Animal Protection

The hurricane with no name threshed across the Atlantic coast in mid-September 1713, ripping at tobacco crops and sending panicked colonists inland, where the storm's destructive power found them. "Ships were drove from their anchors far within land, partic…

A new initiative, the Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School will launch during the 20192020 academic year as an interdisciplinary think and do tank. The program is dedicated to developing new strategies to address industrialized animal c…

The hurricane with no name threshed across the Atlantic coast in mid-September 1713, ripping at tobacco crops and sending panicked colonists inland, where the storm's destructive power found them. "Ships were drove from their anchors far within land, particul…

Denmark is buying four circus elephants with the intent of retiring them.  The country is spending 11 million Kroner, the equivalent of $1.6 million, to buy the last four circus elephants in the country to retire as the nation looks to ban wild animals in ci…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) Denmark is spending 11 million kroner ($1.6 million) to buy the country’s last four circus elephants to give them a proper retirement as the government moves to ban wild animals in circuses. Food and Fisheries Minister Mogens Jensen …

COPENHAGEN - Denmark is spending 11 million kroner ($1.6 million) to buy the countrys last four circus elephants to give them a proper retirement as the government moves to ban wild animals in circuses. Food and Fisheries Minister Mogens Jensen says a ban on…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) Denmark is spending 11 million kroner ($1.6 million) to buy the country's last four circus elephants to give them a proper retirement as the government moves to ban wild animals in circuses. Food and Fisheries Minister Mogens Jensen …

The shopkeeper quickly scanned the traditional Chinese medicine market, looking for undercover police before she unlocked a desk drawer and dug out what looked like a clam shell, palm-sized and coffee-brown. It cures cancer, she said. The contraband was a s…

Danilo Zoschnik was just 16-years-old in the last state election in Brandenburg when he cast his vote for the Greens. Now five years later, at the age of 21, hes one of the youngest candidates standing for the Green party in the former East Germany state tha…

For centuries, animals have been whipped, beaten and trained into submission all for the sake of human entertainment.  But humans have been steadily growing more and more greedy and heartless. So much so that these innocent creatures are paying for it with t…