BANNED IN BRITAIN: Elephants in zoos or safari parks will be banned, suffer from mental illness in captivity
HELENA HORTON: Keeping elephants in zoos or safari parks is to be banned... Legislation will prohibit importation of any new animals and the…
Cinéma Vérité: How a captive whale documentary ended SeaWorld’s Orca breeding program
LAURA THOMAS-WALTERS: After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013, the documentary Blackfish reached nearly 21 million viewers…
BITE BACK: Animals are ‘mad as hell’ as humans continue to transgress nature’s boundaries
AFP: The pandemic and climate change is testing as never before the delicate balance of human co-habitation with the natural world... Pandemic…
FACING THE HORROR: The promise and perils of using facial recognition technology on animals
LAURA BRIDGEMAN: Facial recognition technology is rapidly becoming ubiquitous, used in everything from security cameras to smartphones. But in the…
FATAL EXTRACTION: Animal rights group urges government to replace newborn calf serum in Covid-19 vaccine production
IANS: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India... has requested the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to replace Newborn Calf…
A BIRD’S NO-BRAINER: Crows understand the ‘concept of zero’
NICOLETTA LANESE: The concept of zero, as used in a number system, fully developed in human society around the fifth century A.D., or potentially a…
VIA DOLOROSA: Law, not science, impedes shift away from cruel and deadly animal testing
GARY MARCHANT: For decades, manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, pesticides and other commercial chemicals have dutifully tested their…
TO FREEDOM BORN: Pregnant pig that escaped factory farm to give birth is ‘not out of the woods’
CAROLINE LOWBRIDGE: Anna Aston, the dog walker who found Matilda, said she was confused when she first came across the pigs in the woods... "I knew…
HUMAN PESTILENCE: Mice should be sent to scratch the faces of animal activists’ children, says Australia’s PM
OLIVIA BURKE: Australia's acting Prime Minister has said the nation's mouse plague should be "rehomed" in the inner-city apartments of animal rights…
NO WAY HOME: China’s wandering elephant ‘herd show’. Not as lovable as it looks.
OIWAN LAM: Fifteen Asian elephants have become China's latest internet celebrities and the most successful ambassadors of the new “lovable” image…