The Zoo in Forest Park opened for their 2025 season. The celebration included talks with zookeepers, animal encounters, and getting to see enrichment demonstrations.

News from the community includes items from Brookfield, Elmhurst, Oakbrook Terrace, La Grange, Hinsdale and Western Springs.

An animal keeper at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle was bitten by an orangutan and had to be treated at a local hospital over the weekend. While the injury was not life-threatening, according to ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- The western lowland gorillas explored their new indoor habitat at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago. The ...

Originally a zoo – with some of the first animals to move in being, you guessed it, flamingos – the park has evolved since it opened in 1959, and now has 52 rollercoasters, a swimming pool and ...

A forest fire has closed a country park for the second time in two days. Moors Valley Country Park, on the Dorset/Hampshire border near Ringwood, shut its main centre and car park on Monday after ...

A large fire broke out in a forest at a country park. Fire crews from Hampshire and Dorset were called at about midday to Moors Valley Country Park near Ringwood. There were about 80 firefighters ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - On Saturday, The Zoo in Forest Park opened for their 2025 season. The celebration included talks with zookeepers, animal encounters, and getting to see enrichment ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 39 °F (3.9 °C). Sunny with a high of 78 °F (25.6 °C). Winds variable at 5 to 9 mph (8 to 14.5 kph). Sunny today with a high of 78 °F ...

With the Franklin Square Park Patco station set to reopen April 3, and the Square's official opening day on the horizon — ...

Everglades National Park will satisfy both your lust for beauty and your thirst for fear. It is like a zoo without barriers. Anything could be lurking around the next corner. Or, ...

Forest ecology is the study of all aspects of the ecology of wooded areas, including rainforest, deciduous and evergreen, temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the ...