A newborn lamb who had his ears callously hacked off has been nursed back to health thanks to a cotton bonnet that stops him getting earache and sunbu...
Chinese police have arrested two Russian men trying to smuggle 213 brown bear paws into Inner Mongolia. The bear paws were discovered hidden in th...
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO, SOME VIEWERS MAY FIND THIS CONTENT DISTRESSING An Argentinian footballer has been sent off after he hurled a pitch-invading...
A dog who lost her snout saving two little girls from being hit by a motorcycle has been greeted with a hero’s welcome on her return to the Philippi...
WARNING: Some readers may find these images distressing Heartbreaking images of dogs being tear-gassed have emerged amidst the scenes of violence p...
On 1 June licences will be issued for the culling of badgers across pilot cull zones. We really need to look at this as a 'grave crime'. It's not only a crime against wildlife, it's a crime against science and a crime against public opinion - that which the government is supposed to represent.
There is a company that may very well be set to totally revolutionise the food manufacturing industry: come to the aid of the environment and improve our health. I met with the founder of Hampton Creek Foods, Josh Tetrick at his start-up company in the Soma district of San Francisco.
Force-feeding causes the birds' livers to balloon to up to 10 times their normal size and become diseased with what is known as hepatic steatosis. In addition to being miserably ill with a painful and debilitating disease, the geese can barely breathe because their grotesquely enlarged livers displace their lungs and other internal organs... geese can be seen panting constantly in a vain attempt to suck oxygen into their squashed lungs. Veterinarian Holly Cheever has compared what force-fed birds endure in their final days to being smothered.
It was 20 years ago when Jill Robinson MBE first walked into a bear bile farm and uncovered one of Asia's darkest secrets. The young animal lover found sweet, Asiatic black bears incarcerated in tiny wire cages with rusting metal catheters implanted in their abdomens through which bile was being extracted for use in traditional medicine.
Bullfighting -- a horrible spectacle of animal abuse that ends in the slow and tortuous death of an animal provoked and repeatedly gored with knives and swords -- is justly in decline. The torment and death of animals for amusement can never be acceptable.
A 63-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a peacock. David Beckman was detained after the dead bird, named Phyl, was di...
I'm not saying cats deserve to die. I'm just saying, worse things could happen. You could be walking down the street, spot your girlfriend/boyfriend kissing your brother/sister at a bus stop, distractedly step into the path of a speeding dustbin lorry. Killing a few cats, though not very nice, is not synonymous with the embodiment of all evil, as everyone seems to think.
A new PETA US investigation of Hudson Valley Foie Gras - a Sullivan County, New York, farm that supplies the Gordon Ramsay-licensed restaurant at The London NYC hotel - has revealed abysmal factory-farm conditions at America's self-styled "premier producers of foie gras".
Puppy and kitten farms, or 'battery farms', are set up so that greedy traders can exploit animals in order to profit from their young. The cats and dogs used for breeding often go without proper socialisation or veterinary care and are often left in solitary confinement or in overcrowded conditions.
Animal welfare campaigners have launched an e-petition calling on the Government to ban puppy and kitten farming in the UK. Pup Aid, founded by tel...
A pet dog has been forced to have emergency surgery after eating sausages filled with nails. Police have appealed for information after Meggie, an ...
A police dog ate a pet hamster during a drugs bust, a court has been told. The sniffer dog was roaming around the house, in Werneth, Greater Manche...
A five-week-old kitten is lucky to be alive after being viciously set on fire. Justin, who weighs just one pound, was taken to the Crown Veterinar...
Convictions for animal neglect and cruelty have risen by a third in England and Wales, according to an RSPCA report. There was a 33.8% increase up ...
The tragic situation for the animals at Imperial College also shows the need for more transparency, with publication of full project licences (with names and confidential information removed) instead of sanitised PR summaries.
For elephants, family is everything. Births are joyous celebrations, and deaths are mourned. Adults share news and offer support while youngsters play together under watchful eyes. Female elephants stay at their mothers' side their entire lives.
Oxford students have had their plans to display a living shark in a tank as entertainment for a summer ball shot down by their college, over fears of ...
For elephants, family is everything. Births are joyous celebrations, and deaths are mourned. Adults share news and offer support while youngsters play together under watchful eyes. Female elephants stay at their mothers' side their entire lives.
Warning: some readers may find these pictures upsetting This is the moment a leopard went on the attack in a village in Nepal. People ran for co...
Chris Magee writes in the Huffington Post "We all agree" that the European ban on animal testing for cosmetics is "fantastic news" that has been "a long time coming", but that the research community parts company with animal protection campaigns that seek to end animal testing for veterinary and medical uses.
