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• Canada’s Marineland to rehome its whales and dolphins as it seeks a buyer

  20-03-2025 14:00
  
  Conservationists voice concern that the Ontario theme park will struggle to find suitable homes for its animalsCanada’s embattled Marineland theme park is to raise money to “expeditiously” remove animals from its grounds, including the world’s largest captive beluga population, as it looks for a buyer. But a lack of available sanctuaries in the country suggests finding a home for stranded whales, dolphins and pinnipeds will be a daunting task.In February, the park won app
  
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• RSPCA revokes Huon’s accreditation after video showing live salmon being dumped in Tasmania

  20-03-2025 08:23
  It means no Tasmanian salmon companies are certified as meeting the RSPCA-approved standard, its chief executive saysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRSPCA Australia has revoked its accreditation of Tasmanian salmon company Huon after the release of a video that it said showed the inhumane handling of live fish.The withdrawal follows an initial 14-day suspension after the Bob Brown Foundation published drone video that showed writhing live salmon being siphoned into a t
  
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• ‘Like a horror scene’: animal charity rescues 70 starving snakes from property near Durham

  12-03-2025 21:06
  
  The founder of an animal sanctuary, which is now caring for the royal pythons, has called for improved laws to protect reptiles reared as petsThe founder of an animal rescue charity who discovered 70 starving pythons and dozens of dead snakes on a couple’s property near Durham has called for better laws to protect reptiles reared as pets.Daniel Holmes, of Knaresborough Exotic Rescue, said the condition of the snakes – some of whom he thinks had not been fed for a year – was so
  
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• Promise to phase out lead from UK game shooting has failed, study finds

  06-03-2025 07:00
  Vow in 2020 aimed to keep shot out of human food chain but study finds most game carcasses still contain leadA voluntary promise to phase out toxic lead shot in the UK has failed, meaning wildlife and human health are being put at risk, a study has found.The vow, made in February 2020 by the UK’s nine leading game shooting and rural organisations, aimed to benefit wildlife and the environment and keep toxic lead out of the human food chain. They aimed to phase lead shot out by 2025, and ho
  
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• Labour in Wales will ban greyhound racing

  24-02-2025 16:55 via labouranimalwelfaresociety.org.uk
  
  Greyhound racing will be banned “as soon as practically possible”, the Labour-led Welsh government has said. Senior Labour figures announced the ban “as soon as practically possible”, adding it was not “impossible” before the next Senedd election in 2026.Greyhound racing has been sharply criticised for harming dogs. The BBC reported that ministers had been under pressure to ban the greyhound racing, ‘including from their own Labour members’.It
  
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• Article: Forgotten Fish

  17-02-2025 16:10 via labouranimalwelfaresociety.org.uk
  
  Recently, LAWS supported an event on farmed fish welfare at the Scottish Parliament, led by the Humane League.
  Here is an overview of this important, but too often forgotten, animal welfare issue, written for LAWS by Georgie Hancock from the Humane League.The Humane League UK are standing up for farmed fish, the forgotten victims of factory farming. We are calling for the  UK governments to implement species-specific legislation for farmed fish at the time of their killing, including mandat
  
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• Waitrose to stop selling suffocated farmed prawns, as campaigners say they feel pain

  15-02-2025 17:41
  As the supermarket vows to introduce electrical stunning for its farmed prawns, campaigners call on others to follow suitThey are a popular staple for office lunches, barbecues and takeaways, but prawns often suffer an unpleasant death before reaching our plates.Animal rights campaigners say billions of prawns farmed each year deserve better welfare protection and are targeting what they describe as “atrocious” practices of “eyestalk ablation” and suffocation in ice slurr
  
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• Labor gifts duck hunters longer shooting season in Victoria and ups daily kill limit

  14-02-2025 09:26
  Allan government announces extended 2025 duck hunting season with hunters allowed to bag nine ducks a dayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWetland bird hunters in Victoria will have a longer duck shooting season and can take home more birds under new rules.The Victorian duck hunting season will begin on 19 March and run for 83 days until 9 June, up from 56 days in 2024.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
  
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• Domestic violence study that strangled rats should not have been approved, animal advocates argue

