In recent years, major news outlets have started taking note of the animal movement, and including coverage of animal rights, welfare, and conservation issues on a daily basis. Check out our curated selection of top stories from around the world, updated every day.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoDevotees defy ban; hurl sheep during Karnataka temple festivalApart from monitoring of the checkposts, the police had even, for the first time, deployed a drone camera in the hilly area where over 1 lakh pilgrims were expected.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoIn India, Tension Over Traditions Perilous to Animals and Humans AlikeThousands of Indians are protesting a ban on a bull-wrestling tradition in Tamil Nadu, but it isn’t the only cultural tradition coming under scrutiny.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago‘They kept coming back’: Dogs attack schoolchildren, killing one and mauling anotherThe mauling in an Atlanta neighborhood left the community wondering how welcoming it wants to be to certain dog breeds.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoOutdoor Pets Suffering In D.C. Extreme Weather Due To Inadequate Laws | Care2 CausesThe District of Columbia can't seem to help save outdoor pets who are left to freeze by uncaring owners.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoAnts find their way even when going backwardsAnts can get their bearings whatever the orientation of their body, new research shows. Their brains may be smaller than the head of a pin, but ants are excellent navigators that use celestial and terrestrial cues to memorize their paths. To do so, they use several regions of the brain simultaneously, proving once again that the brain of insects is more complex than thought.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/flocking-starlings-evade-predators-confusion-effect
Flocking starlings evade predators with ‘confusion effect’Visual overload perplexes human video game players
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/19/stray-dogs-yangon-myanmar-mass-cull-child-attacks
'I want to kill these dogs': question of whether to cull strays divides YangonMyanmar’s commercial capital is overrun with an estimated 120,000 stray dogs, which attack children and carry the threat of rabies. Mass culling was recently stopped but spay, neuter and vaccinate programmes have yet to start
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoReview: A Frothy Look at the Fur Trade in Netflix’s ‘Frontier’Pelts and hides, the gold of the 1700s, inspire greed and gruesomeness in a new drama from Canada.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoHow Zoo Animals Learn to Help Take Care of ThemselvesZoo animals require care that emphasizes their welfare if people want them to have long lives like Colo, the gorilla that just died at 60 in Ohio.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoPet Pigs of New York: Illegal, Embattled, BelovedA ban on the animals hasn’t stopped some residents from keeping them.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
Human Population and Animal Extinctions: An Interview with Dr. Jeffrey McKee
Human Population and Animal Extinctions: Dr. Jeffery McKee"As our human population grows and our difficulties mount to feed over 7 billion people, we are not the only species at stake."
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago‘A Dog’s Purpose’ Faces Outrage Over Video of Distressed German ShepherdFor a movie aimed squarely at an audience of dog lovers, the footage threatens to repel the precise audience filmmakers hope to draw.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago'Fox Jallikattu' organised in Salem; forest officials watch - Times of IndiaForest officials on Wednesday allowed the villagers of Chinnamanaickenpalayam near Salem to organise a Jallikattu-like event with a fox.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoDesperate attempt to save Siberian tiger cub shot in head by poachersPioneering life-saving operation to be carried out this week, as bid made to find and shame the gunman.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoFuture of Public Lands and Wild Horses Topics at Ryan Zinke’s Interior Secretary Confirmation HearingJanuary 19, 2017 At a three-hour confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), President Elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Interior, fielded a wide range of questions spanning about climate change, energy development, national monuments and tribal sovereignty.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/19/if-you-were-an-elephant-
If you were an elephant …… the world would be a brighter, smellier, noisier place – and you would be a better, wiser, kinder person. The author of Being a Beast explains all
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
Archeologists Discover Nearly 2,000-Year-Old Pet Cemetery in Egypt
Containing 100 lovingly positioned creatures, the site suggests that the ancients could have valued their companion animals as much as we do
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archeologists-discover-ancient-pet-cemetery-egypt-180961292/#quSdRFKF3BP9akvY.99 -
Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
http://earthraceconservation.org/breaking-news-whale-slaughterhouse-found/
Breaking News - Whale Slaughterhouse FoundThe Japanese Whaling Processing ship (Nisshin Maru) has just been located in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Sea Shepherd reported this morning that they had filmed the vessel from their helicopter, and that a whale was part-processed on the main deck. It raises some interesting questions.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/stop-drinking-milk
Why You Should Stop Drinking MilkA milk-mustache might not be so cute after all. Turns out your doctor may be wrong about milk.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
http://www.livescience.com/57526-worlds-oldest-gorilla-colo-dies.html
Goodnight, Colo! Oldest Gorilla in the US Dies in SleepJust one month after her 60th birthday, Colo, the world's oldest known gorilla, has died peacefully in her sleep.