When Knut was born his mother ignored him, zoo officials and chose to raise him themselves. Animal rights activists argue that he should be given a lethal injection rather than brought up suffering the humiliation of being treated as a domestic pet.

The desperate hope among their human minders is that the pair, Tiger Woods and Cathay, will be the first of their species to breed outside a zoo for decades.

Dormice, woodpeckers and bats are on the verge of dying out due to the neglect of ancient forests.British woodlands have been allowed to decay to such an extent that entire species of plants and animals are vanishing, a parliamentary report says.

Peta, which is pro-vegetarian, has stood by its two volunteers, insisting there was "absolutely no cruelty" involved in the animals' killing and that they were "simply doing their job" in "euthanising" animals to save them from overcrowded shelters.

A group of animal rights extremists has begun a terror campaign in memory of a "martyr" who died in a prison hunger strike.Detectives are trying to identify the group which has already carried out a series of firebomb attacks in the name of Barry Horne.

The dog carcasses always appeared late on Wednesday nights, wrapped in black trash bags and stuffed in the Dumpster behind the Piggly Wiggly supermarket...

If a "Jackass" star is calling you "abusive," you know you're in trouble. TMZ got the first look at a video ad for peta2 -- the youth-centric offshoot of PETA -- in which the one and only Steve-O lashes out against animal cruelty in the circus. The...

From July 1998 through the end of 2005, PETA killed over 14,400 dogs, cats, and other "companion animals" -- at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters.

During the early hours of Sept. 7, vandals opened the pens of 14,000 mink at the Earl Drewelow and Sons fur farm in New Hampton, Iowa, the largest release of farm animals in US history.(1) Two weeks later, almost 10,000 are either dead, dying or unaccount

December 27, 2006 - ENGLEWOOD, Ohio (AP) - A couple believed to have drowned while trying to save the family dog was identified Tuesday by Five Rivers MetroParks officials as Craig and Patricia Wenner, both 50.