This blog is taking a break for the next few months so that I can devote my energies to the Whale Sanctuary Project. Here's why.
The Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica was the first of its kind for these wonderfully engaging animals, and it was a model for others that followed. But questions have arisen. And…
Tafi Atome looks like a typical forest in Ghana. The monkeys have been revered in this village for two centuries. But being “sacred” is no guarantee of survival.
The great irony of the animal rights movement is there is still only one species that has any rights at all: humans. But the Nonhuman Rights Project is setting out to change that.
Why would a supposedly “intelligent” species behave in a way that’s bringing about a mass extinction – one that will likely take us down along with so many other animals?
Is the Stock Market a Global Ponzi Scheme?
Sacred Activism in the Service of Animals
Of Humans and Persons
After playing their role impeccably for the James Bond sequence in the Olympics’ opening ceremony, the Queen’s corgis have disgraced themselves on the royal summer vacation at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Her Majesty’s six dogs ganged up on Max, an 11-year-old Norfolk terrier belonging to Princess Beatrice as the dogs were all coming in from a walk.
Flagstaff, Ariz., has decided to exterminate the prairie dogs around city parks. Are there too many prairie dogs? Quite the opposite, in fact. They are rapidly disappearing, and we are now down to about 2 percent of the prairie dog numbers that existed 100 years ago.
Kesho and Alf hadn’t seen each other for three years. And in that time, Kesho had really grown up. Now 13 years old, he weighs almost…
A group of Brazilian researchers wondered if the presence of a pet in the home of a child with epilepsy might reduce their risk of dying from SUDEP. They found that of the 1,092 children in the study, not a single child living with a companion animal had died.
As they migrate across the U.K. from Iceland, pink-footed geese have changed their itinerary to avoid wind farms. That’s encouraging news to bird protection groups, who…
“The seal was writhing in pain … blood coming from his eye … The dolphin’s skin was flaking off … The water had gotten so bad…
The rate at which fish are going extinct in North American rivers and lakes is rising dangerously and may soon double again, according to a study…
Better news for C.J. the chimpanzee who broke out of her Las Vegas home for the second time and was taken to the zoo. She’s on…
November 2009: Lady Gaga to Ellen Degeneres: “I hate fur and I don’t wear fur.” August 2012: PETA in a letter to Lady Gaga after she…
Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee has told SeaWorld they can’t use any of his music at their marine circus acts. In a letter to John T.…
Incredibly, C.J., one of the two chimpanzees who escaped from their cage at a private home in Las Vegas in July, broke out yet again. She…
A major deer hunting magazine calls him “a diehard whitetail hunter.” (In fact, it’s the deer who dies hard.) Paul Ryan is a bows-and-arrows hunter, who…
It’s the ecology, stupid … The movie shooter’s animal connection … parrots know which box has the food … Are cats wiping out birds? … India’s…
They’re the largest animals in the world. So it’s no surprise that they leave behind quite a trail of Number Two. The photo, captured by photographer…
NASA’s top climate scientist says the projections he made to Congress back in the 1980s about how global temperatures would increase have come true. But he…
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is made to order for Stephen Colbert. You could have bet that his idiotic remarks about why we should allow dog-fighting would…
Black Swan star Natalie Portman’s wedding last Saturday evening was all traditional Jewish – except for the menu. All vegan. [readon] Portman has been a vegetarian…
Two delightful videos of dogs visiting with dolphins in the ocean. First, Kira, a black Lab, regularly joins a dolphin-watching expedition off the coast of Mozambique.…
After the shocking massacre at the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, we noted that every serial killer on record and many other mass murderers had a…
The current heat wave sweeping South Korea has claimed hundreds of thousands of domestic animals. At least 830,000 farm animals, including 786,000 chickens, 41,000 ducks and…