By Kim Palmer | Reuters – 1 hr 24 mins ago CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A gorilla known for being the patriarch of a renowned gorilla surrogacy program at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio died on Friday at an estimated age of 47, the zoo said. The popular gorilla, Mumbah, was eating breakfast with his family…
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Idaho will open its wolf population, now estimated at about 1,000 animals, to extensive hunting and trapping to reduce their numbers to no fewer than 150 under a plan approved on Thursday by the state Fish and Game Commission. The move came after a heated public hearing Wednesday night in Salmon,…
Get ready for a showdown! The Puppy Bowl faces new competition with the Kitten Bowl, as both compete for your heart and promote pet adoption this Super Bowl Sunday.
By Jo Ingles | Reuters – 20 hrs ago COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) – Ohio legislation designed to clamp down on ownership of wild animals after the escape last year from a farm of dozens of dangerous beasts including lions, tigers and bears, is drawing criticism from private animal owners for being too tough and from animal rights…
Reuters – 34 mins ago LONDON (Reuters) – Once hovering on the brink of being classified as an endangered species, the humble five pound note is back with a vengeance. Britons are using 10 times more “fivers” than they were two years ago, the Bank of England said on Thursday, as the notes become more widely available…
There are many things we can do as a person, a neighbor, a citizen and a community to help in the fight against animal and pet abuse, but right now we do not have a solution as to quickly fixing this problem. This fight will be won slowly and by one person at a time,…
We frequently read or hear on the news of animals being rescued from someone or some place where the animals have just been left to fend for themselves. Unfortunately too often that call comes too late for many of the animals to be saved. They have been left in pens that are too small for…
BOSTON (Reuters) – A pair of bald eagles in Maine did more than their part to distance themselves from the endangered species list in a rare quadruple hatching of four eaglets, wildlife officials said on Thursday. “Four eagles in one nest is quite a crowd,” state wildlife biologist Kendall Marden said, calling the hatching of…
SYDNEY – A conservationist group’s boat that was chasing a Japanese whaling vessel off Antarctica was seriously damaged by a giant wave Thursday — a major setback in the group’s ongoing and sometimes violent battle with Japan’s whaling fleet, the activists said. The wave cracked the hull and severely damaged one of the pontoons on…
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – For the first time in decades, wolves in Wyoming would be stripped of Endangered Species Act protections and could be hunted under a deal struck on Wednesday between the state and the federal government. The deal comes after years of legal battles among the state, the federal government and conservation groups…