"This is going to be a bigger black eye. These illegal slaughter farms have been running for north of 20 to 30 years without anyone doing anything about it,'' said Couto, who left the SPCA to form his own group, Animal Recovery Mission. For 20 years,

After reindeer plunge into a frozen river Sweden debates what to do with their bodies. The reindeer walked in a line like a string of pearls. But then something spooked the lead reindeer, and the trek went horribly wrong.

After 20 hours of confinement in a poorly ventilated truck moving across Siberia, eight tigers and a lion succumbed to suffocation and died Monday. Photos of the dead tigers show them in a massive pile, one on top of another.

The UK's favourite winter bird, the robin, faces being illegally killed in its thousands this Christmas, conservationists warned yesterday. Many of the birds escape the freezing cold to spend the winter on Cyprus. But once there, hundreds of

Vet bill of $3,000 doesn't dim joy for owner of missing Florida feline

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In early spring, when the seal pups start molting their white coats, thousands of Canadian fishermen, proceed to club, shoot, and skin hundreds of thousands of seals in front of their panic-stricken mothers who are helpless to defend their young,

Dutch police have shot dead four reindeer that escaped from a Christmas sleigh display, fearing they might run into traffic and cause accidents. Police spokesman Dirk Neef in the northern Dutch province of Drenthe says animal experts attempted capturing

"Protecting threatened species is vitally important to developing a different relationship with our planet", said HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco at a recent event in Washington DC, United States. "Humanity needs to adopt a more humble attitude ...

A coalition of conservation and animal rescue groups has today made animal welfare history by taking the last dancing bears off the streets of India - bringing an end to a centuries-old tradition that inflicted terrible cruelty on thousands of highly end