Photos of Aryanna Gourdin posing with dead animals attract a huge backlash on social media  

Campaigners fear post-Brexit bonfire of laws that protect endangered species

Elusive creatures nicknamed 'puffing pigs' are capable of catching a fish every 6.6 seconds

She shared an image of her trophy animal hours before she attended a rally with the Republican

Observer beaten by hunt supporters at Belvoir Hunt says his ordeal comes amid growing hostillity against monitors

The hunts, which will eventually kill about 600 animals in 32 countries, have outraged activists

The League Against Cruel Sports claims to have filmed the club hunting in North Yorkshire

The native Southeast Asian snakes are “wreaking havoc” on Florida’s ecosystem and are decimating other animal populations

Around 70 Conservative MPs have indicated that they will vote against an attempt to repeal the Hunting Act

Around a quarter of the Scandinavian nation's wolves were killed in previous culls

The animals are ‘bred for the bullet’, spending their lives in small, dirty, compounds

A new BBC series explores the relationship between predator and prey. In his foreword to the accompanying book, the legendary broadcaster reveals the thrills of documenting the hunt

Hunters reportedly had not realised the elephant was so large when the man fired the fatal shot

Chase Dellwo was out hunting when he stumbled into a sleeping grizzly bear

The United States has done it. The Philippines and China too. Even Hong Kong has said it will destroy some of its contraband ivory. But ahead of a conservation conference in London next month where world leaders will descend to seek a solution to wildlife crime, the debate about the future of stockpiles is set to heat up.

The number will have to be whittled down before the race in April