HARARE (AFP) - An international crime syndicate is behind an escalation in poaching in Zimbabwe which has slaughtered 65 elephants and 30 rhinos this year, a wildlife official said Monday.

Environmentalists have called for a global ban on the trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna after the body responsible for managing stocks cut quotas but did not suspend fishing of the threatened species.

The dog, named Susie, was found by a man in Greenfield Park in Greensboro in August. She had burns on 60 percent of her body and was burned over the majority of her head. Her ears were almost completely burned off. Susie also had burns on her

Service dogs specifically trained to recognize dangerous allergic reactions can cost over $10,000. But Dominic Wiederin, 17, didn't even know he might need one when he rescued a malnourished, injured stray and begged his parents that he could keep it.

IT was a happy reunion when Brett Wright was reunited with his dog, George, after the pooch was found more than 220km from home four weeks after going missing. When George, a lhasa apso, did not return to the South Isis farm after playing

Marcie Fairhurst was getting ready to drive her son to school when she saw Molly, her four-year-old retriever-lab mix, running into a neighbor's yard. Next she heard a gunshot. When the mother of four ran to investigate she says she saw Molly lying on the

Officers discovered two eight-week-old kittens abandoned in a box outside Thornhill Road station in Handsworth last month. One was covered in glue and the other had severe spinal injuries thought to have been caused by someone kicking it.

Ryan Wolcott, 25, had also been charged for abandoning three other cats his girlfriend owned. One was a kitten, which he allegedly tortured by putting pepper spray in its eyes.

Lily, a grey long-haired cat, had been tied to the line by a length of cord which was knotted around her waist in Beccles, Suffolk. The animal was found on 6 November but, despite treatment for her injuries, the four-year-old cat was put to

According to Fox News, the video allegedly shows baby pigs being picked up by their ears and thrown to other employees, pregnant pigs being kept in "very small pens" and other abuses which were so disturbing that Fox News refused to show them.