NO SHERIFF IN TOWN: Animal rights activists assaulted for confronting illegal cockfighting event
LIAM NEIMEYER: Members of an Illinois-based animal protection group say one of their members was assaulted and another was driven off the road…
PARTIDO ANIMALISTA: The rise of vegan and animal rights political parties in Spain and European Union
DIEGO TORRES: The green wave sweeping parts of Europe could take on a more radical form in Spain. Green parties have been gaining ground in…
THE ROAD TO PERDITION: What We’ve Lost – Animal Species Declared Extinct in 2020
JOHN R. PLATT: A few months ago a group of scientists warned about the rise of “extinction denial,” an effort much like climate denial to…
EDITED FOR YOUR PLEASURE: Britain’s new gene-editing plan ‘dark day’ for animals, would cause real suffering
JANE DALTON: Gene-editing will be bad for animal welfare and bad for efforts to curb greenhouse gases, organic farmers and environmental experts…
MURDER BY ANY OTHER NAME: Fishermen kill whale trapped in Japan’s infamous cove by forcing head underwater
SAM HANCOCK: A juvenile minke whale has been killed by fishermen off the coast of Taiji, a town in Japan notorious for its annual dolphin cull, 19…
THE TORTURE CHAMBERS: Islamabad’s zoo closes, but its empty cages hold clues to animals’ suffering
PAMELA CONSTABLE: Like an abandoned prison or asylum, the overgrown grounds of the now-shuttered Marghazar Zoo in Pakistan are filled with ghosts,…
IT’S A MAD, MAD WORLD: Sales of ‘pet’ face masks spiked 500% during COVID-19 pandemic
GRACE DEAN: A company selling face masks for pets has reported booming sales for 2020 - but top vets told Insider you shouldn't put a mask on your…
FUR-COVER UP: ‘Independent Standards Press Organisation’ says story linking animal cruelty to British fur industry was ‘misleading’
CAMILLA TOMINEY: The Independent Press Standards Organisation ruled there was "no evidence" to back up the story linking a Chinese farm to UK…
DE-LIVER THEM FROM EVIL: France planning mass slaughter of ducks, as bird flu hits ‘foie gras’ farming industry
AFP: French producers of foie gras have called for a mass preventive cull of ducks to try to halt the spread of a severe strain of bird flu that is…
‘SLOWLY STARVING TO DEATH’: Whale trapped in nets in Japan for two weeks, evil authorities will not rescue
JUSTIN MCCURRY: Animal rights campaigners have demanded the immediate release of a minke whale that has been trapped for more than two weeks in nets…