Animal Protection

The UK has dropped a grade in the global assessment of countries’ records on animal welfare due to parliamentary delays caused by Brexit. The UK previously held an ‘A’ grade for animal welfare leadership, but has now dropped to a ‘B’ in the second revised edition of the Animal Protection Index (API).  The…

A cat with a crossbow bolt in its body was found outside the entrance to a woman’s home in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, police said, adding the person responsible faces a charge of violating the animal protection law. According to police, the woman found the cat at around 1 p.m. on Monday…

The United States is trailing behind other countries—including Mexico and India—when it comes to animal protection laws for farmed and wild animals, a report published by non-profit World Animal Protection (WAP) has revealed.In its latest Animal Protection Index (API)—a global ranking of animal welfare policies in 50 countries—the organization has…

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will modify the environmental supervision of companies to help the resumption of production disrupted by the coronavirus epidemic, giving firms more time to rectify environmental problems, but stressed it was not relaxing standards. FILE PHOTO: Smoke is seen from a chimney in Altay, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous…

The coronavirus epidemic prompted China to ban the unregulated trade of wildlife and the consumption of wild animals. Now the World Wildlife Fund (WWW) is calling on Southeast Asia -- a key hub of wildlife trafficking and source of contraband for Chinese customers -- to follow in China's footsteps. The…

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By sheree bega Mar 7, 2020A Miami, Florida bird breeder and his two South African counterparts have applied to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to import 4000 African grey parrots from SA, around half of them wild-caught, for a proposed co-operative breeding programme (CBP). The application by Paul…

240 cch24 on 07/03/2020 - 09:44 aaps.org.au (207 clicks)Last edited 07/03/2020 - 10:58 by 1 other user Reduced adoption fees! From Wednesday 4 March to Wednesday 11 March we are reducing all feline adoption fees to just $40. We need to find our kittens and cats the purrr-fect homes, so…

The Chinese province of Hubei has passed a law to ban the eating of wild animals completely, including those bred or raised by people.Experts believe that the country's deadly coronavirus outbreak, which started in Hubei, was caused by the practice.China's central government last month blocked all trade and consumption of…

In Kenya, there’s a spot on the banks of the Ewaso Ng’iro River where elephants like to congregate. Tall acacia trees provide shade for naps, and doum palms supply date-like fruits that the animals scarf up by the trunk-full. It was in this place that Victoria, a 55-year-old matriarch well-known…