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 6 years, 11 months ago
Florida marks milestone in Everglades python control programFlorida is marking a milestone in its attempt to control an infestation of Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
A grizzly bear researcher was mauled in the woods. She walked two miles with a fractured skull for helpA grizzly researcher was mauled by a bear while collecting samples in a Montana mountain range.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
Some endangered frogs may be leaping back from extinctionEvolution can't stop the loss of biodiversity, but it might save some animals and plants here and there.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
Here’s why there are so many coyotes and why they are spreading so fastCoyotes were a purely North American animal that lived in the West. Now they're everywhere, and state-sponsored hunting that obliterated wolves and mountain lions is a major reason.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
TANZANIA TO OPEN UP PRISTINE GAME RESERVE FOR LOGGING AND HYDRO ELECTRIC PLANT - Conservation Action TrustTanzania is proposing large-scale logging in the middle of the Selous Game Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most iconic wildlife areas in Africa. Tender documents have revealed plans for extensive timber harvesting in the middle of the Selous Game Reserve which is also one of the oldest and largest gameRead More
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
East London Zoo plans to cage endangered Wild Dogs for ‘conservation’ - Conservation Action TrustThe troubled East London Zoo’s plans to buy Wild Dogs as soon as a moratorium on purchasing animals at the zoo is lifted are facing criticism from conservationists. The Zoo is currently undergoing an emergency ‘Turnaround Strategy’ after a global outcry over the horrid conditions in which the animals have been kept. According to SianiRead More
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months agoLions in limbo at Free State abattoir while DEA and DAFF point fingersCaptive-bred lions at a recently exposed 'lion-abattoir' in the Free State are waiting for their fate to be decided as both the Departments of Environmental Affairs (DEA) and Department of Agriculture and Fisheries are dodging responsibility for the recent mass-slaughter of captive bred animals for the lion bone export trade.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180514132453.htm
Multiple resistance genes found in commercially farmed chickens and in hospitalA team of investigators has isolated colistin-resistant Escherichia coli from a commercial poultry farm in China. Colistin is an antibiotic of last resort against certain bacteria.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/dolphinaris-reports-dolphin-death
Second dolphin death reported at Dolphinaris in ArizonaOfficials with Dolphinaris in Scottsdale say a female bottle-nose dolphin died early Tuesday morning. FOX 10's Matt Rodewald reports.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/redefining-kosher-and-connecting-with-your-haters-1.4669026
Redefining kosher, and connecting with your haters | CBC RadioRabbi David Rosen says Jewish dietary laws - kashrut - should encompass the harm caused by eating meat. Meanwhile a Jewish Inuk woman discusses how seal meat can be kosher.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
Vegan is the new kosher, rabbis worldwide declare | CBC RadioRabbi David Rosen says Jewish dietary laws - kashrut - should encompass the harm caused by eating meat. Rabbi Rosen says that vegan is the new kosher.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months agoBirds from different species recognize each other and cooperate: Researchers show for the first time how birds from two different species recognize individuals and cooperate for mutual benefitScientists show how two different species of Australian fairy-wrens not only recognize individual birds from other species, but also form long-term partnerships that help them forage and defend their shared space as a group.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months agoChimpanzee calls differ according to context: The need for cooperation may facilitate call diversificationAn important question in the evolution of language is what caused animal calls to diversify and to encode different information. A team of scientists has found that chimpanzees use the quiet 'hoo' call in three different behavioral contexts -- alert, travel and rest. The need to stay together in low visibility habitat may have facilitated the evolution of call subtypes.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
A Rhino in San Diego Is Pregnant—and Could Help Save the SubspeciesA southern white rhino named Victoria has become pregnant through artificial insemination at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
Giant predatory worms invaded France, but scientists just noticed themTerrorized kindergartners playing in a field thought the massive worms were snakes.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6390/788
One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressureProtected areas are increasingly recognized as an essential way to safeguard biodiversity. Although the percentage of land included in the global protected area network has increased from 9 to 15%, Jones et al. found that a third of this area is influenced by intensive human activity. Thus, Read more...
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/science/humpback-whale-antarctica.html
Humpback Whale Baby Boom Near AntarcticaPregnancy rates in the southern oceans are high, according to a study that showed the species is rebounding, a rare piece of good news for whales.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
Is This the World’s Most Diverse National Park?Bringing the numbers to life for the jewel in Bolivia’s conservation crown.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months agoHuman race just 0.01% of all life but has eradicated most other living thingsGroundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity’s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 6 years, 11 months ago
Unique experiment as endangered ‘young tiger couple’ to be returned into the wildShe and he were cruelly orphaned by poachers, and he was also shot and wounded but is now cured: how will they cope together roaming the wild?