There is a North American Timber Wolf named Kei that languishes in a zoo on the far side of the Pacific. In Japan, who has lived virtually her entire life on a 7 x 4 meter concrete slab in almost total isolation from others of her species.

IAMS, the pet-food giant subsidiary of Procter & Gamble, conducts evil experiments on the same animals they market their pet-food for.Care2.com, the website naively used by so many people who DO care for the welfare of those with no voice, is right now pl

On Friday, 29 August 2008, local animal rescuers located several trucks with over seventy bamboo crates crammed with nearly 1500 cats in Jia Xing, a small city in Zhejiang Province, about an hour outside of Shanghai.

When a trainer dropped three apples into one bucket and one apple into a second, then four more apples in the first and five more in the second, the pachyderm recognised that three plus four is greater than one plus five, and snacked on the seven apples.

Tens of thousands of people fled coastal areas of Texas on Wednesday after Hurricane Ike spun off Cuba, roared into the Gulf of Mexico and headed toward the state with growing strength.

Dreidel the pint-sized Shih Tzu is back with his family after apparently fending for himself for two weeks in the woods off Plymouth Street.

Your participation is urgently needed to help ensure that her best interests are considered by Dallas decision-makers, and that she is allowed a swift retirement to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee rather than being left to languish at the Dallas Zoo.

SAN FRANCISCO - Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her longtime partner in June on the first day that California's same-sex couples gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87.

In Slovakia, huge numbers of Romani children are inappropriately placed in "special schools" for children with mental disabilities, where they receive a substandard education, and have very limited opportunities for employment and further education. Indep

Eric Ruder argues that the antiwar movement needs to respond clearly to the growing focus of U.S. military might on Afghanistan.