Celebrities, MPs, NGOs and No 10’s Larry the cat unite urging Boris Johnson to come good on his animal welfare pledge.
… Larry the cat demands #BetterDealForAnimals Staff … Celebrities, MPs, NGOs and No 10’s Larry the cat unite urging Boris Johnson to come good on … organisations and Number 10’s Larry the Cat have joined forces to call on the Prime …
Consuming endangered wildlife is illegal in China, but it continues on a large scale in the country’s south. Walter Parham reports on a habit that locals just cannot kick – even after the SARS crisis.
… wildlife would have decreased as levels of education and urban incomes have risen in the … a result of public fears about the risks of catching Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome … animals. In late 2004, the demand for civet cats decreased so much due to the fear of SARS …
Star Wars' actress ‘Princess Leia' Carrie Fisher joined animal-loving celebrities & MP's to present a petition created by Humane Society International (HIS) and featuring almost 12 million signatures to The Chinese Embassy in London, requesting an end to the gruesome annual Yulin dog & cat eating festival in China.
… an end to the gruesome annual Yulin dog & cat eating festival in China. Carrie was … almost matches the amount of dogs and cats killed annually every June, when millions … bikes and trucks carrying crushed dogs and cats in order to liberate the victims. Hope …
Major landowners - responsible for 700km2 of potential Eurasian lynx habitat in the Kielder Forest region - have approved access for lynx during the planned Lynx UK Trust trial reintroduction of the apex predator. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
… of potential habitat for the medium-sized cats have now approved access. Michael Gove, … to consider the Lynx UK Trust licence application for a trial reintroduction of Eurasian … as the Scottish Highlands. Team effort Advocates expect the lynx would bring a range of …
Animal welfare investigators expose horrific conditions at farm approved by Red Tractor, including rotting corpses and workers abusing animals.
… Undercover footage of animal abuse Catherine Early | 2nd September 2020 | News … the reputation of the Red Tractor certification scheme, its chief executive has … lack of care for sick or dying animals, feral cats feeding on weak and dead piglets and …
Animal testing in British laboratories is down – now the government must target zero.
… itself agree are sentient - dogs and mice, cats, horses and monkeys among them - who did … 15 percent drop. At face value this might indicate that the number of animal experiments, … has risen on dogs (three percent), cats (11 percent), rabbits (11 percent) and …
The problem with vivisection, argues Derrick Jensen, is that we’re experimenting on the wrong sort of animals.
… minister for innovation and science, advocate of genetic engineering and owner of a … or rather his existence: add another category of those eligible to be vivisected. … The use of vivisectors’ families should eradicate the technical and moral problems caused …
From chasing endangered parrots to hunting for the environmental holy grail with Friends of the Earth, one of Britain's pre-eminent eco campaigners wants to take his quest for a better, greener world to the halls of Westminster.
Dixe Wills meets a man on a mission
… springer spaniel and black-and-white cat. Hens scratch contentedly around a coop at … resource consumption, and levels of crime, education and longevity—with an attempt to make …
The first blows may be struck on Canadian ice, but it's at the checkout that the coup de grace is delivered. Andrew Wasley explores the UK companies profiting from the trade in seal fur
… 50 and 80 per cent of the Canadian seal catch – approximately 150,000 and 200,000 … that it was willing to supply Chinese cat and dog skins to clients, but using strict … millions of raccoons, coyotes, wolves, bobcats, opossums, nutria, beavers, otters and …
Garments made of leather perpetuate animal cruelty and environmental destruction.
… all deforestation in the Amazon is linked to cattle ranching. More than a billion animals … exporter of leather, an estimated two million cats and dogs are killed each year for their … Fashion Week are banning leather from their catwalks, and Stella McCartney, Bruno Pieters, …
Animal charities are calling on the government to take action on cruel puppy trade, live farm animal exports, foie gras and fur imports, farm subsidies and severe animal experiments to ensure UK can maintain its ambition of being as pioneer for animals as Britain exits EU. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
… existing fur trade bans: Only the sale of cat, dog and seal fur is banned in the EU, … saw free-range sales soar and should be replicated into other areas to aid consumer choice. … 7. Work with UK fisheries to promote humane catches: Encouraging the UK fishing fleet to …
MPs, medical professionals and scientists unite in demanding a thorough evaluation of the utility of vivisection. By Kathy Archibald, Science Director of Europeans for Medical Progress
… it as the ‘single greatest drug-safety catastrophe in the history of the world’. • … primates, and in other such varied species as cats, armadillos, guinea pigs, swine and …
Does the fight for social justice include animal liberation? Municipalist organizing can build a transformative future for all creatures.
… animals seriously; we must stop automatically categorising their needs as less important … first: The overambition of animal advocates, Staudenmaier argues, is their aim of … the well-being of … individuals.” Animal advocates’ focus on sentience can obscure the …
From Catalonia in the South, through the Ariège and Béarn, to the Basque country in the North, both locals and tourists are used to seeing Nationalist slogans daubed in white paint on Pyrenean mountain roads. But now a new clarion call is vying for their attention: Non Ours (no bears) and Mort aux Ours (death to the bears.)
… And Economics Society investigates.jpg From Catalonia in the South, through the Ariège and … 1999, more than two million people have relocated to the countryside, but most are city … that badgers are spreading tuberculosis among cattle and destroying the industry. This in …