  13-02-2025 15:00
  Research aimed to improve detection of brain injury from intimate partner violence but critics say its non-fatal strangulation of animals was not justifiedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnimal welfare experts and advocates have questioned whether an Australian-led study that non-fatally strangled rats as part of research into the impact of intimate partner violence in humans should have been approved.They argue tha
  
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• Ministers stay silent on pledge to ban foie gras as EU talks approach

  13-02-2025 12:07
  Exclusive: Animal rights groups fear veterinary deal aimed at reducing border checks will prevent promised import banUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters have declined to restate their election pledge to ban the importation of foie gras in response to claims that a proposed “reset” with the EU will make it impossible.Negotiations with Brussels over a veterinary agreement to reduce the need for border checks on agricultural products are due to start in May with the aim of
  
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• Farmed animal welfare: LAWS hold event in Parliament

  11-02-2025 16:31 via labouranimalwelfaresociety.org.uk
  
  Today, LAWS held an event in Parliament on farmed animal welfare. Many Labour MPs dropped in to show their support for strengthening farm animal welfare and helping British farmers.We have identified four achievable policy solutions for the Labour government to strengthen farm animal welfare and support British farmers:
  Introduce mandatory animal welfare labelling Phase-out low welfare imports Transition to world leading cage-free systems Create regulations on slaughter for farmed aquatic animal
  
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• ‘They were going berserk’: horses allegedly distressed by frequent concerts at Flemington racecourse

  07-02-2025 15:00
  Exclusive: Stablehands speak out over concerns horses at Melbourne’s famous track are suffering due to event noiseGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt’s home to the Melbourne Cup and has become a de facto venue for some of Australia’s biggest festivals, drawing international acts and tens of thousands of fans every summer.But just a short distance away, those working at the Flemington racecourse stables say the events are creating problems for an unseen
  
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• East Anglian farms breach environment regulations 700 times in seven years

  05-02-2025 07:00
  Freedom of information data reveals violations on intensive poultry and pig farmsIndustrial-scale livestock farms across East Anglia have breached environmental regulations more than 700 times in the past seven years, freedom of information (FoI) data has revealed.The farms across Norfolk and Suffolk are among the largest in the country. Pig and poultry farming is concentrated in the region and 28% of England’s pig population was farmed in the area in 2023. Continue reading...
  
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• Exasperated Swinney forced to deny he plans to ban cat ownership in Scotland

  03-02-2025 18:56
  Keir Starmer’s spokesperson also rejects idea of UK ban after online misinformation prompted outrageScotland’s first minister and the UK prime minister’s spokesperson have been forced to deny there are plans to ban cat ownership in Scotland after media interest in feline welfare proposals prompted outrage from pet lovers.The concerns were prompted by media coverage of a report for the Scottish government by the independent Scottish Animal Welfare Commission, which published its
  
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• Change of menu: vegan pioneer turns his focus to animal welfare

  03-02-2025 00:20
  Andy Shovel, who worked at McDonald’s and co-founded THIS™, says A Bit Weird aims to ‘disarm people through fun’Andy Shovel’s career to date has been, you might say, a journey. A little over a decade ago he was working on the chicken station in a branch of McDonald’s. He then set up a burger delivery business in west London, which he and a cofounder would go on to sell for seven figures.A celebratory holiday in the Maldives and a period of research later, in 2
  
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• How will the bird flu affect the Trump presidency? | Katrina vanden Heuvel

  29-01-2025 16:30
  Bird flu has already proven a disaster for humans and animals alike. And it could get far worseThree days after Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization, a Long Island farm began euthanizing 100,000 ducks due to an outbreak of bird flu. It marked the latest spread of a virus that has also killed more than 100 million chickens and turkeys nationwide. Though fewer than 70 Americans have contracted the illness so far, scientists have warned that this strain may be
  
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• Environment secretary lambasts HS2’s £100m bat shelter

  25-01-2025 22:13
  Steve Reed says plans for 1km curved structure to protect bats from high-speed railway are ‘batshit crazy’A bat shelter costing more than £100m near HS2 has been described by the environment secretary as “batshit crazy”.
  HS2 Ltd is spending the sum on the protection structure in Buckinghamshire, it emerged last year. All bats are legally protected in the UK.
  The curved structure, which has been described by the HS2 Ltd chair, Sir Jon Thompson, as a “shed&rdquo
  
