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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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoLondon Zoo should close because it is 'sign of our failure as aLondon Zoo should be shut down because it is not looking after animals properly or releasing enough back into the wild, campaigner Damian Aspinall has claimed.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoEvolution: Greater than the sum of its parts | The EconomistIt is rare for a new animal species to emerge in front of scientists’ eyes. But this seems to be happening in eastern North America
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
http://nation.com.pk/columns/26-Feb-2017/my-family-and-other-animals
‘My family and other animals’I have often filled my Sunday column with stories from the animal kingdom and it is in that spirit that I have borrowed the caption of this weeks piece from
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
http://www.iol.co.za/mercury/world/malaysian-zoo-defends-acquisition-of-gorillas-85668
Malaysian zoo defends acquisition of gorillas | IOLA Malaysian zoo has defended its acquisition of four rare baby gorillas from Nigeria, saying the new arrivals were intended ...
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoBanning the BBC for its Kaziranga story is a dangerous act of muzzling the mediaThe National Tiger Conservation Authority last month banned the BBC from filming in India's national parks for five years.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoZoos are prisons for animals – no one needs to see a depressed penguin in the fleshIn an age when David Attenborough can virtually take us inside an elephant’s bottom, is there any or conservational value to keeping animals in captivity?
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoAn NGO For Animal Protection Is Making Travel Industries Across The Globe Elephant-FriendlyAnimals are subjected to much cruelty behind the entertaining animal tourist industry.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3031881/swedish-zookeeper-reveals-photos-secretive-north-korea-zoo/
Zookeeper reveals never-before-seen photos of North Korea's zooTHESE incredible photos offer a fascinating glimpse into everyday life inside North Korea’s infamous Pyongyang Zoo – where a chain-smoking chimp is the star attraction. They show hordes…
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoIrish gang in the frame for theft of rhino horn after animal shot dead in French zooTHE notorious Rathkeale Rovers are in the frame for the theft of a rhino horn in France on Monday night. French investigators contacted gardai on Tuesday in a bid to establish if officers here had …
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoPETA shelter was a 'slaughterhouse,' group claimsA national consumer non-profit group is assailing People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, for killing more than 1,000 dogs and cats last year at its headquarters in Norfolk, Va.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoAurora Animal Control claims longtime family dog is wolf hybrid, won’t return him to ownersAURORA, Colo. -- A family said Aurora Animal Control took their dog and won't give him back, claiming the dog is a wolf-hybrid. The Abbato family has had Capone for nearly 10 years. They rescued him from the Adams County Animal Shelter where he was classified as a German shepherd mix. The family's veterinarian also says the same thing. But Aurora Animal Control thinks Capone is a wolf-hybrid.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoThe tusks of narwhals are actually teeth that are inside-outThere's a popular idea that narwhals use their long tusks to spear food, like a nautical kebab. The reality is even stranger
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160715-baby-boom-for-worlds-rarest-parrot?ocid=fbert
Baby boom for world’s rarest parrotNew Zealand’s critically endangered kakapo hatches out a record-breaking number of chicks this spring, set to increase their population by nearly a third
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoTime to bust a myth: not all mammals are warm-bloodedWe are taught that all mammals have warm blood, but in fact there are a few exceptions to this rule
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoThe disaster that helped end the US whaling industryRemnants from a graveyard of ships in the Arctic is yielding new insights into a disaster that helped end the whaling industry
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170227-there-are-frogs-that-breed-high-up-in-trees?ocid=fbert
There are frogs that breed high up in treesWe think of frogs as laying their eggs in ponds, but a few species have taken to breeding in trees like birds
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 7 years, 2 months agoThere are over 100 definitions for 'life' and all are wrongIt is surprisingly difficult to pin down the difference between living and non-living things