This was designed by the previous Conservative administration to co-ordinate action for native breeds across government departments and alongside rare-breed organisations. See also: Ancient Cattle ...

P. augusta is also called the Mount Augustus snail, named after the only known habitat on New Zealand’s South Island where ...

A rare male fossa has arrived at Chester Zoo from America as part of an international breeding programme to protect the ...

A zoo has taken inspiration from TV's "Blind Date" to try and get two rare Malagasy fossas to mate as part of an ...

The Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) watchlist is the annual report on the UK’s native equine and livestock breeds. It takes into account the number of breeding females registered and measures ...

I overheard a conversation during an assignment at a cat show in Ballinteer, Dublin, between Northern cat owners that piqued my interest. Sharon and Trevor McNeely were showing their Maine Coons ...

A rare breed horse is celebrating his one-year anniversary at Kynren in Bishop Auckland, County Durham. The grey shire horse, Knutsford Cosmopolitan, who is also affectionately known as Cosmo ...

Rare Breed Triggers has released an updated lineup of its Forced Reset Triggers (FRT), including the original FRT-15, and the more advanced E3, L2, and L3 models—each offering improvements in ...

which is slow to breed and doesn't adapt well to new habitats. In 2011, some 800 of the snails accidentally died in a Department of Conservation refrigerator with faulty temperature control.