A MAN has allegedly shot a horse with a crossbow then kicked it to the ground before using his mobile phone to film it dying on a property in Western Australia's Goldfields. A 30-year-old man from Norseman, about 190km south of Kalgoorlie, allegedly

'Miracle', an escaped Asiatic bear is in danger of being returned to the brutal bile farm from which she came-for those who do not know what a bear bile farm is, it's a place where bears are slaughtered for their gallbladders and kept in tiny 'crush'

It will likely take heightened international exposure of the U.S. BMP trap-testing program for the world to see it for the sham it is. Global pressure will be needed to compel the E.U. to re-think its weak trapping agreement with the U.S. and ultimately

Not long ago, at around 2:00 PM an image struck the neighbors of Ezeiza (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Benet ran desperately, covered in flames, between the houses. The agonizing scream and cry of Benet caught the attention and compassion of everyone.

After widespread hunting of both the cheetah and its prey, along with the converting of grassland habitat to farmland, caused the big cat to disappear from India nearly a century ago, the world's fastest land animal may once again start zipping around

Wolf Awareness Week is a time to recognize the importance of wolves as an integral part of our natural landscapes and to engage others to become interested and active in wolf survival.

Rarest of all sea creatures seen in the wild today, once upon a time the seahorse was found in every ocean of the world from 20 feet to 100 feet (area now most frequented by man). Sea dragons and Seahorses are protected globally by CITES (Convention on

A comprehensive survey to gather genetic data about the last Javan rhino population in Vietnam kicks off in November 2009.

The Animal Welfare Institute and the Wildlife Alliance of Maine today filed a preliminary injunction in Federal District Court in Bangor, seeking to stop Maine's early coyote and fox-trapping season, which opens Sunday.

Just 50 years ago there were close to a half-million lions in Africa -- about 450,000 in all. Today there are between 16,000 and 23,000. And yet, unlike elephants (a far more numerous species), lions have no protection under the international accord