Wildlife tourism: Holiday giants including TUI and TripAdvisor profiting from animal cruelty
JANE DALTON: 'Some of the world’s best known names in travel... are accused of profiting from animal cruelty by promoting attractions worldwide…
The killer scorpions and poisonous frogs being mailed to China to feed exotic pet craze
NEIL CONNOR: 'Exotic animals including ‘killer scorpions’ and poisonous frogs are being mailed into China alive in regular parcels to feed a boom in…
Why is there still no vegan revolution?: Against a local and relative morality
GRAMSHACKLE: 'Can vegans coexist with non-vegans? From a non-vegan perspective, the answer would obviously be yes. I’m here to argue, from the…
PETA sues USDA over roadside zoo licensing
CRAIG HLAVATY: 'An animal rights group has sued U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue over roadside zoo licensing across the country, including…
10 surprising facts about chimpanzees
NOEL KIRKPATRICK: 'Chimpanzees are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, genetically speaking. We share between 95 and 98 percent of DNA with…
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,…