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
America the Wild with Casey Anderson premieres on NatGeo Wild at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Sunday March 11th, then moves to Mondays at 9 p.m. The naturalist treks across North America, from Alaska to the Grand Canyon and the Southwestern deserts.
Hard on the heels of Iowa’s ban on undercover investigations of factory farms, Utah passed a bill on Wednesday that ban photographing farm animals or operations under “false pretenses.” Both houses of the Legislature overwhelmingly voted for passage, and the bill now goes to Gov. Gary Herbert for his signature.
With several companies already racing to produce the first laboratory grown alternative to meat from dead animals, another contender has joined the field.
His human friends are not the only people mourning the loss of Lawrence Anthony, the man known as the elephant whisperer. At Thula Thula, the private wildlife park in South Africa where he was the director of conservation, the entire herd of elephants who knew him and loved him, came to his home to say farewell.
The reunion was bittersweet, however. Since Rohn’s discharge, the Hultgrens have been unable to find a rental home that will accept DeeBoe, one of a group of “bully breeds” that are banned by many landlords and homeowners associations.
A new study suggests that a velociraptor whose fossil was found in China’s Gobi Desert, was in the middle of eating a flying pterosaur, when she died. That’s because a small pterosaur bone was found in the gut of the relatively intact velociraptor.
China’s new wealthy elite are being offered a $100,000 trip of a lifetime – hunting down endangered polar bears – according to a report in the London Daily Mail.
The prairie dogs have to go. That’s the word from Frederick, Colorado. This small town of 9,000 people has passed an ordinance that requires home and property owners to remove prairie dogs from their land.
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad has signed into law a bill that will make it an offence to capture undercover video of animal abuse by getting a job at a factory farm.
When two bears discovered the art of sledding at a wildlife park in Germany, they just went crazy with delight. After hitting the slopes several times, they dove into a play-fight, somersaulting through the snow together.
The World Bank has stepped in to help save the oceans. It is setting out to raise $1.5 billion from governments, the private sector and other groups to manage protected areas and reform fishing and other marine agreements.
How hard could a Tyrannosaurus Rex bite? Harder than anyone ever imagined! A new study by scientists concludes that T-Rex could deliver 12,800 pounds of bite – almost 20 times as much as they previously thought.
A bill, which passed with bipartisan support in the Iowa Legislature last week, would make it a criminal offence for people to get a job at a factory farm and then start taking undercover video of what goes on there. It’s now up to the governor sign it or veto it.
The world’s oceans are turning acidic at what could be the fastest pace of any time in the past 300 million years. That’s the conclusion of a new study published in the journal Science.
Afra Sultan al Dahiri says she almost gave up setting up her dream of opening a hotel for pets in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. At first, her application for a license was turned down on the grounds that a pet hotel is not listed as an economic or commercial activity there.
Tiger the pit bull likes food. Any food. Especially if it’s on his head. His person, Andrew Small of Crystal River, Florida, regularly uploads photos of Tiger with some new food item balanced on his head.
Renowned California chef Wolfgang Puck has written a letter urging fellow restaurateurs to embrace the state’s upcoming ban on foie gras. The bill, which was signed in 2004, gave restaurants eight years to come up with a humane alternative to the way the “delicacy” is produced.
Five months ago, in Zaragoza, Spain, the notorious bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla got bested by the bull. It was a grisly scene: the bull, known as Marques, plunged his horn into Padilla’s throat and it emerged out of the man’s eye.
In the world of dinosaurs, almost everything was bigger. Even the fleas. Back in the Jurassic Era, some of them were almost one inch long. New flea fossils, up to 165 million years old, have been found in China.
New research from a team at the University of St. Andrews Sea Mammal Research Unit suggests that when pods of bottlenose dolphins meet in the ocean, they exchange whistles in what is, even by human standards, a very complex and sophisticated communication system.