Following the conviction of Professor Thabo Masihlelo for animal cruelty, Four Paws South Africa urges the government to expedite the phase-out of the captive lion industry, highlighting the urgent ...

A Washington state wildlife sanctuary is reeling after losing 20 big cats to bird flu in just weeks. The Wild Felid Advocacy ...

By sticking to a narrow interpretation of export permit requirements, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George is missing a golden opportunity to end the rampant exploitation of ...

To help reverse this trend, a male and a female tiger were moved into Kazakhstan’s Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve, which was ...

noted that gladiatorial spectacles involving wild animals were not limited to major cities of the Roman Empire but extended into its provinces. "Predatory animals—above all big cats but also ...

Efficacy aside, the monkey trade is big business ... its breeding stock from other captive-breeding operations, and which is sourcing it from the wild. It is equally unclear whether wild caught ...

Hunt scenes recreated in the arena put gladiators up against bears, bulls, stags, wild boars ... these were produced from the teeth of a large cat, such as a lion,” Thompson and his team ...

Yes, Joe was convicted over a failed murder-for-hire plot that targeted archenemy Baskin, owner of Big Cat Rescue ... banned from owning or handling wild animals for five years, and received ...

The Bali myna once faced extinction from the illegal wildlife trade. An unusual approach may have helped save them.

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