MikeBThe millions of cats and dogs that pass through animal shelters in the United States annually are commercial assets if you look at them that way. I am not suggesting that you should but under financial pressure shelter managers might, and in doing so it …
A 22-year-old British student, Skye Wardle, has saved three ‘slaughterhouse’ dogs from China and they are all thriving under her care. She first adopted Clover, a male Golden Retriever, in Nov. 2016. Clover was in a terrible state of poor health at a dog slaughter …
Shockingly in an age when people are more aware of the cruelty of animal testing and when there are more opportunities through technological development to avoid testing on animals, in Holland it is on the increase and substantially so. NL Times reports that there was …
An organisation called the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting using data provided by people monitoring the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), tell us that a Zimbabwean whose name is Ron Thomson is responsible for killing around 5000 African elephants single-handedly. This organisation …
Dogs can have a great relationship with mailmen. There are some excellent examples. And mailmen are not always scared of dogs – quite the contrary. Some of them bring treats and plenty of love. So when their route changes it is pretty heartbreaking as you …
The butterfly monitoring scheme managed by Butterfly Conservation brings us good wildlife conservation news. I have to balance the bad with the good. More than 66% of butterfly species in Britain were seen in greater numbers in 2018 compared to 2017 due to the blistering …
Call it what you like, what comes around goes around or it’s karma, either way a poacher hunting rhinos in the Kruger National Park was stomped on by an elephant and eaten by a pride of lions. I call it nature’s retribution and teamwork. Without …
The story of Riff Raff, a 45-year-old bull elephant in South Africa, highlights a major problem in wildlife conservation on the planet, namely, the invasion of people onto territory occupied by wild species resulting in an ever present conflict over shrinking space between animals and …
Extraordinarily, two-tonne walruses are climbing steep rocky cliff faces to escape beaches overcrowded with other walruses whereupon they fall off to their deaths when trying to get down to feed. This is perhaps the most stark example of the effects of climate change in the …
