On top of its world-class geographic beauty, New Zealand is home to animal species you won't see anywhere else. Head to this park to see them.

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK, Uganda (AP) — The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go — except up in the trees. Onesmas Ainebyona stalks the ...

After decades of political maneuvering through Congress and government agencies, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina may finally achieve federal recognition through the National Defense Authorization ...

North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe has sought federal recognition for over a century. A provision included this week in a defense spending bill in Congress would give it to them — and could be voted on ...

North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe could receive federal recognition within the month — a goal that’s been generations in the making for the tribe, but which also faces heavy opposition from other Native ...

A sperm whale floats amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, mouth hanging open. When photographer Roie Galitz captured the scene with a drone, the image was so arresting that it took a ...

A Native American tribe displaced by 19th-century settlers near Yosemite National Park has reacquired hundreds of acres of its ancestral homeland. The Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation, a group indigenous ...

The Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation was given back its territory bordering Yosemite National Park, a move that some activists hope is a milestone in their goal of obtaining large swathes of land that ...