Notorious monkey trafficker Charles River Laboratories intends to truck about 1,000 endangered, illegally imported long-tailed macaques from Houston to Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning (March 14), where they will be put on the next flight back to Cambodia to be returned to the smuggling pipeline for the experimentation industry—apparently with the blessing of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) and the U.S. Department of Justice.
After the biggest ever wolf cull in Sweden in recent months, the planned cull of lynx is out of all proportion to any danger to livestock or people, Swedish wildlife conservationists say. They are asking the EU to take action against Sweden for breaching environmental law.
"Some may call it greed, but we also keep pets and eat livestock, that’s because there is a demand, so how is it any different to fur trade?”, one fur garment seller says.
What you may have expected is now confirmed by research: many popular Android apps for pets as well as farm animals are putting their users at risk by exposing sensitive personal data. The article provides some advice to mitigate the privacy risks.
"These studies fail on both scientific and ethical grounds", one researcher argues.
Rubén Nava had been replaced as director of the local zoo in the city of Chilpancingo on 12 January following the death of a deer there. But an investigation found some animals in the zoo had allegedly been sold, traded or eaten under Nava’s orders.
The species' precipitous population decline has continued year after year. Scientists recently estimated that only 340 North Atlantic right whales remain, including just 70 reproductive females that give birth every three to 10 years.
The Caribbean territory plans to exterminate at least 450 of the invasive primates – but critics disagree with the proposal.
US president Joe Biden signed a legislation already in late December 2022. The change—long sought by animal welfare organizations—could signal a major shift away from animal use after more than 80 years of drug safety regulation.
Hunters in the five Swedish counties with the most wolves will be allowed to kill a total of 75 wolves out of a national population of 460 animals.
Located in a German region famed for its frugality, Tübingen is known for its fiercely green reputation, where veganism and environmental friendliness are the default setting.
[This article is from March 2022, but I thought it's interesting despite it's been published months ago. Please correct me if you think I'm mistaken.]
The findings have a tremendous effect on animal welfare laws in the UK and elsewhere.
A driving factor in support for a new legislation is the Indigenous consideration and recognition that animals and humans, and the environment surrounding us, are interconnected.
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