animal welfare

An elephant named Happy is pictured in the Bronx Zoo, in New York City, New York, U.S.

Should Happy the elephant have the same legal rights as a human?

Outdoor cats are facing a lockdown from April to August for the next three years in Walldorf.

Germans ordered to lockdown their cats or face €50,000 fine - but why?

Dozens of animals are forced to entertain in the two tourist resorts

Endangered animals entertain tourists on 'torture island' in Vietnam

A Frankenchicken unable to use her legs.

Frankenchickens: How supermarkets ‘profit off nightmarish cruelty'

Chimps on this Liberian island were left here to die

These abandoned apes have a dark story to tell about US animal testing

Baby lambs

This animal sanctuary is saving baby lambs from the Easter table

14/04/2022

This picture taken on March 22, 2022, shows a Hippopotamus at the Mykolaiv zoo, southern Ukraine.

4,000 animals are caught in the crossfire at Ukraine’s biggest zoo

27/03/2022

Lolita the killer whale

Orca kept in world's smallest tank may finally be freed after 50 years

22/03/2022

One of the tigers looking out from the train carriage it has been trapped for 15 years.

Tigers forced to live in train carriage for 15 years are finally free

18/03/2022

Octopuses are smart, inquisitive animals - they would suffer terribly from being farmed.

Europe will soon be home to the world's first octopus farm

24/02/2022

Rangers put a captured and sedated Sumatran tiger in a cage in Lurah Ingu Village, Indonesia.

‘A freezer full of cubs’: The truth behind shocking tiger exploitation

02/02/2022

A burrowing owl stands on a log

Scientists are using poo to save these adorable, pocket-sized owls

28/01/2022

Annual count

How do you count an ant colony?: London Zoo takes stock of its animals

08/01/2022

Parakeet

Animal shelter receives more than 800 parakeets at Christmas

28/12/2021

52-year-old Gandhi is the first resident of the sanctuary in France.

France opens Europe's first retirement home for elephants

25/11/2021

Octopuses are set to have their feelings protected under UK law.

Why octopuses have feelings and crabs should not be ‘boiled alive’

23/11/2021

Beagle

Is tobacco still being tested on puppies?

18/11/2021

Donkeys help locals clean the streets of the ancient Turkish city of Mardin

Street-cleaning donkeys in Turkey listen to Beethoven while they work

16/11/2021

Lord of the plants: Irish baron 'rewilds' estate in the name of environmentalism

Irish baron turns estate he inherited into wildlife oasis

17/10/2021

Why riding an elephant on holiday is unethical and cruel

Conscious Travel

Why you should never ride an elephant on holiday

27/09/2021