Police have arrested a teenager who is accused of trying to set a kitten on fire in Chester on Saturday. The 6-week-old kitten, nicknamed Cuddles by the animal-control officer who rescued it, died Monday. Rishawn Levintino Morrison, 19, of the

Animals matter to billions of people around the world. They matter to people like you. Yet, all over the world, animals are suffering. You can help them, with a simple declaration. A Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare at the United Nations, and

Every year in the heart of the European Union during November, the inhabitants of the Faroe Islands go to sea to teach their sons to kill. The objective of this millennium tradition, aimed to make men out of boys, is to kill as many Dolphins as

Animal cruelty is escalating across the country. Like many other States-as animal cruelty is not taken seriously and treated like a misdemeanor-it appears Pennsylvania citizens has a new hobby: Torturing pets to death. However, due to lax animal cruelty

The Restore Our American Mustangs (ROAM) Act (S. 1579), recently introduced by Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) will restore protections for our country's wild horses and burros that were stripped away in recent years. Not only will the ROAM Act

After a gun battle in Charara National park near Sanyati Gorge, park rangers shot and killed an elephant poacher, arrested three accomplices - and recovered an AK-47 rifle

Please tell Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that protecting wolves and other wildlife by closing the Sheep Experiment Station should be an option -- and the preferred option -- in the environmental impact statement that his department is preparing

The US government did such a fine job that the Gray Wolf is no longer listed as 'endangered'. Great! Now, by law, control of these animals is handed over to the states, notably Idaho and Montana, and their first response is, "let's hunt them".

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has vowed to "vigorously defend" the Canadian sealing industry from the effects of a sweeping European ban on seal products that could come into effect by the fall.

Today Parliament has significantly weakened the already inadequate proposals of the European Commission to revise the 23 year old law. MEPs forgot what for the directive was written.