Tag: animal rights
The New Big 5: How wildlife photography can help save threatened...
Shooting animals with cameras, not guns, is one key path forward in wildlife conservation.
Exposure to common herbicide potentially harms endangered species
“Finally the EPA has been forced to acknowledge atrazine’s far-reaching harms.”
Environmentalists sue Trump’s USDA for killing more than 1.2 million native...
“This mass slaughter is carried out in our backyards, on public lands, and in beloved parks; there is no limit to the program’s reach.”
Cargo vessels are killing more whales — and a new effort...
Collisions between whales and ships have increased, but an effort to hear, see and predict whale behavior could help reduce fatalities.
A good way to be kinder to elephants is to stop...
When animal tourism resumes in Bali after COVID-19, there is an opportunity to do better by the lives of animals.
Across the globe, Covid-19 puts animal shelters in crisis
While pet foster and adoption rates soar in New York and many parts of the U.S., globally, the situation is much direr.
Up to half a million sharks could be killed to create...
Conservationists fear that if two doses of the vaccine are needed to immunize the global population than half a million sharks would subsequently die.
Wildlife trafficking: 10 things everyone needs to know
These crimes threaten tens of thousands of species around the world, causing extinctions, hurting people and spreading disease.
Are America’s biggest food companies making progress toward reducing animal suffering?
Like countless animal lovers, I have always considered myself as someone who deeply cares for animals. As a kid, my pet dogs,...
Coronavirus shines light on zoos as danger zones for deadly disease...
The pandemic makes one thing clear: We must change our relationship with wildlife or suffer the consequences.
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Teamsters launch largest strike against Amazon in US history to demand fair wages and...
Amazon workers launch historic nationwide strike, demanding better wages, safer conditions, and union recognition from the $2 trillion corporation.
Israeli soldiers enforce kill zone in Gaza, targeting civilians and leaving bodies to rot
Israeli forces implement open-fire policies in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, targeting civilians and leaving corpses uncollected as a warning to others.
Pregnant woman in labor cited under Kentucky anti-homelessness law
Pregnant homeless woman in labor ticketed under Kentucky’s anti-camping law, sparking national outrage over the criminalization of homelessness.
Syria’s new fundamentalist government: Women ‘biologically’ unsuited to politics, universities to be segregated
The comments provoked a firestorm of protest among Syrian women and, well, non-fundamentalists.
Elon Musk for Speaker of the House? Republicans float billionaire amid spending bill fight
Republicans propose Elon Musk as Speaker of the House after his role in sinking a spending bill, raising unprecedented ethical and governance concerns.