THESE harrowing images reveal how a legal Big Cat farming industry is thriving around the world with helpless animals kept in tiny wire cages.

Demands from southern African countries to allow international trade in elephant ivory are extremely dangerous. Proponents are trying to create the impression that wild populations are growing to problematic numbers when, in fact, the species remains in decline across the continent and is threatened with long-term extinction.

Some extinct crocs may have been keen to eat greens.

A British safari boss is charging callous trophy hunters thousands of pounds to kill lions that have been bred in captivity, The Mail can reveal.

CHOBE ENCLAVE, Botswana — For as long as they can remember, farmers in Botswana lived mostly at peace with elephants, whose knowing eyes and playful kids made them seem almost like friendly human neighbors.

He was up there somewhere, at the top of the hill, the man Karl Ammann had come to see.