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, 5 months ago“Scientists have found that a session of electrical brain stimulation can reduce people’s intentions to commit assaults, and raise their moral a…[Read more]
Electrical brain stimulation may help reduce violent crime in future – studyResearchers found that applying an electric current to a part of the brain linked to violent acts reduced people’s intentions to commit assault
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months agoAustralia needs tighter ivory sale laws to protect elephants, parliamentary committee hearsParliament looking at whether Australia’s regulations allow poached ivory and horns to be passed off as antiques
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months agoWhy school trips to abattoirs are essentialCountryfile presenter Tom Heap is right to call for school visits to slaughterhouses. It is time children learned the truth about food production
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months agoOutrage after American woman hunts and kills rare giraffe in South AfricaTess Thompson posted Facebook photos of her next to the giraffe’s carcass
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
He was trying to rescue a sick baby goat, he said. NC cops charged him with felonies.Animal activist and lawyer Wayne Hsiung was arrested and faces felony charges and potential jail time for stealing a goat from a meat farm. He says he was trying to rescue the sick baby goat.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months agoCar collisions with wildlife are getting worse in OntarioCollisions spike in the fall − mating season for deer and moose. But they happen all year.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
Banff ditches big-bang Canada Day fireworks to protect wildlifeTown praised for switching to much quieter pyrotechnics display to avoid terrifying animals in the area.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/02/country-diary-swans-river-bank-otley-wharfedale
Country diary: swanning around the river bankOtley, Wharfedale: A pair of mute swans build their riverside nest in an exposed spot, untroubled by their urban neighbours
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months agoOutrage over alleged plan to export rare animals from Congo to ChinaFury among wildlife groups as leaked letter to Congolese minister suggests Chinese zoos want gorillas and other endangered species
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-018-3364-5
Important juvenile manta ray habitat at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the northwestern Gulf of MexicoOceanic manta rays ( Mobula birostris) are large pelagic planktivores that are threatened globally by targeted fisheries and bycatch. While studies of oceanic mantas have increased substantially in...
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
http://abc13.com/pets-animals/ex-game-show-host-bob-barker-buys-land-to-save-donkeys/3670962/
Ex-game show host Bob Barker buys land to save donkeys"I grew up on an Indian reservation in South Dakota, and saw animals of all kinds," said Barker. "I never met a donkey I didn't like."
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
https://www.care2.com/causes/6-reasons-to-keep-cats-inside.html
7 Reasons to Keep Cats Inside | Care2 CausesFelix might enjoy going out, but there's a laundry list of reasons to keep your kitty indoors. Learn more about the benefits of an indoor-only lifestyle!
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
Here’s How China Is Moving Away From Animal TestingChina is the last major country to require animal testing of beauty products.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
https://www.ewg.org/research/superbugs/
Supermarket Meat Contaminated with Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.EWG’s most recent analysis of more than 47,000 federal government lab tests of bacteria on supermarket meat found an increase in the already high number of pork chops and ground beef contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/01/animal-cruelty-and-film-classification
Animal cruelty and film classification | LettersLetters: Craig Lapper of the film classification board explains its decisions on cutting scenes of animal cruelty
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months agoChicken decapitation and battered cats: Hollywood’s history of animal crueltyThe sight of a duckling having its foot prised off in Lars von Trier’s new film sent Cannes audiences scurrying. But it’s nothing compared to these real-life horrors
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
Opinion | There Is Nothing More All-American Than the Veggie BurgerFire up the grill and celebrate July 4 with plant protein.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/climate/belize-reef-unesco.html?module=WatchingPortal®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=17&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F06%2F27%2Fclimate%2Fbelize-reef-unesco.ht…[Read more]
A Victory for Coral: Unesco Removes Belize Reef From Its Endangered ListThe Belize Barrier Reef has been removed from the United Nations list of threatened world heritage sites because it no longer faces immediate danger from development.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
Six of the best - tigress gives birth to half a dozen cubs from one of the world’s most endangered speciesNow the difficult task for zoo keepers: stop the mother eating them.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180626-why-owls-might-suffer-in-a-cashless-society
The strange reason owl theft may be on the riseAs cash is replaced by contactless payments and online transactions criminals are stealing an eclectic mix of loot