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• UK bans German meat and dairy products after foot-and-mouth case

  14-01-2025 14:26
  
  Import of pork, lamb and beef as well as live cattle, sheep and pigs suspended amid outbreak near BerlinBritain has banned imports of German pork, lamb, beef and dairy products to prevent foot-and-mouth disease spreading to the UK after a case of the disease was confirmed last Friday on the outskirts of Berlin.As well as prohibiting imports of ham, bacon, salami and cheese, the measure bans the import of live cattle, sheep and pigs, along with other animals which are susceptible to foot-and-mout
  
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• Five years, multiple deaths: what is happening at the home of the last captive whales in Canada?

  14-01-2025 13:00
  
  Ontario’s Marineland lost five belugas last year, which the park’s management puts down to the ‘circle of life’. But activists claim animal welfare is at stakeOn the southern shores of the Niagara River, a few hundred feet from the thundering falls, sits Marineland of Canada – an amusement park, zoo, aquarium and forest occupying nearly 1,000 acres of land (400 hectares). Over the years, millions of people have clamoured to view the park’s 4,000 animals, inclu
  
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• One of four lynx captured in Scottish Highlands dies

  11-01-2025 18:01
  
  Postmortem will be carried out on wild cat, one of four humanely captured in Cairngorms after illegal releaseOne of the four lynx captured in the Scottish Highlands this week has died. The animal, which had been illegally released, was caught on Friday near Kingussie in the Cairngorms national park.The Eurasian lynx was one of four that had been discovered running wild in the Dell of Killiehuntly area. Two were captured on Thursday and are being kept in quarantine at Edinburgh zoo. The other pai
  
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• Fears of ‘rogue rewilding’ in Scottish Highlands after further lynx sightings

  10-01-2025 21:53
  
  Environmentalists condemn unauthorised releases as ‘reckless’ and ‘highly irresponsible’For a brief moment this week, lynx have been roaming the Scottish Highlands once again. But this was not the way conservationists had hoped to end their 1,000-year absence.On Wednesday, Police Scotland received reports of two lynx in a forest in the Cairngorms national park, sparking a frantic search. That episode ended in less than a day. Both animals were quickly captured by experts
  
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• Two more lynx captured in Scottish Highland woods

  10-01-2025 21:50
  
  Second pair of illegally released animals safely captured in Cairngorms after they were spotted on camera trapsTwo more lynx abandoned in the Cairngorms have been safely captured, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland said on Friday.Two of the illegally released animals were captured on Thursday after being sighted in the Dell of Killiehuntly near Kingussie in the Scottish Highlands. Continue reading...
  
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• Two lynx captured after being illegally released in Scottish Highlands

  09-01-2025 11:21
  
  The wild cats were humanely trapped using cameras near baited traps and are in quarantineTwo lynx that were illegally released into the Scottish Highlands have been captured overnight and are said to be in good health.Police had issued a warning to the public on Wednesday evening not to approach the wild cats, after several sightings in the Drumguish area, near Kingussie. Continue reading...
  
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• UK ministers may lift BSE-era ban on animal remains in chicken and pig feed

  08-01-2025 15:00
  
  Exclusive: England and Wales proposals expected to follow Scottish consultation amid fears British farmers are being undercutMinisters may lift a ban introduced during the BSE crisis on the use of animal remains in feed for farmed chickens and pigs over fears that foreign producers are undercutting British farmers.A consultation on permitting the use of processed animal protein (PAP) from poultry, pigs and insects has opened in Scotland, and it is understood that proposals will be made for Engla
  
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• Puppies rescued from an abandoned caravan in Sussex – video

  08-01-2025 05:41
  A dog and 35 puppies were rescued after being left in a dilapidated caravan without food or water in Sussex. One dachshund puppy died days after being rescued. The woman who left the puppies was given a suspended sentence over numerous animal welfare offencesWoman who left 35 puppies in filthy caravan gets suspended sentence Continue reading...
  
