Many of you are already aware that there are groups associated with animal research who pose as Rescue and/or Transport Groups periodically with the full intent of stealing the animals in transport and delivering and/or selling them for animal

Tammy Hanson was sentenced in Arkansas' Baxter County District Court on November 4, 2009 for 20 misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals. The judge imposed a 1-year sentence in the county jail and $10,000 in fines. So who is Tammy Hanson and what

The Los Angeles City Council today, in a preliminary action, voted unanimously to ban cat de-clawing, the Los Angeles Times reports. The council is scheduled to take a final vote on the measure on November 17, Similarly, on Thursday evening, the

The Ojai Wildlife League is criticizing Fish and Game officials for euthanizing a wild bear last month, as the head game warden defends his role in killing the 400-pound animal .

Trialogue meeting to consider steps to end the capture of wild monkeys by dealers Over the next few days the European Commission, European Parliament and Council of Ministers are holding trialogue discussions on new rules for animal experimentation

A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The tallest animals on earth are here, the guide says, somewhere amid the scant green bush on one

More than 199 countries and overseas territories have reported lab-confirmed cases of A(H1N1) influenza as of November 1, resulting in more than 6000 deaths, according to figures released Friday by the World Health Organization (WHO). "As many

What do Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Charlotte Bronte, Leonardo Da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton all have in common? You guessed it! (Or perhaps you didn't...) They were all vegetarians! As far back as the 6th century BC the

Last week's NY Times featured an op-ed entitled "The Carnivore's Dilemma"--an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as a way to significantly reduce one's emission of greenhouse gasses (not least amongst

At the beginning of the 20th century, 2 million mustangs roamed free.[1] Today, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar tells reporters, "We have a huge problem -- out-of-control populations of wild horses and burros on our public lands."[2] But the reporters