Either she likes it or I'm dead. I'm crouched next to a magnificent Indo-Chinese tiger at the Wat Pa Luangta Bua Yannasampanno Forest Monastery in Thailand. Try saying that three times quickly; not surprisingly, it's better known as the "Tiger Temple".

.....current methods involve the handling of too many animals -- injuring and even killing some and leaving others with chemical residue that taints their meat.

AN anti-whaling ship has been named after the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin as it sets off to intercept Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been given permission to use Irwin's name by his widow Terri

Activists leave Australia to track down Japan's whaling fleet

New forestry figures issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry confirm that the rate of deforestation is increasing and new planting and replanting is steadily declining.

No one wants to talk about it. Japan is a corrupt nation where the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, has very powerful friends in Government and influence which extends way beyond the borders of Japan.

Animal rights group says the Government should take action against whalers, not Sea Shepherd. A Wellington animal rights group says Chris Carter should resign as Minister for the Environment if he is unwilling to take action against whaling ships.

Civil rights groups filed a suit with German prosecutors on Tuesday seeking war crimes charges against outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for the alleged abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons.

THE outgoing US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, faces the threat of a lawsuit in the German courts accusing him of involvement in prisoner abuses at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq.

UP TO 40 new species of plants and animals, including a bird and a tree rat, have been discovered in an expedition to one of the world's last unspoilt wildernesses. Scientists risked their lives with 3 almost being eaten in their exploration.