Tsavo National Park offers the perfect backdrop for a safari: vast savannas and plains dotted with acacia trees. The hirola ...

The late Jane Goodall was known for her love of primates, and though she was married to her job, she had also wed two great ...

Lake Natron in Tanzania is so alkaline that it preserves animals as eerie stone-like mummies in its red, shimmering waters.

No fences, no pylons, no concrete. That’s what allows the “Great Migration”, when more than a million wildebeest, zebra and ...

Gombe became Goodall’s lifelong field site. She arrived there in 1960 with no formal scientific training, sent by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study chimpanzees in their natural habitat. What she ...

National Geographic helped the famous conservationist get her start—and followed her chimpanzee research and advocacy for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Crowds of people loaded onto boats to tour the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Wednesday morning with no immediate signs of the government shutdown that is triggering the furlough ...

Washington — The National Park Service will furlough more than half of its workforce during the government shutdown, but will keep trails, open-air memorials and other areas at least partially open to ...

The death of the pioneering primatologist, one of the most influential voices in environmental science, has prompted tributes ...

Plans to keep America’s national parks open amid the government shutdown face challenges as the National Park Service (NPS) furloughs more than 60 percent of its staff. The Trump administration ...