Each island is home to a rich collection of animal and plant life.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

If a lion does kill a herd animal, the Maasai receive money from a program that repays herders for losses.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

But the group has a new ambulance with devices for lifting a camel to drive it to an animal hospital.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

He had the most appealing look in his eyes I ever saw on the face of a dumb or talking animal.

VOA: special.2011.01.22

Three were plant-eaters. They were the western horse, the ancient bison and a two-meter tall animal called the Harlan's ground sloth.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

As a result,the report says, the rate of plant and animal species disappearing is continuing faster than ever before.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Another animal with a good memory -- the elephant -- often raids field crops, especially maize and cassava.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

He again made a sign with his hands that I should ride on the same animal behind him.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

For example, the insects can smell carbon dioxide in the breath of a person or animal from as far away as sixty meters.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

She says any discussion about improving the environment must include a discussion about changing the animal food production industry and changing people's diets.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

The remains of the eight-meter long animal were found on a rocky beach in Saint John,New Brunswick.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

We leave you with Animal Collective performing "On A Highway" from their latest album, "Fall Be Kind."

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Among the project's findings is one that a group of Antarctic islands are richer in animal life than the world famous Galapagos Islands.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

ong before the first Europeans arrived in the New World, a strange looking animal lived on the rich grasses of the western plains.

VOA: special.2009.02.15