It’s returning, creeping into an olive grove or acacia thicket near you. Bird trappers are poised and ready to spread their unique brand of slow death across the countryside once more, if they ever truly vanished… This is an old and tragic story, and you’ve undoubtedly heard the majority of it before. But it’s worth […]
Tag: animal welfare
Bill Introduced to Ban the Use of Wild and Exotic Animals in Circuses
A bill was recently approved to amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit the use of wild or exotic animals in traveling action shows. The bill was first introduced in May and received a huge amount of celebrity support. The Traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act (TEAPSPA) will help protect wild and exotic […]
Seven Rescue Lions Reach Their New Home in Animal Sanctuary
After traveling 2,000 kilometers, 7 rescue lions finally reach their home at an animal sanctuary where they will be well taken care of. FOUR PAWS, the global animal welfare organization, rescued the 3 female and 4 male lions in September. They were being exploited and badly cared for in Romania. Two out of the 7 […]
Petition: Stop the Captivity and Cruel Treatment of Lions
Tiger King captured America’s attention at the start of the pandemic. Critiques aside, it drew attention to the horrors of breeding Big Cats, keeping them in captivity, and exploiting them for human enjoyment. But these problems persist in the United States and even more around the globe. In South Africa, home to some of the […]
Rare white stag killed by police after running through Merseyside streets
A rare white stag was killed by police on Sunday evening after it spent hours running through a Merseyside town, despite animal welfare experts urging officers to let it find its way home. Merseyside police say that they were unable to find an organisation who could help safely recover the deer from Bootle, and so were […]
All U.S. States Fail to Protect Animals from Cruel Trapping, Says New Report
Global animal welfare and conservation nonprofit, Born Free USA, has released a damning new report entitled Crushing Cruelty: Animal Trapping in the United States. The report updates work carried out in 2017 and is the result of extensive research into the regulatory landscape of trapping on a state-by-state basis. This research informed the production of […]
Petition: Ban Monkey Ownership in the UK
Monkeys are highly intelligent, emotionally developed, and social creatures. While having a pet with these traits may seem fun, keeping primates as pets causes them severe emotional and psychological distress. Due to primates’ need for social interaction with their own species as well as a large amount of space to move around in, domestic settings […]
Revealed: all 27 monkeys held at Nasa research center killed on single day in 2019
Every monkey held by Nasa was put to death on a single day last year, documents obtained by the Guardian show, in a move that has enraged animal welfare campaigners. A total of 27 primates were euthanized by administrated drugs on 2 February last year at Nasa’s Ames research center in California’s Silicon Valley, it […]