Wildlife & Animal Welfare

By Jennifer Mishler American Airlines reports that they will no longer fly primates being sent to research labs! The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) has stated that the airline changed i...

A Bend, Ore., veterinarian has performed life-saving CPR on an injured bald eagle that was under anesthesia during physical therapy. KTVZ-TV reports Jeff Cooney performed the therapy, during which the bald eag...

By Dan Shapley Dupont's new herbicide, Imprelis, is considered prime suspect in the death of green living things. That shouldn't be a surprise, given that it's designed and marketed to kill lawn ...

The International Whaling Commission's (IWC) annual meeting has closed after a tense final day when relations between opposing blocs came close to collapse. (more…)...

Fishers are small predators in the weasel family known to naturalists for being elusive and fierce deep-forest dwellers; they're said to be one of the few animals that can hunt and eat porcupine, despite t...

By SEAN YOONG Scientists scouring the mountains of Borneo spotted a toad species last seen in 1924 by European explorers and provided the world with the first photographs of the colorful, spindly legged creatur...

By China DeSpain Freeman On Tuesday, the Obama Administration reached an agreement with wildlife advocates that would require the Interior Department to extend protection to a number of threatened species. If a...

By Ali Berman KFC is taking full advantage of the NBA lockout and asking their former employee, now NBA player, Dwyane Wade to come back to work as an Honorary Captain.   Wade worked at KFC during his...

Sri Lanka is preparing for its first-ever countrywide census of elephants. Wildlife Department head Chandrawansa Pathiraja says getting the numbers of elephants roaming the island's forests will help cons...

Experts in the western German town of Bexbach are still searching a supermarket for a spider that jumped out of a Colombian fruit crate on Friday. The eight-legged escape artist is thought to be a highly venomo...