Back in 2010, India sought to double its tiger population by 2022. But on International Tiger Day, the country announced it met its goal four years earlier than expected. Nearly 3,000 tigers now reside in India, that's more than 70% of the world's tiger population.

International Tiger Day was first established in 2010 at Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia to raise awareness about the decline of wild tiger numbers and to encourage the work of Tiger conservation.

New Mexico police are searching for vandals who cut locks and made holes in zoo enclosures over the weekend, allowing four animals, including a bobcat, to escape before they were quickly wrangled nearby.

In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Gorsuch, the Supreme Court rejected the “substantial competitive harm” test in its entirety.

There’s a new face at The Buffalo Zoo. The zoo tweeted photos of a baby greater one-horned rhino born late Monday evening.

The hippo, born May 14, does not have a name yet because it has stayed close by its mother's side -- so zoo staff has not been able to definitively determine the calf's gender.

An escaped elephant, which had the Kansas City Zoo on high alert, has been returned. The Zoo tweeted around 3:40 p.m. that it was “in an active code red situation with an elephant in an area it should not be.”

One of the things we love most at Disney’s Animal Kingdom is welcoming babies to our family, and the animal care team is delighted to announce the birth of a healthy baby western lowland gorilla!, says Scott Terrell, DVM, DACVP, Director of Animal & Science Operations, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts.

There is a little more snow in Rochester but this time it is warm, fuzzy and adorable. The Seneca Park Zoo announced the birth of two snow leopard cubs on Monday. The babies were born to Timila, who is a first-time mom.

Three days before Mother’s Day, the Denver Zoo welcomed a baby mandrill into its primate troop — the first such birth since the zoo’s “mandrill baby boom” in 2003.