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• Woman who left 35 puppies in filthy caravan gets suspended sentence

  07-01-2025 23:40
  
  One dachshund later died after Micaela Anderson-Letts left the animals without food or water in EastbourneA woman who left 35 puppies and a dog in a dilapidated caravan covered in faeces and without food or water in Sussex has been given a suspended sentence over numerous animal welfare offences.One dachshund puppy died days after being rescued from the mobile home in Eastbourne and other canines were treated by vets for malnourishment. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The woman was frantic – it hadn’t eaten or pooed’: what happened when a hat bobble was brought to a hedgehog rescue centre?

  31-12-2024 10:00
  The good Samaritan’s error became a viral sensation. Now, the charity says it needs support for our real prickly friendsMarch 2024: a fever dream of Tory budgets, Princess of Wales conspiracy theories and, er, hedgehogs that turned out to be hat bobbles. Yes, as Jeremy Hunt gripped the red budget box for the last time, one tale of goodwill gripped our hearts – that of the good Samaritan who mistook a rogue hat bobble on a Cheshire pavement for a sickly hedgehog, and rushed it to anim
  
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• Calls for Labour to honour pledge to toughen anti-hunt laws

  26-12-2024 14:32
  Government urged to ban trail hunting as data suggests illegal foxhunting is still widespread in England and WalesAnimal welfare campaigners are calling on ministers to keep to a pledge to toughen anti-hunt laws, as figures suggest illegal foxhunting remains widespread in England and Wales.Almost 20 years since the Hunting Act 2004 was brought in by Tony Blair’s government, the League Against Cruel Sports (Lacs) – the animal welfare charity that was the driving force behind the origi
  
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• Police investigate ‘horrific acts of cruelty’ against 29 chickens found dead at NSW high school

  22-12-2024 08:16
  
  Disturbing discovery of animals cared for by students made at Corrimal high school, south of SydneyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPolice are investigating “horrific acts of cruelty” against 29 chickens that were found killed in the grounds of a high school in New South Wales.Police were called to Corrimal high school, about an hour south of Sydney, at about 9:30am on Sunday and discovered the chickens dead in their enclosure.Sign up for Guardian Australia&
  
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• Chris Packham and Caroline Lucas accuse RSPCA of ‘legitimising cruelty’

  21-12-2024 12:31
  
  TV presenter and Green party politician resign from animal-welfare charity over response to undercover abattoir videosThe BBC presenter Chris Packham and the former Green party leader Caroline Lucas have resigned from the RSPCA animal-welfare charity, accusing the organisation of “legitimising cruelty”.It comes after an undercover investigation from Animal Rising, which campaigns for a plant-based food system, used hidden cameras to reveal animal cruelty at RSPCA-approved abattoirs.
  
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• LAWS Briefing: The Fur (Import & Sale) Bill

  13-12-2024 17:06 via labouranimalwelfaresociety.org.uk
  
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  A private members’ bill to end the import and sale of real fur in Britain has been introduced to Parliament by Ruth Jones, Labour MP for Newport West and Islwyn, and LAWS patron.The bill would extend current trade bans on cat, dogs and seal fur to other species, including mink, foxes, raccoon dogs, chinchillas, and other species.The crucial second reading of the bill will take place on Friday 13 June 2025.The UK because the first country in the world to ban fur
  
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• Pro-brumby activists racially vilified head of Indigenous group, Victorian tribunal finds

  03-12-2024 15:00
  
  Exclusive: Yorta Yorta woman targeted in campaign by Barmah Brumby Preservation Group that included posters with racist slogans, Vcat findsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA pro-brumby activist organisation racially vilified the then head of an Indigenous group in Victoria through posters and social media posts showing her face and racist slogans, the state’s civil and administrative tribunal has found.The Barm
  
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• ‘You feel sorry for the person as well’: why are so many pet cats being abandoned?

