The Netherlands wants to ban the controversial anti-whaling organisation Sea Shepherd from sailing under the Dutch flag. Public Works State Secretary Tineke Huizinga said Friday she wants to amend the law quickly to make this possible.

When IDA recently received this sickening video of a female elephant named Andra being beaten with a bullhook (ankus) at a circus in Greece, we immediately contacted the animal advocates who are working on this situation there.

When IDA recently received this sickening video of a female elephant named Andra being beaten with a bullhook (ankus) at a circus in Greece, we immediately contacted the animal advocates who are working on this situation there.

Jimmy Correa, 24, and Jenny Torres, 31, of New Bedford, MA, who it turns out are cousins, are now claiming that they never tossed Princess, a little chihuahua, from their vehicle and that it was all a big misunderstanding. And, they want the dog back!

The romantic imagery painted of Spanish bullfighting in Ernest Hemingway's famous book The Sun Also Rises might soon be the stuff of history. Spain is edging ever closer to banning the sport.

Update: Our appeal has been rejected, and Junichi and Toru have been ordered to spend a further 9 days in jail without charge. Under Japanese law, they can be held for up to 23 days without charge. More than 220,000 people have now used our global action

No one eats them -- not directly, anyhow. Hardly anyone has even heard of them except for those who fish or study our eastern and southern salt waters. Yet menhaden are the principal fish caught along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, exceeding the tonnage o

Secret snapshots of endangered animals roaming through Sumatran forest are proof that areas which the Indonesian government has deemed "worthless" to conservation are anything but, says the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in UK.Includes slide show.

He graphically described his methods and savored talk of the torture her beloved sheepdog would endure. It's not an unusual situation; most law enforcement and humane society officials hear stories like that on a daily basis.

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