In 2007 alone, 3.7 million Australian sheep were sent to the Middle East for slaughter. These animals endured a long and grueling journey by both road and sea. More than 35,000 of them died during the sea voyage from heat exhaustion, infection, injury, an

There are no laws against animal cruelty in China. The only prohibition is against killing endangered species. Torture is not even an issue. The following articles will give you an idea of the kind of disregard the Chinese authorities have for animal

The "shortfall" in ivory described in the document between 1991 and 2002 -- equal to the tusks from about 11,000 dead elephants -- could provide fodder for representatives of a U.N. accord to reject China's attempt next week to gain permission to import

Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month's Olympics

We have had a number of comments on seal hunting that have been posted under other blog entries. The Commission is preparing a legislative proposal on this issue and it is a subject that Commissioner Dimas will be returning to in a future blog.

"The Humane Society of the United States brought to our attention its issues about the fur industry. They did so in a thoughtful, measured way. We listened, and decided that they are right. So we are going fur-free."

The spirit of America has long been symbolized by the wild horses that gallop across its plains, so much so that the federal government enacted legislation to protect them back in the '70s. But now, the very agency charged with protecting wild horses is

Unprecedented incident of abuse and killing an animal, have in mind antidimarchou Chania, Evangelos Samata members AR organisations in the prefecture and asked for measures to tackle the problem of abuse and mass poisoning of feral animals.

We're peitioning for the UK government to discuss the prospect of introducing animal protection laws to the President of China during it's visit to Beijing for the closing ceremony of the Olympics.

Foreword: Incredibly, we find ourselves once again accused of illegally transporting stray dogs from Greece to other EU countries, this time by the Ministry of Agriculture itself. Initially, the shock at reading the press release below (translated into