ATHENS, Texas — It's where the buffalo roam. And zebras, too. A $16.4 million Texas ranch that features a range of exotic ...

Photo by Nick de la Torre for the Houston Chronicle / Getty Images During a traffic stop outside Houston earlier this month, Texas game wardens caught two deer breeders trying to move captive ...

From the mid-1980s until Texas acquired the land, Johnson used the property as a working exotic game ranch with more than 15 ...

After public backlash, Texas Rep. Pat Curry withdraws his bill to dismantle the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, ensuring ...

A Texas Game Warden investigation ... Suspects face Class A charges for taking white-tailed deer without landowner consent and for hunting exotic animals from a public roadway or right of way.

according to research complied by Texas A&M University. The industry accounts for some 17,000 jobs, and it includes breeding operations for exotic deer species as well as genetically-enhanced ...

In a post on Facebook, State Rep. Pat Curry said the bill he filed, HB 4938, was done so as a mechanism to bring TPWD to the ...

People flock to Texas for its world-renowned hunting, but many of the guided experiences for exotic species come with a steep ...

That set off an investigation by Texas Game Wardens that led to 22 suspects and 1,200 pending charges involving illegal white-tailed deer breeding operations on the black market statewide.

An investigation this week into Texas’ illegal deer breeding industry and black market wildlife trade led Texas Game Wardens to arrest over 20 people across the state, resulting in about 1,200 ...