  01-12-2024 12:00
  Many of us saw lockdown as the ideal chance to get a cat. But now, a huge number of pets are being abandoned, and rescue charities are overwhelmedHelen Lecointe answers the phone sounding frazzled. As the senior manager of the Woodside Animal Welfare Trust in Plymouth, she is tasked with not only herding cats, but accommodating them, too, and this autumn, she says, the shelter is rapidly approaching breaking point. “It just feels as if it’s been nonstop,” she says. Long after t
  
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• UK ministers support bill to crack down on puppy smuggling

  29-11-2024 18:50
  
  Bill aims to strengthen animal welfare by closing legal loopholes around imports of dogs, cats and ferretsThe government has thrown its weight behind a bill to crack down on puppy smuggling as part of a commitment to strengthening animal welfare.Ministers announced on Friday that they were supporting a private member’s bill sponsored by Danny Chambers, a Liberal Democrat MP and veterinary surgeon, to crack down on the pet-smuggling trade. Continue reading...
  
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• London fashion week first of ‘big four’ to ban exotic animal skins

  29-11-2024 17:40
  
  Designers must commit to ditching skins of animals such as crocodiles and snakes from 2025London fashion week has become the first of the four main fashion weeks to ban exotic animal skins from shows from 2025 – the biggest industry event to do so.All designers staging fashion shows at the event will have to commit to ditching skins of animals such as crocodiles, alligators and snakes from their collections. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It’s a sleepy little place’: disbelief in north Wales after dramatic arrest of US terror suspect

  27-11-2024 22:11
  
  Daniel Andreas San Diego had been a fugitive from the FBI for two decades before he was found in Maenan villageMaenan, in north Wales, is not a place where very much happens. But earlier this week armed police descended on this tiny settlement, leaving neighbours in “disbelief”.They learned that a man they had sometimes seen near his home on the outskirts of the woods was in fact one of the FBI’s most wanted men. Continue reading...
  
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• Cambridge University veterinary course could lose accreditation over ‘ethical concerns’

  27-11-2024 10:27
  
  Worries about animal euthanasia and mishandling of complaints from students about racism among concernsThe University of Cambridge’s prestigious veterinary course could be stripped of its professional accreditation after regulators uncovered “ethical concerns” over animal euthanasia and mishandling of complaints from students who experienced racism and discrimination.Investigators from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) said Cambridge’s veterinary medicine co
  
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• Terror suspect on FBI’s most wanted list arrested in north Wales

  26-11-2024 20:04
  Daniel Andreas San Diego, 46, was wanted in connection with two office building bombings in 2003One of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives has been arrested in the Welsh countryside.Daniel Andreas San Diego, 46, has been on the FBI’s “most wanted terrorists” list for almost two decades for his alleged involvement in two office building bombings in San Francisco in 2003. Continue reading...
  
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• The short, painful life of your Thanksgiving turkey

  26-11-2024 18:00
  
  In this excerpt from his book Consider the Turkey, philosopher Peter Singer explains how the birds bred for maximum breast meat suffer from health problemsThe United States is the world’s largest turkey producer and the largest exporter of turkey products. Its residents also consume an ever-increasing amount of these birds. In 1970, Americans ate just over 8lbs (3.6kg) per person annually; by 2021, the National Turkey Federation reports that figure had nearly doubled to more than 15lbs.Tha
  
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• KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK

  23-11-2024 12:18
  
  Chain says it won’t be able to stop buying fast-growing breeds by 2026 because poultry industry cannot supply enough higher-welfare animalsThe fast food chain KFC has ditched its pledge in the UK to improve animal welfare by sourcing its chicken from slower-growing breeds by 2026.Fast-growing meat chickens have been called “Frankenchickens” because of welfare concerns, including higher mortality rates, lameness and muscle disease. More than 1 billion chickens are slaughtered in
  
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• Experience: My dog went missing for nine years – then we were reunited

  22-11-2024 11:00
  
  Finally, they brought him out to me, wrapped in a blanket. He looked at me when I said his name. He tilted his head at the familiar sound before licking my nose in recognitionI knew Gizmo was the one the moment I laid eyes on him. It was October 2013, and Gizmo was a newborn chihuahua. He was hairless, with swollen eyelids, and the runt of the litter. I fell in love. Over the next couple of years, he was the perfect companion. Whether he was watching Grey’s Anatomy with me or licking my no
  
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• UK failing animals with just one welfare inspector for every 878 farms – report

