Putting the well-being of animals first should be every photographer’s goal. National Geographic photographers share tips on how they do it.

New Hope served as a quarantine and rehab facility for animals that eventually would be moved to Al Ma’wa for Nature and Wildlife, a forested refuge about 30 miles away, which sprawls over 274 ...

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See the best animal photos of 2018. Get up close to a shark feeding frenzy and meat-eating bats in these amazing pictures selected by National Geographic editors.

The Live-Animal Trade. Every year millions of animals—African grey parrots, marmosets, meerkats, poison dart frogs, pythons, seahorses, whip scorpions—are plucked from the wild and moved ...

Despite being one of the most photographed natural spaces in the world, stories of the Okavango Delta are rarely told by ...

Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off ...

In the deep seas found at the Earth’s poles, explorers are still finding elusive and mysterious sea creatures. On an ...

A little-known U.S. government agency tasked with killing or removing animals that may threaten livestock, crops, or public safety accidentally killed almost 3,000 animals in 2021. Wildlife ...

Captive wild animal encounters are hugely popular, thanks partly to social media. But our investigation shows many creatures lead dismal lives. For $10, tourists can pose with this tiger at Phuket ...

Arabian cobra becomes 12,000th animal added to ark of at-risk species. The milestone image in National Geographic’s Photo Ark emphasizes reptiles, many of which are in danger of extinction.

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...