Japan's so-called scientific whaling program is again expected to be the focus of the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) that starts today in Portugal.

The 'business' of saving seals is just that, business. Whether $7 is paid for a seal skin or $10 is charged to view seals in the wild or $25 is donated regularly to campaign against cruel seal hunts or $100 is donated to rescue seals or $500 is paid to ad

Natascha Kampusch made headlines around the world when she was finally able to escape her kidnapper after being held for eight years in a dungeon in Austria. "I suffered from claustrophobia and I thought I was going crazy in there," Kampusch told Austria

On May 18, 2009, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega (D-American Samoa) introduced the International Whale Conservation and Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 2455) in the United States House of Representatives. The bill is designed to promote international

...1960s, Richard OBarry was the worlds leading authority on dolphin training, working on the set of the popular television program Flipper. Day in and day out, OBarry kept the dolphins working and television audiences smiling. But one day, that all...

The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has stripped the Toronto Humane Society of its affiliate status, a move that will immediately prohibit the embattled organization from conducting cruelty investigations

Members of Parliament from all parties voted unanimously Wednesday in favour of a Bloc Quebecois motion calling on the government to come up with a way to integrate seal pelts into the athletes' uniforms.

The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to ban seal product imports, ending a long battle to shut off a key market for Canada's sealing industry.The Canadian government has already threatened to challenge the legislation, expected to take eff

Canada's species at highest risk - caribou, spotted owls and the freshwater kidneyshell mussel - remain under threat because the federal government is failing to use its own laws to protect them, says a coalition of environmental groups.

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