Acting on a tipoff, Vietnamese police pried open a basement door in Nghe An province and flicked on the light switch. Videos from the August 2021 raid show officers filing down an aisle past cage after cage of adult tigers. Starved of daylight, malnourished and raised as livestock in concrete cells, each tiger was destined […]
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Breaking: Italy to shut down all fur farms and permanently ban fur farming
A major win for animals in Italy caps off a year of remarkable progress toward a fur-free future. Today, the Italian Senate Budget Committee approved an amendment that will shutter the country’s 10 remaining fur farms within six months and enact a permanent ban on fur farming throughout Italy. This massive win follows Humane Society […]
‘Koala massacre’ prompts Australian authorities to issue hundreds of animal cruelty charges
Regulators in the Australian state of Victoria have slapped over 250 animal cruelty charges over the alleged mass killing of koalas. Dozens of koalas – a protected species in Victoria – were found dead at the partially cleared timber plantation at Cape Bridgewater in February last year. At first, 21 animals were found dead at […]
Decline of threatened bird highlights planning importance of bison releases
The story of the American bison is both tragic and uplifting. Once dappling the prairies of North America in the tens of millions, hunting winnowed the number to perhaps a thousand survivors by the end of the 19th century. Nearly wiping out the continent’s largest surviving land animal was a bloody stain on the century-old […]
Two Teenagers Arrested After Killing Two Alligators
Two teenagers were recently arrested for illegally capturing two alligators. They were 6 and 8 feet long, and still relatively young for alligators. Police were sent to the location of a car accident, where they found an overturned SUV and two unharmed teens. They also found two alligators hanging from the rear window of the […]
Switzerland’s wolves get too close for comfort
One or perhaps two wolves, spotted at a distance, roaming the mountains from which they were driven to extinction a century ago may be a good thing – a sign of nature rebalancing itself, of diversity restored. A whole pack, prowling through alpine villages, lurking along the paths children take to school, is something different. […]
Montana wants to open hunting on grizzly bears. Why is co-existence so hard?
“….. to be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.” —William O. Douglas In this part of Montana, most people view grizzly bears […]
Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)
With humans sending probes to explore Mars and the sun, one might think we’ve already explored the full extent of our own planet. But scientists say we’ve only begun to find and describe the riches here on Earth. “I think most people believe that we know most species on Earth … but in the best-case […]