Australia's iconic marsupial the koala will be listed as a "vulnerable species" in Queensland state.
Giant African snails happily munch on vegetables in south China, one bite from a red fire ant from Latin America causes humans to slip in to a coma and the ecosystem in northwest China is under threat from invasive trees from Central Asia.
A new plant species in the Aristolochiaceae family was recently discovered in Xuan Lien Nature Reserve in Vietnam's central Thanh Hoa province.
Camera traps installed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently recorded another Asiatic black bear (Ursus Thibetanus) in Vietnam's central province of Quang Nam, about 650km south of capital Hanoi.
New Zealand has more threatened seabird species than anywhere else in the world and planned deepwater oil and gas drilling could drive them to extinction, a leading conservation group warned Monday.
A fossil of one of the world's oldest flying seabirds has been found in New Zealand
More than 270 wildlife species endemic to the Philippines have been found for the past 25 years, a senior official said Thursday.