Earthlings
Climate Change is Killing Trees
Just once in our planet’s long history, nearly all of the trees died – during the Permian-Triassic 252 million years ago, and event known as “the Great Dying.” It appears that such an event may be re-appearing. Throughout the world, trees are dying en masse.
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The Great Barrier Reef on Life Support
Recent news of another (the 6th) bleaching event at the Great Barrier Reef is but one more example in a long list of recent climate-related events that depict a scenario that can only be described as triple-alarm climate emergencies, as ecosystems breakdown across the world.
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Factory Farms Destroy Ecosystems
Factory farms are the Grim Reapers of civilization, inhumanely penning up and slaughtering cows, pigs, and chickens by the tens of millions, as well as unintentionally, but effectively, poisoning, maiming and/or killing birds, insects, amphibians, mammals, and crucial life-supporting ecosystems that are key to human life. And, it’s legal.
Read More Poisoning the Planet’s Web of Life
The Web of Life is under attack but almost nobody is aware because it’s happening mostly below the surface. Scientists have identified a rampant worldwide Bugpocalypse that’s methodically killing the planet’s most significant and most crucial life support system, and it’s intentional!
Read More Seaspiracy’s Nightmarish Odyssey
Seaspiracy is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life, as shown on Netflix, released by Disrupt Studios March 24th 2021.
Read More Help Taika Waititi ‘Save Ralph’
Taika Waititi has lent his voice to the ‘spokes-bunny’ of a new campaign to ban animal testing for cosmetics.
Read More Oceanic Sharks and Rays Have Declined by 71% Since 1970 – A Global Solution Is Needed
Marine biologists have been raising the alarm for several decades now, but their warnings were often ignored. Now, new research has brought together disparate threads of data into a single, global analysis of shark and ray populations in the open ocean.
Read More Plant-Based Diets Crucial to Saving Global Wildlife, Says Report
The global food system is the biggest driver of destruction of the natural world, and a shift to predominantly plant-based diets is crucial in halting the damage, according to a report.
Read More Complex Life Threatened
The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its life forms—including humanity—is so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well informed experts.
Read More Boundless Dying Trees
Global warming is ravaging forests throughout the world.
Read More More Than 500 Dams Planned in Protected Areas Around the Globe, Study Finds
More than 500 dams are planned or already under construction within protected areas around the world, according to a new study published in the journal Conservation Letters.
Read More Former Dairy Farms Now Make and Deliver Vegan Oat Milk
Refarm’d is helping former dairy farmers transition away from animal agriculture and produce and deliver vegan oat milk.
Read More ‘To Finish’; Looking at Language
‘Finishing’ is yet another of the words with which the animal use industry glosses over the monstrous activities of our species.
Read More The Top 10 Ocean Biodiversity Hotspots to Protect
A new study took a deep dive into critical aspects of ocean life to identify the areas of the high seas most worthy of conservation effort.
Read More Meat Is Not Essential. Why Are We Killing for It?
For years, we have knowingly destroyed our planet for the sake of a protein preference. Now, we are sending humans to their deaths.
Read More Why is Animal Research So Seldom in the News?
If you are like most people, you know a lot more about how farm animals are treated on factory farms than dogs, primates and other animals are treated in U.S. labs. It is no coincidence.
Read More Forest Service Recommends Hugging Trees While You Can’t Hug Others
The Icelandic Forestry Service is encouraging people to hug trees while social distancing measures prevent them from hugging other people.
Read More Dress Rehearsal for the Apocalypse
As we look out on silent, empty, streets, watching while statistics of the sick and the dead skyrocket out of control, and the sickening chill of fear clutches at our hearts for our loved ones whom we are powerless to protect, the question that hangs in the air is, ‘Why?’
Read More Insect Populations on Land Are Down 50%, Study Shows
If you haven’t noticed as many bees, butterflies and fireflies as you used to, there’s a good reason for that.
Read More Conservationists Point at Pandemic as Reason to Protect Wildlife
As scientists believe the new coronavirus may have been passed to humans in a live animal market in China, wildlife advocates say rolling back efforts to protect threatened animal populations has dire consequences.
Read More The Coming Ecosystem Collapse Is Already Here for Coral
The Great Barrier Reef is in the midst of its third mass-bleaching event in the last five years. This year’s heat-induced bleaching—which occurs during the region’s summer season—is more severe than the previous two, with 25 percent of the reefs experiencing widespread bleaching.
Read More How COVID-19 Took Hold and Why We Must End the Wildlife Trade
Here’s what we can do to make sure the critical mistakes made after the SARS outbreak won’t be made again.
Read More Ode to the Monarch Butterfly
Can humankind take inspiration from the Monarch butterfly?
