Late yesterday, a key Oregon Senate Committee took up the nation’s first proposed statewide ban on mink farming in the wake of a torrent of scientific findings to indicate the major role that mink farms
With the country shutting down tourism to reduce transmission of the virus, that means no foreigners are there to patronize hundreds of “elephant camps” that offer elephant rides in nature parks and other forested settings.
Under President Mokgweetsi Masisi, Botswana has backtracked on its 2014 national wildlife protection policy, and on April 6th the southern African nation will do lasting damage to its reputation by allowing trophy hunters to tromp
Spectators stir, unroll wads of cash, and finish up their side bets as a pulley lowers two roosters in a partitioned plastic cage from the ceiling and into a center pit. That pit is encircled
Nike’s kangaroo-leather soccer shoes drive massive wildlife kill in Australia’s Outback By a long shot, the public-private scheme to kill kangaroos in Australia is the biggest commercial slaughter of native wildlife in the world. Despite
Even though mink are more susceptible to COVID-19 than any other non-human mammal, and hundreds of thousands of mink have been infected by the virus at these factory farms from Lithuania to Spain to Michigan
Court Ruling Recognizes Animal Wellness Action and Invokes Language and Facts from our Pleadings in the Case It’s just about the end of the line for America’s cockfighting industry in the states and territories. Yesterday,
Groups allege North Carolina retains an extensive network of illegal cockfighting operations Washington, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action (AWA) and the Animal Wellness Foundation (AWF) today asked North Carolina’s three U.S. Attorneys to launch an investigation
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week, a militia group known as the Mai-Mai fighters, in its long-running insurrection against the government there, murdered at least six rangers in the Virunga National Park.
The globally unmanageable hopscotching of COVID-19 between living beings is today putting a spotlight on one of the most obscure, ruthless, and frivolous of animal use industries: the production of wild animals on fur farms,