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The Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary in India. Image credit: Raveesh Vyas India has had a system of wildlife sanctuaries since 1928. Now, there are more than 500 in the country ranging from dedicated tiger and bird reserves to more general areas intend to...
The greater sage-grouse was deemed to be “warranted but precluded” by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Though it “warrants” protection under the Endangered Species Act, Secretary of the Interior...
Photo via The Cove The Cove has made a tremendous impact on people when it comes to raising awareness about the slaughter of dolphins and the dark story of whale meat in the fish market. It has changed lives, riled people up, won its Oscar , and now...
Image credit: tibchris /Flickr Two tiger cubs were found dead in the Ranthambhore national park in India this weekend. Though an investigation is still under way, officials reported that early evidence suggests the cubs were poisoned…. Read the...
photo: Guyon Morée via flickr. Let’s take the idea of animal rights in a legal direction. Over the weekend voters in Switzerland rejected a proposal to start public funding for lawyers to defend animals in court . Which to many people in the...
Photo via Wikimedia Ocean ” dead zones ” have been a mystery for scientists to understand. Their new tool in trying? Dead pigs. Scientists are “piggybacking” on forensics research to study oxygen-poor zones in oceans, with pigs...
Image by B. Alter ‘Eating Animals’, the new book by Jonathan Safran Foer, has just been released in the UK and the author, a New Yorker, is on a book tour here. This week he spoke at Jewish Book Week , interviewed by Etgar Keret , a fellow...
photo: kodok via flickr. One more on the fact that, despite EU proposals to the contrary, palm oil plantations are not the same as forest, having far lower levels of biodiversity: Mongabay points out new research in the journal Basic and Applied Ecology...
photo via Webshots, efungus While humans have the reputation of being the most intelligent of Earth’s creatures, the higher you go on the food chain the less ability you have to regrow appendages. Yes, it’s too bad. Humans can cut themselves...
