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, 8 months ago
A mother bear and two ‘shrieking’ newborn cubs were killed in their den by hunters, troopers sayAndrew Renner, 41, and his 18-year-old son, Owen, have been charged with illegally hunting a mother bear and her two newborn cubs.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Meet Iceland’s Whaling Magnate. He Makes No Apologies.Kristjan Loftsson’s company is the last one in the world still hunting fin whales. His credo: “If it’s sustainable, you hunt.”
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Book clinic: which books best capture our relationship with animals?Carl Safina’s educated anthropomorphism and Alex Preston’s vivid bird portraits are the wild stuff to illuminate our place in the natural world
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/28/re-origin-species-torill-kornfeldt-review
The Re-Origin of Species by Torill Kornfeldt review – bringing extinct animals back to lifeThe ‘de-extinction’ of vanished wild animals, from the woolly mammoth to the Pyrenean ibex, raises deep questions about our relationship to nature
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/28/australia-northern-quoll-endangered-cane-toad
Can science save Australia’s quoll from a deadly diet?Targeted genetics will help a threatened species spurn a poisonous toad meal
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Anna Jones’s recipes for carrot marmalade and a vegetarian roastThe modern cook Stew carrots down with citrus for a sweet-and-sour conserve, or cook seeded yorshire puddings as part of a meatless family meal
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Pets displaced by California fires find a 'little bit of home' at strip mallShasta Gateway mall outside Redding, California, is hosting about 463 animals – including dogs, cats, birds and rabbits – and an army of 400 volunteers
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-45144424#
Cows can visit nudist beach in heatwaveThe Swedish government is allowing farmers in the south to bring their cows to the beaches because of the roasting summer heat.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
The article doesn’t explain why the aging animals have not remained with their families. People should not be encouraged to give up elderly companion animals.
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-45142801#
Belgium's retirement home for elderly animalsCats, dogs and other animals can live out their final days in peace in this unusual care home.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45150298#
Police rescue man from baby squirrelOfficers respond to a call saying the animal was chasing a man down the street in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45141306#
Rise in wolf attacks alarms Dutch farmersAfter one wolf killed 26 sheep Dutch farmers worry about installing costly electric fencing.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months agoLost Norse of Greenland fueled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggestsNew DNA analysis reveals that, before their mysterious disappearance, the Norse colonies of Greenland had a 'near monopoly' on Europe's walrus ivory supply. An overreliance on this trade may have contributed to Norse Greenland's collapse when the medieval market declined.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months agoA video game can change the brain, may improve empathy in middle schoolersA fantastical scenario involving a space-exploring robot crashing on a distant planet is the premise of a video game developed for middle schoolers by researchers to study whether video games can boost kids' empathy, and to understand how learning such skills can change neural connections in the brain.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
ONEKIND: New investigation and report “Fish welfare on Scotland’s salmon farms” - Eurogroup for AnimalsWith support from Eurogroup for Animals, OneKind has published a report examining the welfare issues in Scotland’s salmon farming sector. The report looks at the life cycle, sentience and individuality in salmon before exploring in detail the many welfare issues faced by farmed salmon. On top of the disease and parasite problems affecting large portions …
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05515-8
Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephantsWild Asian elephants have been and continue to be captured to supplement captive populations. Here, Lahdenperä et al. use records from Myanmar timber elephants to show that wild-caught elephants have increased mortality compared to captive-born elephants for many years after capture.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
We're all going on a scat hunt: how citizen science can help save echidnasOrdinary Australians are making a difference for teams that rely on raw data such as the University of Adelaide’s recent project on the monotremes
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
http://time.com/5361963/police-alaska-bear-cubs-shooting/
Father and Son Caught Killing Black Bear and Cubs in AlaskaIt's illegal to kill black bear cubs or sows with cubs in most of the state
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
The Humane Society of the United States releases a new poll revealing that Alaskan voters strongly oppose cruel methods of killing iconic wildlife on National Preserves in AlaskaA new statewide poll by Remington Research Group commissioned by the Humane Society of the United States shows that a supermajority of Alaskans strongly oppose the Department of the Interior’s plan to permit the use of cruel and unsporting practices to kill bears, wolves and caribou on the National Park Service’s National Preserve lands in Alaska.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Marine Mammals Have Lost a Gene That Now They May Desperately NeedDolphins, manatees, sea lions, elephant seals and other animals no longer produce an enzyme that protects land mammals against harmful chemicals, including some pesticides.
