Animal Protection

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The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that draft guidelines for regulating breeding and transportation of poultry birds have been framed by a government-appointed committee after consulting all stakeholders. The submission was made before a bench of Chief…

Animal protection experts at Humane Society International/Africa and Zimbabwe animal groups on Thursday expressed their outrage and heartbreak at the news that more than 30 wild-caught baby elephants held captive for nearly a year in Hwange National Park, hav…

Animal cruelty is on its way to becoming a felony crime in the US. The House of Representatives unanimously passed the PACT Act which stands for Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture on Oct. 21. Proposed by Florida congressmen Ted Deutch and Vern Buchanan, th…

Millions of animal lovers every year are led to believe that dolphin shows, and experiences sold by some of the world's largest travel companies are cruelty-free, educational, and beneficial for conservation efforts. This could not be further from the truth. …

A woman is facing a string of serious animal cruelty charges after allegedly stabbing her pet cat repeatedly and throwing its lifeless body from a two-storey balcony. Police were called to a unit on Mooramba Road in Dee Why on Sydney's northern beaches at 8…

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to make acts of animal cruelty a federal crime. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act was unanimously passed Tuesday, expanding a prior law that criminalized the creation and distribution of "obs…

A woman faces four charges under the Animal Protection Act after 16 dogs were seized from a home in Swan Hills this month. Two of the dogs later died, the Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said in a news release Wednesday. Sixteen dog…

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India is the world’s largest milk producing nation and this year the country is expected to produce 175 billion litres of milk, nearly twice what the US, the second biggest milk-producing nation, is expected to produce.  According to the data from the 20th L…