An undercover investigation has found that up to two gorillas are killed and sold as bushmeat each week in Kouilou, a region of the Republic of Congo.

We must stop the use of gas chambers to euthanize animals in overcrowded shelters. Every year, more than 3 million adoptable animals are euthanized in shelters for lack of shelter space and funding to care for them. This is distressing enough. Although

It has been 21 days since the USDA confiscated Jewel and Tina, but left Queenie (aka Boo) behind in Leggett, Texas in the hands of the incompetent Will Davenport, who has gravely endangered the health of all three elephants. With each day that passes,

The ASPCA says 22-year-old Donnell Walters, of Queens, grew so angry during a dispute with a friend in July that he attacked her 4 pound Yorkshire terrier. He is charged with repeatedly hurling the dog to the pavement, snapping one of its leg

In similar elephant-limb news, caretakers at the Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in England have created shoes for Gay, an Asian elephant who suffers from foot abscesses. After making sketches of Gay's foot, the caretakers sent patterns to a company in

The puppies had mud caked inside their ears, noses and mouths. They were covered in fleas and still had their umbilical cords attached. "I can't imagine the heart it takes to walk into the woods dig a hole and put live puppies in a hole and

The surviving litter mates of two 7-week-old puppies beaten to death with a sledgehammer romped, yipped and squirmed gleefully Friday at Glynn County Animal Services as an investigation continues in the case that has outraged animal welfare advocates.

Despite becoming part of a new herd, love and affection for their mother simply refuses to die, as two elephant calves, including a new born, have been visiting daily the place, where their mother was buried in a forest area in neighboring Virudhunagar

Dog meat eating was banned in Manila in 1982, and nationwide in 1998 via Republic Act No. 8485, known as the Animal Welfare Act with exemptions for dogs killed and eaten as part of indigenous rituals.

Animal rights activists have drawn up a plan to airlift more than 100 animals on the brink of starvation out of a zoo in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.