Recently released reports and testimonies are listed below. Our congressional requesters may hold reports up to 30 days before making them publicly available, so some may have earlier issue dates. Go to the Reports & Testimonies

Auckland may have banned it, but rodeo is still riding high in Christchurch where an international event is spurring animal rights activists into action. Lobby group Save Animals From Exploitation (SAFE) is promising protest action ahead of the Interna

The rotting carcass of a 15-ton whale that washed up on a popular tourist beach near George will be cut up on Tuesday and transported to the George rubbish dump, where it will be buried. George's Fire and Disaster Management chief, Barend Nelson, said

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's government is unlikely to send ships to monitor Japanese whaling in the Antarctic this season, lawmakers said Tuesday, after clashes with activists last year led to a diplomatic protest from Tokyo. Canberra last year se

It's as close to the lion lying down with the lamb as you are likely to see - exceot the lamb is a full-grown sheep and its snoozing partner is a baby elephant. The unlikely bond between Themba the elephant and Albert the sheep has taken nature reserve w

Goma - East Congo's conflict has put more than a quarter of the world's last mountain gorillas at the mercy of armed groups who hunt and camp in their territory, park officials said on Monday. With no rangers left to protect or care for them, the gori

OTTAWA -- An independent Canadian advisory panel will meet later this month to assess the status of one of the ocean's top predators: the killer whale. But whale experts suggest the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, known as COSE

CHANDRAPUR: Finally, the Principal Conservator of Forests (PCCF) has ordered to shoot down the man-eater leopard of Vejgaon, it is reported. The order to shoot down the leopard was received by fax by the Office of Conservator of Forests, South Chanda Fore

A MELBOURNE schoolgirl is undergoing surgery today after being bitten on the hand by a panda during a three-week school trip to China. Georgia Treu, 15, was with her classmates at the Wild Endangered Animal Protection Institute, near Xian in central Ch

A CANE toad has been discovered in Karratha after hitching a ride on plants delivered to a garden centre from Darwin. The adult cane toad was discovered over the weekend by nursery owners who captured the poisonous pest near a pond. The centre aler