An animal trainer is in critical condition after he was mauled by three tigers in front of a Hamburg dinner theatre audience

A man saved a lab named Raja from a burning house. There were no injuries. Picture is not of Raja.

The shooting of three wild horses in Alberta, Canada, including a heavily pregnant mare, has sparked growing anger among the local horse community.

The Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare will be an agreement among people and between nations to recognize the sentience of animals, respect their welfare needs and bring an end to animal cruelty. Please take the time to sign the petition.

New York City officials recently announced that the notorious elephant abusers at Ringling Bros. Circus will be at Coney Island for several months this summer thanks to a land donation from Taconic Investments. Sign the petition to stop animal cruelty.

Four days. Idaho's eager-to-kill governor and others could be heading out with their guns to start killing wolves in just 4 days. Please join Defenders of Wildlife in demanding (OK, Defenders says "urge"; I'm the one saying "demand") that Obama reverse

Three wild boars were put to sleep in Iraq on Friday because of swine flu fears, a zoo official said. The decision to kill the 10-year-old wild boars in Baghdad was a precautionary measure by the government to prevent an outbreak of swine flu

According to veterinarian Dr. Michael Watts, cats and other pets are unlikely to catch swine flu. Even pigs are unlikely to catch it, and so far all the cases in people in the US have come from contact with infected humans, not from pigs.

Animal rights' activists fight the abuse, neglect, mistreatment and torture of animals on many fronts. The monumental battles to stop the senseless killing of animals by the fur and skin trade, the use of animals in medical and cosmetic experimentation,

Euro MPs voting on animal experiments must resist aggressive pro-vivisection lobbying and embrace science without suffering.