Believing the Vietnam War is still going on, he sits alone in a squatting position in a corner of his room. “His major obsession is to return to the jungle one day,” said Cerezo.

Vietnam is an essential travel destination for anyone interested in unique wildlife. In fact, hundreds of new species have been discovered here in the last 30 years alone.

Hoa Van Lang was found in the forest in Quang Ngai province, Vietnam, where he had lived for 40 years with his father. The two men survived by cultivating forest vegetables and hunting animals.

Vietnam’s decline is especially intense. For example, in a single remote national preserve set aside for the saola and other rare animals, 23,000 cheap but fatally efficient wire snares were ...

Crafts, who now lives in Livermore, consented to a rare interview on his experience as Maine’s first Vietnam POW, and the only one to be imprisoned in the jungle. This is his story.

Sequence DNA From Blood-Sucking Leeches Some animals are so elusive, you need nature’s vampires to track them down. By Ed Yong Tiger leech, with snack (Dick Culbert / Flickr) September 11, 2015 ...

A young Bengal tiger cub smuggled into the U.S. and seized at the Mexico border is displayed for the media during 'Operation Jungle Book' in Torrance, Calif., on Oct. 20, 2017.