Sci-Tech

Spotted quoll latest exotic Australian animal facing threat of extinction

Australia is struggling to preserve its unique flora and fauna, with the spotted quoll the latest species to come into the spotlight as it fights for survival.

23/02/2017

New Zealand

New Zealand: Race to save pilot whales in massive stranding

Rescuers have been racing to save scores of pilot whales in New Zealand’s Golden Bay.

10/02/2017

China

Anger after rat is strung up by its limbs

Images of a rat being strung-up by its limbs in China have been condemned as ‘heartbreaking’ by animal rights campaigners.

26/01/2017

Colombia

Bullfighting brought back to Bogota, awakening age-old arguments

Bullfighting has returned to the Colombian capital, reawakening an age-old argument.

23/01/2017

No Comment

Japan: force-fed fish furore

A good-luck ritual in Japan where fish are force-fed alcohol has prompted an outcry on social media.

19/01/2017

USA

The end of an era for "The greatest show on earth"

The Ringling Bros.

15/01/2017

Business Series

Animal rights group buys LVMH shares to pressure it over skins

Peta has become a shareholder of French luxury goods maker LVMH so that it can pressure it to stop selling merchandise made from exotic skins.

13/01/2017

Russia

Putin's barking dog take centre stage at media interview

Yume, who was not on a leash, entered the room quietly but she soon began barking loudly at the media crew

15/12/2016

Japan

Japanese skating rink causes uproar by freezing 5,000 dead fish in ice

28/11/2016

World News

Trooper survives after home alone cats eat one another

A woman in Australia has been convicted of cruelty to animals after she abandoned 14 cats in her home in South Adelaide, Australia.

23/11/2016

Spain

Bull set on fire during Spanish Toro Júbilo festival

Video released by PACMA, a Spanish political party focusing on animal rights, shows a bull being set alight at a festival in the Spanish town of Medinaceli.

17/11/2016

China

Video: Meet Pizza the world's 'saddest polar bear'

28/10/2016

World News

No sanctuary, but some solace for anti-whaling nations

Critics believe Japan's "scientific whaling" is pseudo science.

28/10/2016

World News

Penguin paradise - world's largest marine park agreed for Antarctica

24 countries and the EU agree the 1.55 million square kilometre Ross Sea marine park will be protected from commercial fishing for three to five years.

28/10/2016

Sci-Tech

Brazil opens the first elephant sanctuary in Latin America

Maia and Guida are the first guests at the elephant sanctuary

28/10/2016

World News

World wildlife numbers 'to drop by 67% in 50 years', new report finds

The world is on course for the first mass extinction of animal life since the dinosaurs, according to a new report on wildlife populations

27/10/2016

World News

World wildlife population drops almost two-thirds in 40 years

Global wildlife populations have fallen a staggering 58 percent between 1970 and 2012, according to a report by the WWF and the Zoological Society.

27/10/2016

Slovenia

Whale sanctuary plan is harpooned at the IWC

A group of countries, led by Japan, have blocked a move by South American and African states to create a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic.

25/10/2016

Slovenia

Saving the whale - IWC meets in Slovenia

Dispute between Australia and Japan is likely to feature near the top of the agenda at the organisation's biennial congress

24/10/2016

Spain

Catalonia vows to defy Spain court ruling overturning bullfight ban

Pro-independence politicians and animal rights activists have condemned the Madrid court decision saying the region had no right to ban bullfighting.

20/10/2016