Mary Lou Petrucci was fined $2,375.00 for 48 summary counts of cruelty to animals. Montgomery County SPCA expended $122,304 caring for 31 dogs and 16 cats since July 2006. The animals could not be put up for adoption until the court case was settled.

Naysa's road to recovery

Three of the Japanese snow monkeys introduced to the Highland Wildlife Park, near Aviemore, as a major tourist attraction have died.

Keepers at the Alaska Zoo are mourning the deaths of two snow leopard cubs born this week. The deaths marked the zoo's second failed effort to produce leopard offspring in captivity.

The body of a large fish was found washed up on Barry Island beach in the Vale of Glamorgan. It was a torpedo-shaped fish over six feet long with a long snout, a crescent tail and curved back fin.

A Royal Bengal tigress was flown to Rajasthan's Sariska tiger reserve from the Ranthambore national park on Friday to give company to a tiger relocated there last week. The tiger was shifted from Ranthambore on June 28.

The environmentalist organization has found "significant and serious deficiencies" in certain areas with stable presence of the species.

The ASPCA is assisting in Tennessee's largest-ever puppy mill raid of more than 700 dogs, lending a special forensic cruelty investigation team that includes two forensic veterinarians, as well as its "Mobile Animal Crime Scene Investigation Unit,

A dramatic decline in the population of Bengal tigers in a Nepalese wildlife reserve has the World Wildlife Fund blaming the "powerful global Mafia that controls illegal wildlife trade."

A Government decision not to allow a cull of badgers to tackle tuberculosis in cattle is "a disaster", farmers' leaders said today.