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The Times reports that antique dealers want to reverse the law banning ivory trading 10 months after it was passed. The law is so new that it has not even taken effect yet. They’ve taken their case to the High Court and it will be …
Despite honeybees having less than 0.01% of the number of brain cells as humans, they are surprisingly dexterous with numbers. They can perform basic arithmetic. They understand the concept of zero. I’m told that some experts believe that humans did not understand the concept of …
Rabbits living solitary lives are lonely and fifty percent of pet rabbits in the UK live alone.
The Royal Parks is a charity and they manage eight parks in London. They have decided that they need to trap and kill grey squirrels in order to stop damage to ornamental trees, horticultural displays and nesting birds. Natalia Doran runs a squirrel rescue centre …
For those of us who detest foxhunting, this is great news. A spokesman for the Atherstone Hunt said that hunting activities would cease with immediate effect. The reason appears to be the attritional effect of a long-running battle with hunt saboteurs which has made fox …
“All of them would’ve had the same fate of being sold to slaughter and killed for food…” HumaneSociety: RT HSIGlobal: “All of them would’ve had the same fate of being sold to slaughter and killed for food.” – Kelly O’Meara/HSI Your support helped change the …
It was a little surprising to me that it is been found through research that robo-pets can help tackle loneliness and isolation for people with dementia living in care homes. Perhaps it should not be surprising. I’m going to be controversial. Humans are human-animals. We …
There is a catastrophe occurring as you read this concerning the population of rhinos in Africa and in this instance I want to write about Botswana where it is predicted that the rhino population will be reduced to zero within two years because of a …
An almost three-year drought over much of northern New South Wales has left the land tinder-dry leading to bushfires over nearly 230,000 acres causing birds to fall dead out of the sky and many homes to be razed to the ground. The intensity of the …
