To honor National Reptile Day, we want to highlight a new five-part docuseries, Monsters of God, which recently aired in ...

Scroll below to download your state’s trapping report card and view a sample message you can use when contacting your state’s governor. Be sure to edit the message to include your name and your ...

A new article, Identifying inconsistencies in exotic pet regulations that perpetuate trade in risky species (Pratt et al., 2023), discusses the main consequences that result from the severely flawed ...

Interacting with wild animals can be dangerous and has led to major pandemics like SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), Ebola, MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus), COVID-19 ...

In mid-May 2025, the Columbus Zoo in Ohio found itself yet again in hot water with the authorities. Recently, the Ohio Office of the Attorney General and the Auditor of State’s Special Investigations ...

While zoos claim that welfare needs in zoos are effectively met, the behavior of captive great apes tells us a different story. The high prevalence of stereotypies in zoo-housed primates points to ...

Large sharks, particularly great whites, have a very poor track record of surviving in captivity, with most dying within days or even hours of capture. The first attempt to keep a great white shark in ...

Despite other cities exhibiting wild animals earlier at more informal menageries (small collections of “exotic” animals), like the Central Park Zoo in 1864, the Philadelphia Zoo is often cited as the ...

This blog is the second in a series of four blog articles that will highlight marine conservation work in Ivory Coast. Follow along for the rest of the series! A conservation program is only as strong ...

Red-eared sliders are one of the most popular turtles in the pet trade. Between the 1930s and 1970s, they were captured, usually as babies, and shipped throughout the United States to be kept as pets.

Like most other dangerous wildlife ownership laws in the United States, including those pertaining to bears, big cats, and reptiles, the legislation dictating private ownership of primates varies ...

In late 2025 three baby baboons – Mari, Peach, and Ophelia – came to the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary. Mari, the eldest, was estimated to be around nine months’ old, and her two companions just six ...