  20-11-2024 10:00
  Only 2.5% of more than 300,000 farms were inspected at least once in 2022 and 2023, researchers findThere is just one local authority inspector for every 878 farms in England, Scotland and Wales, according to a report, which says that the current welfare system is continuing to fail animals.Researchers for the Animal Law Foundation found that only 2.5% of the more than 300,000 UK farms were inspected at least once in 2022 and 2023, a marginal decrease from 2018-21 when Covid-19 might be expected
  
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• Fireworks blamed for baby red panda’s death at Edinburgh zoo

  14-11-2024 09:00
  
  Royal Zoological Society of Scotland calls for tougher laws after three-month-old Roxie dies from Bonfire Night stressThe owner of Edinburgh zoo has linked the death of a baby red panda on Bonfire Night to fireworks and called for tighter regulations.The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) said vets blamed the death of three-month-old Roxie on 5 November on her reaction to fireworks in the area. Continue reading...
  
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• Two Worcestershire women jailed for role in global monkey torture network

  13-11-2024 20:58
  
  Holly LeGresley, 37, and Adriana Orme, 56 uploaded content of monkeys being tortured to online chat groupsTwo women have been jailed for their parts in a global monkey torture network described by a judge as “depraved, sickening and wicked”.Holly LeGresley, 37, and Adriana Orme, 56, were jailed for two years and 15 months respectively for uploading content of monkeys being tortured to online chat groups. Continue reading...
  
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• South African tiger farms illegally smuggling body parts, says charity

  13-11-2024 18:37
  
  Biggest tiger farms outside Asia are operating freely in South Africa, Four Pawsanimal charity saysThe largest tiger farms outside Asia are operating freely in South Africa, facilitating the illegal smuggling of tiger body parts, according to a report by an animal welfare charity.Research by Four Paws, which is campaigning to shut down South Africa’s big cat industry, found 103 places in the country where tigers were kept in captivity in 2023 or 2024 or had been kept during the previous th
  
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• Koala deaths almost double in housing developments in south-western Sydney, data shows

  13-11-2024 06:13
  Conservationists demand action from Minns government after ‘alarming’ rise in deaths of female koalas and joeysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKoala road deaths have nearly doubled in a development hotspot in south-western Sydney, according to conservationists who are demanding the Minns government improve protection for the endangered species in new housing areas.In a letter – signed by more than
  
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• Louisiana governor criticized over live tiger show at university football game

  11-11-2024 15:57
  Jeff Landry outrages animal activists after importing Bengal tiger from Florida for on-field traditionA caged Bengal tiger was wheeled on to the field of Tiger Stadium in Louisiana’s capital of Baton Rouge for the first time in nearly a decade before kick-off of Saturday night’s football game between the state’s flagship university and its Alabama counterpart, fulfilling the wishes of the state’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry.The tiger in question – whose forced
  
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• Horse racing’s social licence depends on finding new homes for retired runners. These steps could help | Annie Knox

  03-11-2024 15:00
  Ex-racehorses make wonderful riding horses, but training and rehabilitating them takes work and education – and more industry supportSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterAbout 15,000 thoroughbred and standardbred foals were bred in Australia last year for horse racing. They will have outlived their usefulness for racing before they’ve reached even half of their natural lifespan. Around one-third of retired racehorses are absorbed into the adjacent breeding sector. The remain
  
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• Scientists dismayed as UK ministers clear way for gene editing of crops - but not animals

  02-11-2024 14:49
  
  Advocates urge government to allow ‘precision breeding’ to combat disease, but RSPCA warns of ethical dangersMinisters are preparing to introduce legislation that will permit the growing of gene-edited crops in England and Wales. But the new legislation will not cover the use of this technology to create farm animals that have increased resistance to disease or lower carbon footprints.The decision has dismayed some senior scientists, who had expected both uses of gene editing would b
  
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• Melbourne Cup forced to seek new appeal as race no longer stops the nation

  01-11-2024 15:00
  Horse racing industry is facing up to falls in attendances and betting amid concerns for equine welfareDeclining interest in attending and betting on horse racing has increased the importance of the Melbourne Cup to the industry, as the first Tuesday in November continues to be targeted by equine welfare and “Nup to the Cup” campaigners.With enthusiasm dwindling and the horse racing sector facing up to the need to attract a younger generation of fans, the race’s new music-lovin
  
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