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Laboratory Staff Charged with Felony Animal Cruelty
Animals in LaboratoriesVideo images taken by an undercover investigator with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA ) at the Professional Laboratory and Research Services (PLRS) facility in North Carolina documented...
Animal Victims of Tsunami and Radiation Crisis
Companion AnimalsOn March 11, an earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed entire communities on the coast of northeastern Japan, killing over 15,000 people. Close to 5,000 are still lost in the rubble...
GAO Study Wastes Time and Tax Dollars
Companion AnimalsAfter almost two years and tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released its report, Horse Welfare: Action Needed to Address Unintended Consequences from Cessation of...
Frisco Farmers’ Market Ends Live Bird Sales
Farmed AnimalsLive chickens and other birds have been sold at the Heart of the City Farmers' Market at the United Nations Plaza in San Francisco for the past two decades. The...
Steak with a Side of Superbugs
Farmed AnimalsA recent study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases reported wide contamination of meat with strains of drug-resistant bacteria. Nearly half of all meat and poultry sampled for the study contained...
No Class: Teacher Reassigned After Ridiculing Student’s Anti-Dissection Stance
Animals in LaboratoriesA Florida middle school teacher has been disciplined after taunting a 13-year-old student for choosing not to dissect a frog during science class. According to the student, the teacher snuck...
The Virtue of Virtual: Schools Switch to Digital Dissection
Animals in LaboratoriesSo far, nine schools in California and Maine have agreed to end animal dissections in response to a challenge issued by AWI, Save the Frogs! and Digital Frog International. In...
Big Consequences of Small Fish Collapses
Marine WildlifeWhile populations of top marine predator fish like tuna, billfish and sharks plummet, Stanford University researchers have found that anchovies, sardines, and other small fish are at an equal or...
Danube River Sturgeon Granted Safe Passage
Marine WildlifeDanube sturgeons—whose roe is prized as a source of caviar—have become so critically endangered that caviar exports from natural fish populations (as opposed to farmed fish) from all Lower Danube...
Live Sharks Prove Lucrative as More Countries Move to Protect Them
Marine WildlifeMexico and the Bahamas joined the list of countries this summer that have banned shark fishing within their territorial waters. Meanwhile, Chile outlawed shark finning at sea within its waters....