Animal Protection

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…

A baby dolphin died 'mid-performance' at a Bulgarian water park after allegedly being 'overworked'. The animal was only nine days old when it died in front of a packed audience at the Varna Dolphinarium, local media reports. Spectators were hurriedly rushed…

Geneva — This momentous decision will save countless elephants from being snatched from their families and natural environment, says Humane Society International at CITES CoP18 in Geneva Wildlife experts from animal protection charity Humane Society Internat…

After two weeks of wrangling over everything from African elephants to tiny glass frogs, from cute otters to tasty sharks, CITES has ended with divisions over how to protect endangered species as entrenched as ever. Read more: Killing endangered species to s…