Animal Protection

An animal-rights activist is urging people not to kill mosquitoes, but instead to let the insects bite them. Aymeric Caron, who is also a French TV presenter, says the insects suck human blood to obtain protein for their eggs and should not be swatted in th…

Disturbing photos reveal how elephants are beaten with bull hooks and tortured for 'entertainment' in Thailand - as Australian tourists are urged to 'stop riding' the animals Horrifying photos have emerged of injured 'entertainment' elephants as Australian t…

Two Ontario zoos are flouting global guidelines by offering visitors the chance to get up close and personal with wildlife, putting animals and guests at risk, says a report by an international advocacy group. World Animal Protection compared programs at zoo…

A 57-year-old Edmonton woman is facing animal cruelty charges in connection with an alleged puppy mill operating in the city's far northeast. Edmonton police and animal control officers seized 72 dogs from a rural property near 247th Avenue and 18th Street d…

Lion bones masquerade as tiger bones in China. Wikimedia commons A new report by global NGO, World Animal Protection, provides a damning indictment on the captive predator breeding industry. Big cats are being bred for the use of their bones in traditional Ch…

Diane Keaton just proudly added animal advocate to her artistic and stylish repertoire.  Judie Mancuso, who is one of the countrys leading animal advocates and the founder and President of Social Compassion In Legislation, or SCIL, welcomed the actress to th…

An animal rights group filed a lawsuit against a Jewish center in Los Angeles to prevent it from holding kapparot, a pre-Yom Kippur religious ritual. The lawsuit against the Woodland Hills Hebrew Discovery Center was filed earlier this month in Los Angeles S…

(Adds tiger census; paragraphs 12-14) By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI, July 29 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is teaming up with British TV adventurer Bear Grylls to venture into India's wilderness to raise awareness about protecting nature, t…

In 2015 in the state of Indiana, Animal Protection League started a wonderful program in Pendleton Correctional Facility called F.O.R.W.A.R.D. The idea behind this initiative is to take cats from a shelter and place them in the correctional facility so inmat…

Romania is going ahead with the controversial export of 70,000 live sheep to the Persian Gulf. That is despite Brussels urging them not to because “extreme temperatures would make it impossible to guarantee the animals would not suffer in transit". “We have…