Giant jellyfish have capsized a 10-tonne fishing boat after its crew tried to haul in a net full of the stinging creatures off the eastern coast of Japan…
Daily Archives: November 3, 2009
Animal Tests Probed After Cruelty Claim
The Government is investigating claims that animals at a Hampshire laboratory are suffering cruel deaths.
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) said its footage showed staff at Wickham Laboratories, in Wickham, accidentally breaking the back of mice when trying to kill them with ballpoint pens…
Usain Bolt Adopts Baby Cheetah
Usain Bolt, the world record-holding sprinter, has adopted the world’s fastest land animal, a baby cheetah.
The Jamaican sprinter has sponsored a three-month-old male cheetah as part of an effort to help protect wildlife in the African country Kenya…
Animal Activists Outraged By Nepal’s Plans For Mass Animal Sacrifice
Plans to sacrifice more than 500,000 animals during a two-day religious festival in Nepal this month have met with the wrath of animal rights activists, who have called for the 300-year-old ritual to be banned.
Every five years the tiny village of Bariyapur near Nepal’s southern border with India is swamped with blood as hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotees flock to the local temple to take part in what is thought to be the world’s biggest ritual slaughter…