Endangered Species
Experts estimate that fewer than 80 Sumatran rhinos remain on Earth, most of them in Indonesia.
An Amazon forest protest, record smog in India, and a rare endangered frog round out this week's best images.
The lawsuit comes one month after a legal challenge from environmental groups.
News of the deaths comes three years after nearly 150 tigers were removed from Tiger Temple over trafficking and abuse claims.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Agency officials have slammed the 1973 law as “a sword to tear down the American economy" and likened species listings to "incoming Scud missiles."
Environmentalists see the rule as another handout to industry amid rising alarm that the ecosystems on which humans rely are collapsing.
Poaching is a multi-billion dollar industry run by gangs. Meet the women waging a war against it.
Authorities said the southern California teen kept the extremely rare creature in a plastic drawer that lacked ventilation holes.
A review and public comment process could lead to import restrictions on hunting trophies and body parts from giraffes.
Andrei Zhestkov, 27, told authorities he'd intended on keeping the two-year-old animal as a pet.