Animal Protection

Pet owners in Japan will be aske to microchip their pets in a bid to reduce the number of strays. (Kyodo photo) TOKYO: The Japanese parliament on Wednesday passed a bill requiring dog and cat breeders to microchip animals and owners to voluntarily do the sam…

File photo: African News Agency (ANA) Archives Cape Town A police officer is under investigation for animal cruelty after allegedly shooting a Scottsdene familys dog at point-blank range. The Cape of Good Hope SPCA is assisting the family in lodging a compl…

Pupils in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, visit the China Cybersecurity Week exhibition on September 20. Photo: Cao Siqi/GT A cyber police force in Southwest China's Sichuan Province listed fighting extremism as its foremost mission to purify cyberspa…

On Monday, the Canadian parliament approved a draft bill banning the breeding and captivity of cetaceans including whales and dolphins, a decision which has been applauded by animal rights activists.  The draft bill, which was drawn up in 2015 and still requ…

OTTAWA — A federal bill banning the keeping of whales and dolphins in captivity jumped its last parliamentary hoop, and will become Canadian law by the end of June. Bill S-203, the so-called “Free Willy” bill, was passed by the House of Commons at third read…

Whales and dolphins can no longer be bred or kept in captivity under new legislation that was passed in the House of Commons Monday. The legislation, dubbed the Free Willy bill by its proponents, marks a new era in animal-rights law. For the first time, Cana…

I was giving a talk at a conference in Oklahoma about the public health dangers of industrial animal farming, or factory farming as it is commonly called. Each year, more than 64 billion animals are raised and killed for food globally. In the United States al…

Charlie the cat A 1-year-old cat was stoned to death in an east Denver neighborhood Thursday night or Friday morning and investigators are asking anyone with information to come forward. A person who lives in the East Colfax neighborhood found the cat’s bod…

As shareholders and retail business leaders began to arrive they had an opportunity to view and experience the cruel confinement of mother pigs with a human-size gestation crate. Additionally, World Animal Protection staff explained how failing to institute a…

A British animal protection group is looking for a woman accused of straddling a swan and strangling it to death in a public park. The Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals is investigating the strange death after witness testimony claims a …