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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App allows city-dwellers to turn citizen scientists and track Australia's urban birdsBig City Birds app launched to help researchers better understand sulphur-crested cockatoo, ibis and brush-turkey
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
A Sick Swan Is Saved After a 23-Mile Odyssey by Foot, Car and SubwayA woman with the right training noticed a bird’s odd behavior and made it her mission to undertake a very urban rescue.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
https://theconversation.com/how-coyotes-and-humans-can-learn-to-coexist-in-cities-147738?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%2010%202020%20-%201782017287&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%2010%202020%20-%201782017287+CID_1a3b8293e15c7ac6efd7ae7e9e0eb610&utm_source=campaign_…[Read more]
How coyotes and humans can learn to coexist in citiesLethal methods and relocation aren't effective, sustainable or humane approaches to human-wildlife conflicts.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
UK health professions call for climate tax on meatFood with heavy environmental impact should be taxed by 2025 unless food industry acts voluntarily, says alliance
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
Of mice and men: Could COVID spell the end of animal testing? | Corporate KnightsThe vaccine race is accelerating the emergence of a new frontier in science looking at alternatives to animal modelling
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
Lawsuit planned over hunting, fishing at U.S. wildlife refugesAn environmental group says the Trump administration is violating the Endangered Species Act by expanding hunting and fishing by 3,600 square miles on the national wildlife refuge system and national fish hatchery system
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
The Covid-carrying Danish mink are a warning sign – but is anyone heeding it? | Matthew BaylisSars, Mers, now this: we must think hard about how we farm animals that are known hosts of human coronaviruses, says Matthew Baylis, the Oxenhale chair of veterinary epidemiology at the University of Liverpool
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
Scott Beckstead: Time to put an end to mink farming in UtahMany of my fondest childhood memories are of time spent with my grandfather, a mink farmer in the tiny town of Franklin, Idaho, located just a few miles north of the Utah border. A soft-spoken, kind and generous man, my grandfather doted on his children, including my mother, and on me and his other grandkids.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
Cutting Greenhouse Gases From Food Production Is Urgent, Scientists SayEfforts to limit global warming often focus on emissions from fossil fuels, but food is crucial, too, according to new research.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
The Man Who Made Us Feel for the AnimalsIn “A Traitor to His Species,” Ernest Freeberg tells the story of Henry Bergh, the 19th-century eccentric who founded the A.S.P.C.A.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
The EU has put plant-based burgers back on the menu | Alicia KennedyThe decision to allow meat and dairy words to be used on vegetarian food suggests diets are changing for the better, says the writer Alicia Kennedy
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/oct/26/veganuary-movement-plant-based-food
Veganuary movement to welcome 1 millionth participantUK-based campaign boosted by surge in people buying plant-based food during the pandemic
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
Badgers culled despite two studies casting doubt on TB link, say vetsGroup of leading vets claim research, not published for two years, shows the mammals would have been unlikely to infect cattle
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
Sound of the city: monkeys shown to prefer traffic over jungle noiseExperiment let the primates choose what they wanted to hear, with rumbling vehicles thought to mimic elements of their own communications
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/06/colorado-votes-reintroduce-wolves-2023
Wolves win in Colorado after vote for reintroduction by 2023Wolves were hunted and trapped to extinction in the state in the 1940s
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
Gimme shell-ter: Thai hermit crabs face housing crisisPopulation of crustaceans at one national park has exploded amid drop in tourist numbers
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
Jockeys get no benefit from using a whip in horse racing, landmark study findsThe findings come as Racing Victoria leads a push for Australia to limit how many times a rider can whip their horse during a race
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
Danish Covid mink cull and future disease fears will kill fur trade, say farmersMutation that led to government order fuels debate about future of fur and safety of farms
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
Fur is out of favour but stays in fashion through stealth and wealthAs mink comes under the spotlight, many stars wouldn’t be seen dead in fur – but it remains a feature of certain luxury brands
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/09/elephants-roaming-land-emptied-by-insurgency
Hunger fears in north-east Nigeria as roaming elephants trample cropsAnimals have ventured back into areas largely emptied of people by Boko Haram insurgency