Read More Ban Wildlife Markets to Avert Pandemics, Says UN Biodiversity Chief
Warning comes as destruction of nature increasingly seen as key driver of zoonotic diseases
Read More Stopping Animal Abuse will Prevent Future Pandemics, says Leading Scientist
“By creating distressed and sick animals, we are harming ourselves,” claims Dr Aysha Akhtar, a neurologist and public health specialist.
Read More Coronavirus Closures Reveal Vast Scale of China’s Secretive Wildlife Farm Industry
Peacocks, porcupines and pangolins among species bred on 20,000 farms closed in wake of virus
Read More Coronavirus: ‘Nature Is Sending Us a Message’, Says UN Environment Chief
Destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis is hurting humanity, with Covid-19 a ‘clear warning shot’, say experts.
Read More Rising CO2 in the Ocean Will Make Fish ‘Intoxicated,’ Scientists Predict
Rising levels of CO2 are wreaking havoc on our natural environment, causing increases in global temperatures, sea levels and seawater acidity. Now scientists are predicting that the increased CO2 in our oceans may have the effect of ”intoxicating” fish, impacting their ability to survive in the wild.
Read More Who Hears the Fishes When They Cry? The Filthy Business of Fish Farming
On October 7th, 2019, animal protection organization Compassion Over Killing released footage from their new undercover investigation of a salmon factory farm.
Read More With Temperatures Rising, Can Animals Survive the Heat Stress?
A growing number of studies show that warming temperatures are increasing mortality in creatures ranging from birds in the Mojave Desert, to mammals in Australia, to bumblebees in North America. Researchers warn that heat stress could become a major factor in future extinctions.
Read More Thinking of Ducks
Ducks. As a child I used to love visiting duckponds. These memories linger, visions of a lost childhood when I thought the world was a place of beauty and wonder. Oblivious to the barbarity of my species, I had no clue what was really in store for the majority of ducks, and the world became a blacker and more sinister place for my knowing.
Read More ‘Apocalypse Cow’ Is the Documentary Meat-Eating Environmentalists Need to See
Channel 4 documentary “Apocalypse Cow: How Meat Killed the Planet” could change the way some environmentalists see meat.
Read More ‘Because Insects Are Key to Our Own Survival,’ 73 Scientists Unveil Global Roadmap to Battle Bugpocalypse
The immediate “no-regret” measures they propose include aggressively curbing planet-heating emissions and the use of synthetic pesticides.
Read More The Issues with Eating Dairy, Eggs and Honey [Interview with Daniel Schmachtenberger]
In this interview with researcher and think-tank developer Daniel Schmachtenberger, we discuss some of the fundamental ethical questions and issues surrounding animal rights and veganism.
Read More All The Species Declared Extinct This Decade
Scientists estimate that species are going extinct 1,000 times faster than they should be, and “literally dozens” go extinct each day. Gizmodo compiled a list of the species that the IUCN has formally declared extinct in the past decade.
Read More Science: Bees Are the Most Important Species on Earth
Bees are the most important species, according to research that reveals how wild bee health impacts the environment more than colony collapse disorder.
Read More Fishes, Sentience, And The Law
Despite recent increases in the interest towards bird and mammal protection, less attention is paid to the suffering experienced by fishes in the fishing industry. But without a morally relevant difference between aquatic and land animals, the same moral obligations should apply to fishes and other aquatic animals, too.
Read More In the Presence of Elephants and Whales: Interview with Katy Payne
Katy Payne is a renowned acoustic biologist who has discovered that humpback whales compose ever-changing songs and that elephants communicate across long distances by infrasound.
Read More Say ‘Cheese’ – But There’s Nothing to Smile About
How many nonvegans know the difference between 1) the kind of cheese we were all raised to think of as ‘normal’, 2) vegetarian cheese and 3) vegan cheese?
Read More Overfishing Ban Could Save the Oceans From Climate Change
A ban on overfishing could protect the oceans and help fight climate change, a new report says. Overfishing is impacting the oceans’ health and resilience.
Read More Plastic? What’s Really Killing Our Oceans?
The public has expressed growing concern for the state of our oceans, as plastic is quickly outnumbering the amount of fish in the sea. But what is the main driver of ocean plastic? It turns out that close to 50% of the plastic debris in our oceans is abandoned fishing gear.
Read MorePesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual
Regardless of a rapidly emerging health and environmental apocalypse, with the pesticide industry being one of the key drivers, unrestrained capitalism reigns, profits trump public interest and its business as usual.
Read More California to Become Third State to Ban Wild Animal Circuses
Animal-rights groups rejoice as the new legislation, which will effectively ban wild animal circuses statewide, heads to the governor’s desk.
Read More Thoughts About Diluting the Animal Rights Message
The victims of our food habits have no one but us to tell the truth about the grave injustice of the ordeal to which we routinely subject them. We owe that truth to them as they queue in the milking parlours and hatcheries and slaughterhouses; and we owe that truth to every single member of our own species.
