New Zealand -- Some 125 pilot whales died in New Zealand after stranding on the beach over the weekend - but vacationers and conservation workers Sunday managed to coax 43 others back out to sea.

Despite recent reports that bear dancing has been completely eradicated from India, a lot of work still needs to be done before we can truly celebrate the end of this cruel practice; more bears remain in need of rescue.

Just horrific - live geese plucked several times over their lifetime - it doesn't bear thinking about!

Captain Paul Watson, head of anti-whaling activist organization Sea Shepherd, got the Obama treatment: a patriotic red, white and blue portrait by Shepherd Fairey, the same artist responsible for that iconic portrait of our President.

The best photos of 2009 24 DecBe moved, humbled and amazed by our selection of the most outstanding photos from the year.

The Seminole Tribe has applied for a permit to expand a rock mine in a remote corner of northwest Broward County, in a proposal that could generate opposition from environmentalists concerned about the Florida panther

We need to urge our elected officials to pressure the EPA to IMMEDIATELY BAN the use of Rozol grain bait.

The last wild Indochinese tiger in China was killed and eaten by a man who was yesterday sentenced to 12 years' jail. Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla, Yunnan Province, came across the tiger in February while gathering freshwater clams in a nature

Although the Florida panther has been listed as endangered since 1967 fewer than 100 remain.

Every cause here could write volumes on the irresponsibility of the media. When it comes to animal welfare, bad reporting can cost lives. The most obvious, and common, examples of this are pit bull headlines. You'll see things like Pit Bull Mauls