Before leaving office,the Bush Administration snuck through midnight regulations that would weaken the Endangered Species Act.The regulations make it harder to protect polar bears,gray wolves,canadian lynx,pacific salmon and thousands of other endangered

There is a 15 yr old boy in Massachusetts that wants the legislature of the state to make it illegal to remove the vocal cords of dogs and cats. I would like to help him by starting this petition and getting at least 10,000 signatures and sending it to

Here is another example of a young Australian getting away lightly with animal torture. What message does this give to young Australians? What about introducing tougher penalties to perpetrators for their cruelty to animals? This will be a better deterent

The global trade in frog legs for human consumption is threatening their extinction, according to a new study by an international team including University of Adelaide researchers.The researchers say the global pattern of harvesting and decline of wild>>

The Bush administration on Wednesday announced plans to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes and northern Rocky Mountains regions from the federal endangered species list.But wolves in Wyoming will remain under federal jurisdiction because that >

Birders with binoculars and cameras are flocking to a remote state park in search of a small yellow-chested bird that apparently crossed the U.S. border for the first time from its high-mountain habitat to the south.At 5 in. with beige and yellow markings

A federal agency proposed nearly 6,000 sq miles of southwest Alaska shoreline be protected habitat for a threatened population of northern sea otters.About 90% of northern sea otters live in coastal Alaska,and the Aleutians population was declared threate

An extinction crisis continues to ravage the planet's animals and plants, according to the new Red List of Threatened Species released today. The elevated threat level has even sparked a Dow Jones-like index of endangered species, designed to spot trouble

Among the animals confiscated were 434 canary-winged parakeets, seven yellow-footed tortoises, four monkeys, a blue-and-yellow macaw, 17 black-headed parrots, four red-fronted parrots, five white-eyed parakeets, four grey-cheeked parakeets and a green par

WARSAW (AFP) - Polish border guards said Wednesday they had foiled an attempt to smuggle kangaroos, miniature ponies and 11 pheasants in a passenger bus across Poland's border with Ukraine.