The Federal Government has criticised crew members aboard the anti-whaling vessel Steve Irwin for throwing stink bombs at Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters. The Sea Shepherd activists bombarded the deck of the Nisshin Maru with bottles and packet

WASHINGTON - In the battle against offshore oil drilling, Sonoma County for the first time has cleared a congressional hurdle on the path toward protecting its rugged coastline forever.

A West group has put out an impassioned plea for volunteers to help its bid to stop some of the world's most endangered species of monkey from dying out. West-based ape conservation group the Great Primate Handshake will be flying to South Africa

Mounting evidence suggests that meat-based diets are not only unhealthy, but that just about every aspect of meat production—from grazing-related loss of cropland, to the inefficiencies of feeding of water and grain to cattle, to pollution from “factory

This severely neglected, starved and pregnant dog was abandoned, tied to a fence outside a closed animal shelter in Paterson, New Jersey more than a week ago. In sub-freezing temperatures she gave birth to eight puppies, six died not surprisingly

Not only are the Janjaweed poaching and slaughtering thousands of elephants and endangered rhinos, they are even attempting to raid warehouses containing ivory captured from other poachers, killing park rangers in the process.

Pet owners are sitting up and asking for more natural pet food.

Slow and steady, the tortoise wins the race — toward extinction. The endangered radiated tortoise inhabits a narrow band of forest along Madagascar's southwestern coast. Unless major conservation measures are enacted, Madagascar’s turtles and tortoises

Animal rights are rarely out of the news. If it’s not one set of celebrity chefs lecturing us about what kind of chicken to buy, it’s another telling us that it’s snobbish to worry about such things. The streets are filled with protesters marching against

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a gene in Asian monkeys that may have evolved as a defense against lentiviruses, the group of viruses that includes HIV. The study suggests that AIDS is not a new epidemic.