How to Save Lions by Killing Them. (Huh?)
Alexander Songorwa, director of wildlife for the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, explains that the best thing we can do to protect the remaining…
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Ringling Caves!
The elephants are packing their trunks. By any standard, today’s decision by the Ringling Circus to phase out its elephant acts represents a seismic shift in the use of…
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Collapse of Antarctic Ice Sheet Irreversible
One of the six major glaciers being eroded from below by warm water What does it mean when two major studies this week tell us that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is…
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2013 Game Changers
Two events share top prize as game changers for the year just ending: The Nonhuman Rights Project's lawsuits have started a whole new conversation about how we relate to other…
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Mother Carries Shot Pit Bull to Safety
It started out as the same hike that Andi Davis does every day to the top of one of the mountains near where she lives in Phoenix, Arizona. But this time, close to the top,…
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Liberators or Terrorists?
When 100 people, mostly women from various rescue groups, rescued 178 beagles from a research lab in Brazil last week, nobody called them terrorists. The five security officers…
The Right Music for Cats
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
The Yeti Bear
Pope Francis and the Animals–Day 2
We have a new pope, round-the-clock news coverage, reporters and commentators all over the world talking about St. Francis of Assisi, and not a word about whether this might relate to how we live our lives in relation to our fellow animals.
Warmer Winters All Across the U.S.
Climate Central has an interactive map showing that, regardless of snowstorms, winters have been warming especially fast all across the United States.
A Pope for the Animals?
The new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has taken the name Francis, after the patron saint of animals.
Bees Getting a Caffeine Buzz
Just as Starbucks lures you into its coffee shops with the promise of a tasty treat and a nice buzz of energy in pleasant surroundings, many…
Vivisected Chimpanzees Greet the Sun
Check out the moment when a group of chimpanzees who have lived their lives at the New Iberia laboratory in Louisiana step out into the sun…
Did Military Dolphins Go AWOL?
A prank photo from Fox News in Australia The story was that three dolphins trained for action by the Ukrainian Navy had gone missing. Worse, they…
Cat Demonstrates Rotating Snake Illusion
As you look at one area of this picture, other areas may appear to be rotating. (And there are lots of other examples of what’s known…
Europe Bans Cosmetics Tested on Animals
After years of obstruction from the vivisection industry and cosmetic companies, the European Union has finally enacted a complete ban on the sale of cosmetics developed…
More Clues for Life on Mars
Fresh from analyzing a sample of rock, the Mars rover Curiosity has answered a key question: Could the Red Planet have once supported life? “From what…
Prince William: Save Rhinos, Kill Others
Britain’s Prince William, an avid hunter, has sent a video message to the CITES conference (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species), saying how upset he…
CITES Failing to Excite
The big international conference that decides the fate of endangered animals is serving up its usual mix of a small reprieves while still condemning vast numbers…
Happy Cows!
Here are a couple of totally delightful videos of cows in Europe being let out of their winter barns and onto their spring pastures. People who…
Great Apes in the Mist
KCET interviews great ape researcher Craig Stanford about the demise of our closest cousins in the wild. Stanford explains why all the great apes will be…
Comet Heading for Mars
In the wake of the asteroid fly-by two weeks ago, and the meteorite that slammed into Russia the same day, we now hear that Mars might…
Elephants Know They’re Going Extinct
“Behind the numbers is a real tragedy of a very sentient creature, who really knows that there’s a genocide going on.” Biologist Richard Ruggiero of the…
If Other Animals Ate Like Humans
By Rollin Wild
Crows Rolling in the Snow
If you thought the crow who goes snowboarding was just a one-off, this video, also from Russia, would seem to say otherwise. Or maybe it’s just…
Marineland Owner Shot Neighbors’ Dogs, Say Witnesses
Everything you hear about Marineland and its owner, John Holer, just gets more and more bizarre. And horrific. Why is this place still operating? Why is…
"Blood Ivory" Tops Agenda at International Conference
The ivory trafficking business is the #1 item at the 178-nation Conference on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) that’s being held this week and next in Bangkok, Thailand.
But don’t hold your breath for any significant action.