Woman Who Lived In Her Car With 23 Pets Fined For Animal Cruelty

Sun:

Carol Lynette Samuels, 66, said she was a successful cat breeder but had fallen on tough financial difficulties…

Deaths Of Monkeys In Nevada Research Lab Stirs Controversy

Top News:

A Nevada research lab is being eyed by Animal-Welfare activists after 30 monkeys were essentially cooked alive in the lab. The monkeys were incinerated in the room when someone in the lab left the heater on. Two monkeys had to be euthanized due to their injuries…

Animal Rights Protester Cleared Of Killing Hunt Supporter With Girocopter

Mirror:

An animal rights protester whose gyrocopter sliced a hunt supporter’s head in two was yesterday cleared of killing him.

A jury took just seven-and-a-half hours to find Bryan Griffiths, 55, not guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence after a two-week trial…

Arctic Birds And Fish On The Increase – As Polar Bears Suffer Decline

Times Online:

The number of animals in the Arctic has increased during the past 40 years but those who live closest to the North Pole, such as polar bears, are disappearing, according to a new international study…

Retailers Settle Fur Lawsuit

Humane Society:

The Humane Society of the United States and retailers Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s have reached a settlement agreement in a lawsuit filed in 2008 alleging that several of the nation’s largest department stores and fashion designers have repeatedly engaged in false advertising and mislabeling of fur garments…

Woman Loses Legal Battle To Keep Her Dog

Independent:

A woman who says her dog is the reason for getting up in the morning lost a legal battle today to be allowed to keep pet Alfie at her housing association flat…

Morrissey Slams Damien Hirst Over Dead Animal Art

Gigwise:

Morrissey has said that Damien Hirst’s head should be “kept in a bag” for his use of dead animals in his artwork…

Chinese Zoo Closed Amid Tiger Starvation Investigation

Guardian:

Shenyang zoo has been closed after the deaths of 11 Siberian tigers and allegations of supplying the illegal tiger-bone trade…

Save Our Species Poll

What On Earth:

As spring fast approaches, The British Science Association is calling on nature lovers, keen gardeners and those of us that just appreciate the first blooms of the season – to help save five quintessential UK species. The UK’s own ‘Big Five’ Bluebell; Dormouse; Stag Beetle; Corncrake and Greater Horseshoe Bat have been chosen by National Science and Engineering Week from the European Red List of species at risk. All five are amongst the most rare, loved and iconic home grown flora and fauna the British Isles have to offer. Find out why these five species are so vital for the balance of UK biodiversity, how you can help stop them from disappearing entirely from the national landscape and even vote on your favourite in an online poll on http://www.whatonearth.org.uk/saveourspecies

On the site you can watch experts and popular personalities including garden designer Diarmuid Gavin, and explorer and lecturer George Mcgavin, give persuasive arguments for all of NSEW star species…

Missing Labrador Returns Home After 5 Years

Telegraph:

Iggy was an 18-month-old puppy when he disappeared in August 2005.

Brierley and her brother Jasper, now 14, were devastated. Their mum and dad Karen and Eric believed he had been stolen.

But the family, from Balladen, in Rawtenstall, Lancs, are celebrating after Iggy was spotted wandering the streets in Leicester and taken to a vet.

The vet discovered Iggy was fitted with a microchip and he has now been reunited with Brierley and her family.