STANDING in the fierce heat, with chains cutting into his flesh, Arthur’s only source of water is too far away to reach. But even if he was closer, the desperately thirsty elephant would not dare move. If he did, he would receive a vicious beating from the man standing beside him brandishing an ankush, a […]
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California Bans Fur Trapping!
Fur trapping is a cruel, inhumane industry that causes terrible pain and death to animals. Using various traps like the snare trap, underwater trap, Conibear trap, and the steel-jaw trap, trappers catch animals with fur. The steel-jaw trap (the most cruel of all), shuts down on the animal’s limb. They frantically struggle to break free […]
Petition: Send Dolphins at Dubai Dolphinarium to a Sanctuary!
Dolphins do not belong in tanks. They are highly intelligent and social creatures who should be in the wild with their pods. They display emotion and advanced cognition, just like humans. Yet, humans take them from their homes and families and force them to live in tiny tanks where they cannot follow their instincts or […]
Petition: Ban Fur in New York!
The fur industry is horrifically cruel. Precious animals that should be free in the wild are bred on fur farms in terrible conditions. The most common victims of this industry are mink, foxes, chinchillas, and rabbits. They’re kept in small, uncomfortable wire cages often in their own filth and amongst the corpses of the other […]
A murder of crows: Chris Packham and the countryside war over bird killings
To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves,” says John Marzluff in the preface to In the Company of Crows and Ravens. After all, “crows and people share similar traits and social strategies”. Crows and their relatives have captured human imaginations since the paleolithic period, when they were depicted in cave […]
Petition: Johns Hopkins University Is Tormenting Owls in a Basement
It looks like something out of a horror movie. Shreesh Mysore, an experimenter at Johns Hopkins University, is holding barn owls captive in his basement laboratory, experimenting on them, and then killing them. Mysore and his team implant electrodes in the birds’ brains, lock them in restraining devices, and force them to see or hear […]
Lion Killed After Fatally Mauling Intern at North Carolina Wildlife Facility
As his enclosure was being cleaned by staff at a North Carolina wildlife facility on December 30, a lion named Matthai managed to escape from his locked holding pen. Matthai fatally mauled one of those workers, 22-year-old Alexandra Black. She was an animal husbandry intern who had only been on the job for 10 days. […]
POLL: Should fur farming in Finland be banned?
With its noble face and thick glossy fur, this Arctic fox may look appealing. But a glance inside its tiny wire cage reveals it is lying in its own filth. It is held with hundreds of other animals including silver and red foxes. Some have eye infections and others are so obese they can barely […]