The United States voted Thursday to ban the keeping of big cats as pets, following the grievous light the controversial Netflix documentary Tiger King threw on the issue early 2020, sparking escalating concerns. The Big Cat Public Safety Act, as it has been termed, was passed in the House of Representatives 272 to 114, reeling […]
Denmark now plans to dig up thousands of culled mink to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, after the animal carcasses began to bloat out of their mass graves. According to Danish state broadcaster TV2, the gas used to kill the mammals caused the bodies to swell and resurface, prompting the media to dub them “zombie […]
Kaavan, dubbed the world’s loneliest elephant, finally escaped the meagre confines of a zoo in Islamabad on Monday, and has now taken his first steps to freedom at the wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia. And tagging alongside him at every stage of his journey to long-awaited salvation was pop music icon Cher, her months of effort […]
Japanese health officials have found 164 emaciated dogs crammed into a tiny house in one of the country’s worst cases of animal hoarding, an animal rights activist said on Wednesday, The parasite-infested animals were found in a 30 square-metre (323 sq foot) house in the city of Izumo, in western Japan, in mid-October after neighbours […]
Havana’s streets teem with abandoned animals and are littered with carcasses of chickens sacrificed in religious rituals, while, behind closed doors, dogs are thrown into illegal deadly fights. But things are changing in Cuba thanks to pressure from a growing middle class, and the island nation will soon pass a law to protect animal rights. […]
