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
Having dogs in bedroom doesn't hurt your sleep quality, Mayo study saysThe new Mayo Clinic study could have a big impact on sleep medicine, given that 43 million American homes have dogs.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/22/bad-karma-buddhists-released-hundreds-lobsters-channel/
Bad karma for the Buddhists who released hundreds of lobsters into the ChannelWhen John Lennon sang ‘Instant karma’s gonna get you’, what he can't have had in mind is the sight of buddhists releasing hundreds of lobsters into the Channel to save them from the pot.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
http://www.care2.com/causes/for-species-at-risk-of-extinction-size-matters.html
For Species At Risk Of Extinction, Size Matters | Care2 CausesA new study is raising concerns that when it comes to species at risk of disappearing, size is going to matter a lot.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Police Sued By Animal Rights Group For Allowing Cruel Chicken Ritual | Care2 CausesIn an ancient Jewish atonement ritual called Kapparot, live chickens are held by their wings and swung above people's heads.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months agoExotic pet owners of Beijing – in picturesA dramatic rise in owning exotic pets in China is fuelling global demand for threatened species. The growing trade in alligators, snakes, monkeys, crocodiles and spiders is directly linked to species loss in some of the world’s most threatened ecosystems
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
Amidst A Brutal Hurricane Season, Abandoned Pets Turn Feral In Empty Cities | Care2 CausesFirst Harvey, then Irma, Jose, and now Maria. Care2 writers have written about the pets left locked up or chained while their so-called families fled their
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
Scientists just discovered the first brainless animal that sleepsThe research could reveal where sleep came from and why we must spend so much time doing it.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
Asian immigrants in South Africa, traditional Asian medicine and wildlife trade hotspots | Saturday StarSouth Africans using traditional Asian medicines believe rhino horn may cure cancer
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
Diplomats and Deceit - North Korea's Criminal Activities in Africa - Conservation Action TrustA new report by The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime lifts the lid on state-sanctioned North Korean criminal activity in Africa, exposing diplomats and embassies linked to illicit trade in rhino horn, ivory, ci Read more...
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/wildlife-pays-price-kenyas-illegal-grazing-091905813.html
Wildlife pays the price of Kenya's illegal grazing"They're all dead." Months of invasions by sometimes armed semi-nomadic herders, and tens of thousands of their livestock, have had a disastrous impact on the wildlife of a region heralded as a conservation success story. African wild dogs, elephants, buffalo, lions, giraffes, zebra and
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months agoIsle of Dogs: watch the trailer for Wes Anderson's dystopian canine epicSet in a future Japan where dogs have been banished to an island of garbage, the film features the voice work of Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Yoko Ono
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months agoBehold, the latest must-have wedding accessory: dead butterflies | Rhiannon Lucy CosslettReleasing soon-to-be-dead insects as the knot is tied is the latest witless idea from an industry that churns out identikit ceremonies for exorbitant fees, says freelance writer Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
Guggenheim Exhibit With Video of Dogs Trying to Fight Stirs CriticismFacing a backlash, the museum put out a statement defending an exhibition by Chinese conceptual artists that is to open on Oct. 6.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months agoOctlantis: the underwater city built by octopusesThe discovery of aquatic architecture has led scientists to compare the behaviour of cephalopods to humans – but octopus city life is no utopia
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/nature/2017/09/we-are-heading-towards-world-without-animals
We are heading towards a world without animalsA little over 20 years ago, I saw a slender-billed curlew. Now it’s extinct.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
http://projects.seattletimes.com/2017/wsu-wolf-researcher-wielgus/
Outspoken WSU wolf researcher says university, lawmakers silenced and punished himA WSU researcher ignited controversy when he claimed a Washington rancher chose to put his cattle near a wolf den.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
http://www.care2.com/causes/snow-leopards-are-no-longer-endangered-but-theyre-also-not-safe.html
Snow Leopards Are No Longer Endangered, But They're Also Not Safe | Care2 CausesSnow leopards were just downlisted from Endangered to Vulnerable, but experts are warning that they're not safe yet.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
Success! California Poised To Become First State To Ban Puppy Mills | Care2 CausesA Care2 petition asking people to support CA's AB 485, which requires pet stores to only obtain their animals from shelter or rescue groups has succeeded.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months agoCould lab-grown fish and meat feed the world – without killing a single animal?Critics dismiss it as unnatural ‘Frankenmeat’, but the San Francisco startups racing to take animal-free meat and fish to market think it’s wonder food. So how were the carp croquettes at the world’s first cultured fish tasting?
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
Wild Bison Killed After Wandering Across Border Into GermanyA local official ordered hunters to kill the rare animal last week after it crossed over from Poland. “Animals don’t know country borders,” a conservationist said.