confrontations with anti-whaling activists.

Do not say that Rick Smith stuffs dead animals. He mounts them. ThatÕs what taxidermists do.

Federal judge says Yellowstone-area grizzly bears must stay on threatened list. A judge says the government must keep Yellowstone-area grizzly bears on the list of threatened and endangered species, denying an attempt by federal officials to reverse an earlier court ruling.

Lebanese pop diva under fire for song comparing black Egyptians to monkeys. A famous Lebanese pop singer, who normally stirs controversy for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, has now been accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys.

2 lions kill rare white tiger in zoo in northern Czech Republic. A rare white tiger was killed by two lions that managed to sneak into its enclosure in a Czech zoo, officials said Thursday.

Australia said it was "deeply disappointed" after a fleet of Japanese whaling ships set out to kill hundreds of the giant ocean mammals on their annual hunt.