Because lynx are listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act, it is illegal to capture, harm, harass or kill the reclusive wildcats. At least 47 lynx have been caught in traps in Maine over the past decade with the vast majority of the cats

Australia's prime minister threatened legal action against Japan on Friday if it does not stop its research whaling program that kills up to 1,000 whales a year.

A SERIOUSLY ill dog needing urgent veterinary treatment was dumped by a family on the doorstep of a Chatteris woman. Owners of the dog, a Rottweiler bitch, knocked on the door of Claire Lerigo's home and left her with the sick animal and

Three youths killed a two-day-old fawn in Dorset by stamping on it "for a laugh", a court has heard. Two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old caught the female baby deer as it waited for its mother in Upton Country Park, on 10 June.

One female dog's right ear had been nearly ripped in two, and both its ears were covered in what appeared to be dried blood. Nearby, a tawny-colored male dog staked out with a short heavy chain was so emaciated its ribs and vertebrae were showing.

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A kitten was found abandoned in a box at a local landfill while two other kittens attempted to swim to safety through raw sewage in Springfield, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said Thursday.

LIZA is one lucky dog. And so, it turns out, is her family. The ginger-coloured mutt stranded alone atop the bombed-out ruins of her Baghdad home has been reunited with her owners after a night spent chained to a railing, bringing a few smile

The Przewalski's horse of Mongolia's Gobi desert-considered the world's only remaining, "true" wild horse-has had its share of existential challenges over the centuries. Once considered "extinct in the wild", due primarily to habitat loss, the horse's