Living in Harmony With Rats
About Rats Many people find that domesticated rats, who are descended from wild Norway rats, are affectionate, intelligent, and sociable animals, not that different from dogs. But others fear rats and don'...
Activist Threats Won’t Stop Japan Whale Hunts
TOKYO — Japan plans to go ahead with its whaling program in the Antarctic later this year despite threats from activists to disrupt the annual hunt. Japan's hunts have become increasingly tense in recent ...
October, 2011 National Adopt-a-Shelter Dog Month
Each year thousands of homeless animals are taken into shelters but only 5 out of 10 dogs and 3 out 10 cats are euthanized because they are not adopted. If you are looking for a new family member to share you...
World Animal Day
World Animal Day was started in 1931 at a convention of ecologists in Florence as a way of highlighting the plight of endangered species. Since then it has grown to encompass all kinds of animal life and is wid...
Millions Of Undiscovered Species On Earth, Study Finds
Our world is a much wilder place than it looks. A new study estimates that Earth has almost 8.8 million species, but we've only discovered about a quarter of them. And some of the yet-to-be-seen ones could be i...
Amphibian species clings to life
By Louis Sahagun One of the nation's most ambitious wildlife reintroduction efforts has suffered a setback with the deaths of 104 mountain yellow-legged frogs that had been rescued from the fire-stripped S...
Activists Ask For Wolf Hunts In Idaho And Montana To Be Halted
By Keith Ridler Environmentalists have asked a federal appeals court for an emergency injunction to halt wolf hunts scheduled to start in a few weeks in Idaho and Montana. The request filed by the Alliance fo...
Elephant Census Begins In Sri Lanka
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Thousands of rangers and volunteers have climbed into treetop huts near reservoirs and watering holes in Sri Lanka to carry out the island nation's first full count of its dwindlin...
Seth MacFarlane Honors Mother, Establishes Cat Sanctuary
By China DeSpain Freeman Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is honoring his mother’s memory by helping a cause she was passionate about: animal rescue. MacFarlane’s mother, Perry, passed awa...
Elephant Abuse: Ringling Brothers Circus Cited After Elephant Collapses
By Lucy Blodgett An elephant collapsed shortly after performing at a Ringling Bros. Circus last Sunday night at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, according to eyewitness accounts from Animal Defen...