Questions have been raised about the Shaanxi Rare Wildlife Rescue and Breeding Research Center in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, which has been earning money by displaying rescued pandas - some of which later became sick and died.
Two men received jail sentences after being convicted of killing a Kiang, a highly endangered Tibetan wild donkey in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
On the snowy mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it has become common for flocks of bharals to deny their shy nature by carrying on roaming when saffron-robed figures come close. It speaks volumes about how comfortable the endangered animals have become with the monks who have taken to protecting them.
China's top legislature on Thursday passed an interpretation of the Criminal Law which will put eaters of rare wild animals in jail.
Police in east China on Wednesday seized the body of an animal suspected to be a Siberian tiger as it was being loaded onto an SUV by two suspects.
More research on the release of captive-bred pandas into the wild is needed as artificial intervention is hindering their chances of survival.
Bactrian camels are the last remaining wild camels. The animal is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
China may extend a nationwide census for wild giant pandas that was scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013, as an earthquake disturbed one of the pandas' major habitats last month.
A wild Siberian tiger was spotted on a forestry farm in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.The tiger, believed to have been hunting for a wild boar at the time, came face to face with several workers late in the afternoon on a forestry farm.
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