Earlier this week, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office and the Humane Society of the United States announced plans for a novel new approach to combating animal cruelty in L.A. County: A 24-hour tip line, manned by both English and Spanish

Georgia state Rep. Tom Knox has introduced Grace's Law, H.B. 788, which will be considered by the House Committee on Science and Technology during the 2010 session. Under this version carbon monoxide gas chambers along with decompression chambers and

Officials in Patna on Saturday thwarted an attempt by local fishermen who ensnared a dolphin but dumped it back in the water to die after being chased away by a Ganga patrolling team.

Some 100 cubs were expected to be born in the world's largest Siberian tiger artificial breeding center in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province in 2010, or the year of tiger in China.

The Assam forest department has launched an operation to rescue leopard cubs whose mother was run over by a speeding vehicle on National Highway 37 at Bongaon in Golaghat district in the wee hours today.

Nepal's greater one-horned rhino population is on the road to recovery, following almost a decade of steep decline caused by poaching. Conservationists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have joined forces with local communities to form a team

Numbers on the bird's main wintering grounds in Europe have halved since 1994 and there have been big falls in the number of breeding pairs in its heartlands of Spain, France and Germany. In fact, so alarming is the drop in numbers that the EU has now

Two grandmother monkeys have been seen intervening to raise their own grandchildren, providing essential care including suckling the young.

Upon hearing about the BLM's plans for the large-scale removal of 2,500 horses in northwest Nevada near the Black Rock Desert, more than seven thousand citizens submitted public comments to the BLM opposing the Calico Mountain Complex Round Up, scheduled

Seven undercover investigations have exposed horrific HLS abuse: Technicians push naso-gastric tubes into dogs' lungs, drowning them. Animals dangling from slings or cowering in cages