Animal Protection

A supermarket is setting up a scheme to allow bull calves from its dairy farms to live to at least eight weeks old, instead of being shot soon after birth, as now. Morrisons said the move will support farmers by letting them sell their male calves to be rear…

Social media users are fuelling a growing appetite for acquiring wild otters and other endangered animals as pets, conservationists say, warning the trend could push species towards extinction. Popular Instagrammers posting selfies with their pet otter may s…

Social media users are fuelling a burgeoning appetite for acquiring wild otters and other endangered animals as pets, conservationists say, warning the trend could push species towards extinction. Popular Instagrammers posting selfies with their pet otter ma…

Image copyrightBisser Lyubenov/BTVImage caption Five baby dolphins and a sea lion have died here in the past five years The dolphinarium in the city of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast has found itself in hot water over the death of a baby dolphin. …

The regulator of global wildlife trade will likely ban sending African elephants captured from the wild to zoos after countries supported the move Sunday, in what conservationists hailed as a "historic win". A large majority of countries voted in Geneva to p…

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The regulator of global wildlife trade will likely ban sending African elephants captured from the wild to zoos after countries supported the move Sunday, in what conservationists hailed as a "historic win". A large majority of co…

Some supporters of the protest movement might have been saving their energy for Sunday, when organizers are hoping for a large turnout in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district. They had applied for a permit to march from the park to the Central district…

On the eastern fringe of Kolkata, the neighbourhood of Beliaghata is a ganglion of shadowy lanes. In the hovels that lattice these narrow alleys, where the most intimate chores of their inhabitants are laid bare and their daily lives spill on to the pavement,…

An animal rights group has shared shocking images of an old, emaciated elephant forced to take part in a Buddhist festival in Sri Lanka, sparking anger. The Thailand-based Save Elephant Foundation released several pictures of the 70-year-old femaleknown as T…

A 70-year-old elephant has been pictured looking shocking emaciated and underfed in Sri Lanka. Every rib can be seen on Tikiiri, who will work beside 60 elephants for the Perahera Festival despite her frail body. She will be forced to parade in a festival c…