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A federal grand jury indicted two people accused of creating and distributing videos of monkeys being tortured. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced the unsealing of the indictment in a news release, charging Katrina D. Favret and Robert M. Craig for their “alleged involvement with online groups dedicated to […]
Category: Wildlife
VOTE for the Best Photo of the Month June 2025
Welcome to the “Best Photo of the Month” competition showcasing and celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. Voting is easy and lots of fun. By popular request the number of images to be selected has been increased to six. First click an image and the slideshow will start automatically. Select the SIX images you like best […]
Petition: Justice for Blinded Swan Shot With Steel Ball in Cambridge
In a truly heartbreaking act of animal cruelty in Cambridge, England, a beautiful male swan was shot in the head with a 10mm steel ball bearing in a vicious catapult attack. This swan, who is the patriarch of his family, is now blind in one eye. The damage may be so severe that surgery could […]
Swifts’ decline: how can Britons help these remarkable birds?
What are swifts and why are they in trouble? The swift (Apus apus) is an acrobatic aerial bird, a remarkable sprinter and endurance flyer that rarely touches the ground. When these sickle-winged birds do come down – after several years in perpetual flight, even sleeping midair – it is to nest in the eaves of […]
Man smuggling exotic protected birds in cardboard box is detained in CA, feds say
A California man arrived to the U.S. from Mexico with a commercial amount of alcohol, candy, snacks and soda in his car — as well as seven exotic, protected birds inside a cardboard SKYY vodka box, according to court documents. Juandaniel Medina, 24, of Lindsay, planned on breeding or reselling the live Amazon parrots he […]
Petition: Ban This Man From Ever Owning Animals Again – Stop the Cruelty Now
A man in New York state had two pet dogs. But he apparently tied them up without food and water and simply… left them there, like that, to suffer. Sign the petition to ban him from animal ownership! In fact, he left them in this condition for so long that by the time authorities discovered […]
Bear necessity: lid stuck around US animal’s neck removed after two years
Michigan wildlife experts finally were able to trap a black bear and remove a large lid that was stuck around his neck – after two years. “It’s pretty incredible that the bear survived and was able to feed itself,” Cody Norton, a state bear specialist, said on Wednesday. “The neck was scarred and missing hair, […]
Beating of sea lion caught on camera, CA officials say. Now, man pleads guilty
A sick sea lion resting on a California beach was kicked in the head and beaten with a large piece of driftwood, prosecutors say. Now, 32-year-old Christopher Hurtado, of Santa Paula, has pleaded guilty “to two felony counts related to the beating of a sea lion suffering on a Ventura beach from recent algae blooms,” […]