Activists Demand Azerbaijan Stop Mass Dog Killings
Activists continue to fight the ongoing stray dog massacre in Azerbaijan. Sign the petition to add your support.
Browsing: Nuisance animals
Sanctuaries Not the Answer to Human-Elephant Conflict
Habitat destruction and fragmentation are a root cause of human-elephant conflict in Malaysia, where deforestation has pushed elephants out of their habitats. Friends of the Earth Malaysia argues that sanctuaries are not the answer.
The Great Elephant Debate: Myth-Busting Jumbo Fallacies
Botswana has a growing population of humans and cattle, not elephants. Outside protected areas, desertification caused by cattle over-grazing too often gets ignored. Hunting will not solve this problem; appropriate land use planning will.
An Update on Azerbaijan’s Stray Dog Massacre
Activists in Azerbaijan report on two major organized threats against dogs: hired nighttime shootings by city workers, and a so-called shelter that operates in secrecy and makes dogs disappear.
Are Sanctuaries an Acceptable Solution for “Excess” Wild Horses?
Even though such confinements (‘sanctuaries’) currently offer a solution better than death in a slaughterhouse or via euthanasia, they are far from being close to an ideal solution.
Helping India’s Street Dogs
Millions of street dogs live in India, and many people there are fearful of them due to the risk of rabies. A combination of mass sterilization, rabies vaccination, and community education improves the situation for dogs and humans alike.
California Residents: New Action Needed to Save Animals from Deadly Poisons!
California residents, please act now to help ban deadly rodenticides, which cause painful and slow deaths to rodents and then poison the wild predators who eat them.
Botswana’s Elephants: Myths vs. Facts
The recent lifting of Botswana’s elephant hunting ban was made possible, in part, by myths about elephants and the impacts of hunting. Those lies are exposed here.
Azerbaijan’s Mass Slaughter of Stray Dogs Continues
Azerbaijan’s animal activist community has issued a statement pleading with the international community to help them put an end to the mass abuse and killing of stray dogs. Despite being illegal, the violence is carried out by authorities such as police and shelter employees.
Authorities Continue to Harass and Haze Yellowstone Buffalo and Their Babies
Help gain more ground for wild, migratory buffalo, so that no calf or pregnant mom is ever chased off the lands that are their birthright. Public comments are due by June 6, 2019.
Australia’s New Public Enemy Number One: Cats
Australian authorities hope to kill two million feral cats by 2020.
Laparoscopic Sterilization of Invasive Nutria
These semiaquatic rodents can reproduce rapidly and cause environmental degradation in habitats where they lack predators, but that doesn’t mean they deserve to be killed. A program in Italy has had great success with surgically sterilizing and releasing them.