UC Berkeley researchers’ cruelty and neglect resulted in deaths of 22 lab animals
NANETTE ASIMOV: 'Cruelty and neglect by UC Berkeley animal researchers led to the deaths of 22 animals from starvation, suffocation or botched…
Shocking footage of elephants being stunned and abused for TV programmes emerges
RACHEL McDERMOTT: 'Shocking footage has emerged of elephants being beaten and shocked with stun guns to make them perform for shows including US…
Are zookeepers playing God?
BRIT McCANDLESS FARMER: 'Gone are the days of taking animals out of the wild; most zoos rarely do that anymore. Instead, zoos today engineer animal…
Fido Survived The Research Lab. Now What?
MICHAEL OLLOVE: 'Every day, in labs across the United States, researchers experiment on thousands of cats and dogs. They test new surgical…
Learning to respect wild animals again
DW: 'In the 1969 movie Kes, a young English teenager called Billy Casper learns the craft of falconry so he can train a wild kestrel. In one scene,…
Why human rights groups are beginning to support the rights of non-human animals
JAY SHOOSTER: 'I’ve worked with many human rights organizations and admire their goals, but I’ve also felt a profound sense of despair, loneliness,…
What Would a Mother “Food” Cow Tell Us About Her Children?
MARC BEKOFF: 'Cows are typically recognized for their ubiquity as various sorts of products, whose value is cashed out in terms of their…
We Need to Change the ‘Empty Laws’ that Currently Protect Lab Animals
ANGELA HORN: 'Although World Week for Animals in Laboratories has drawn to a close, we need to remember that for the research animals still behind…
What is the true cost of eating meat?
BIBI VAN DER ZEE: 'Food and farming is one of the biggest economic sectors in the world... In 2016, the world’s meat production was estimated at…
Six elephants die after eating plastic dumped at Sri Lanka rubbish landfill
ANNA VERDON: 'Rubbish from nearby areas is taken to the dump in Deegawapi but has since attracted numerous wild animals - including birds, dogs and…