Category: Animal Rights & Welfare
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Rye, New Hampshire passed one measure barring barn swallows from a town barn and another forbidding anyone to disturb them. The contradiction is only apparent — and it captures a real conflict about wildlife that is playing out in barns everywhere.
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An operation across 134 countries produced a record 4,640 seizures, including nearly 30,000 live animals. A record seizure figure can mean enforcement improved or that the trade grew — and the animals that die in transit are never counted at all.
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A campaign group, not a public authority, is prosecuting alleged animal welfare offences at a Lincolnshire pig farm. A court deadline falls this week. Nobody has been found guilty of anything, and the case is as much a test of who enforces animal welfare law in England as of what happened on one farm.
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Three of twelve cats sampled near California dairy farms carried antibodies to H5N1. What that shows, why farm cats sit at an awkward junction between livestock and wildlife, and the welfare question that no framework currently owns.
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South Australia has too many koalas, and researchers warn the forests cannot feed them. How a threatened species becomes overabundant, why leaving it alone means starvation, and what each of the four available options actually costs.
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Twenty elephants have died since June in southern Kenya. Early tests suggested cyanide from pesticides, but wildlife experts say the evidence does not fit the symptoms. Why the number is large, what the herd loses beyond individuals, and the conflict underneath.
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A contested measure on state farm-animal housing laws was left out of the US Farm Bill after the Senate Agriculture Committee did not pass it. What the fight is really about, the case on each side, and the enforcement question underneath it.
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Florida prosecutors and sheriffs are backing three federal bills targeting organised animal cruelty. Why hoarding cases are the visible part, why crossing a state line changes everything, and the arguments against federal expansion.
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Seven billion hens, four labels that mean very different things, and a transition that is uneven and often misunderstood. What cage-free actually means, what free-range doesn’t, and where the reform has and hasn’t reached.
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Pangolins are the most trafficked wild mammal on earth — up to three million in a decade — hunted for scales made of the same material as human fingernails. Most people who see one for the first time have never heard of the species.