Read More Neonicotinoid Pesticides Have Caused A Huge Surge in the Toxicity of Agriculture
The most widely used class of insecticides is dangerous for much more than its intended target, new research finds.
Read More Room to Roam: How Animals Benefit From Wildlife Corridors
Development, resource extraction and roadbuilding have fragmented landscapes and reduced wild spaces making it harder for animals to find food, search for a mate and adapt to a changing climate. Ecologists and conservationists have been working for decades to create wildlife corridors — areas of natural habitat that can reconnect fragmented habitats.
Read More So What’s Wrong with Wool?
Despite the fact that farming sheep is at least as harmful to the environment as farming cows, many sheep raised for wool are treated very cruelly. This video reveals the very disturbing treatment of sheep on an Australian wool farm, which is unfortunately considered “treatment as usual” across Australia and much of the world.
Read More What Animals Are Thinking and Feeling, and Why It Should Matter | Carl Safina | TEDxMidAtlantic
Carl Safina takes us inside the lives and minds of animals around the world, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought and emotion. And yet, we are wiping out the very animals we should celebrate; we are the flood coming for Noah’s Ark. Carl leaves us with a difficult question: Do we have what it takes to let life on earth survive?
Read More California Becomes First State to Ban Fur Trapping
Written by Louis Sahagun and Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — California has enacted a...
Read More Animal Agriculture Is Major Driver of Australia’s Faunal Extinction Crisis
In a submission to an Australian government inquiry into Australia’s faunal extinction crisis, Vegan Australia urged the government to move towards a vegan agricultural system to help save koalas and many other threatened species.
Read More Cruel Taiji Dolphin Drive Hunt Season Underway
Fishermen in the coastal town of Taiji, Japan have begun their controversial annual dolphin hunt. These hunts run from September to April, and involve the corralling of dolphins at sea by small boats and driving them into the confines of a cove where they are slaughtered for meat or kept alive for lucrative sale to marine parks and aquaria across the globe.
Read More The Insect Apocalypse Is Coming: Here Are Five Lessons We Must Learn
Although endangered mammals get all the headlines, a new scientific report warns that over 40 percent of the world’s insects are in danger of going extinct. If insects head toward precipitous decline and extinction, humans can’t be far behind. We need to advance our thinking about insects, their importance and what can be done to save them.
Read More What Guarding Rare Rhinos Says About Saving the Planet
The northern white rhinos have been brought to the edge of oblivion by relentless poaching and the widespread loss of suitable habitats. Rhinos in general are being killed off by the thousands each year for their horns. For the guards protecting the animals, the responsibility has a devotional quality to it that photographer Justin Mott captured in a series called “No Man’s Land,” being displayed at the Anastasia Photo gallery in New York.
Read More Acid Oceans Are Shrinking Plankton, Fuelling Faster Climate Change
Increasingly acidic oceans are putting algae at risk, threatening the foundation of the entire marine food web.
Read More Australia Will Ban Domestic Trade of Ivory and Rhino Horns in Massive Win for Biodiversity
Australia has announced it will ban the domestic trade of ivory and rhino horn, a decision that could help halt illegal global poaching and save the treasured animals for future generations.
Read More Is Science Failing the World’s Primates?
There are more than 500 known primate species, and approximately 60 percent of themare endangered, half of them critically. And yet, less than 20 percent of research was focused on conservation.
Read More Plants Around the World Are Struggling to Grow as Atmosphere Dries Up
Plants are struggling to grow around the world because atmospheric water vapor levels are declining, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.
Read More Zoos Are Outdated and Cruel – It’s Time to Make Them a Thing of the Past
Zoos do not play a significant role in the conservation of wildlife, their claims to educate are exaggerated and their research is compromised. Leading conservationist Damian Aspinall reckons it’s time to phase them out.
Read More The World’s Forest Animals Are Disappearing at a Terrifying Rate: Report
Forests around the world are losing the vertebrate animals that help to keep them alive, according to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London.
Read More Bearing Witness: The Animal Dialogues
Craig Childs’ book, ‘The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild’ offers compelling tales of creatures large and small, offering us a rare intimate glimpse into the lives of our fellow Earthlings.
Read More Opinion: How New VR Experience Can Create Empathy for Farmed Animals
A new form of animal advocacy and outreach involves the use of virtual reality, providing people an immersive experience of what it’s like to be a farm animal on an industrialized farms.
Read More Over 100,000 Species ‘Threatened’ For The First Time Because Of Hunting And Fishing
More than 100,000 species are now categorised as ‘threatened’ for the first time in history. Around 9,000 species have recently been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, bringing the total of threatened species to 105,732.
Read More What Keeping Polar Bears in Zoos and Aquariums Does to These Animals Will Shock You
Animals in captivity are known to exhibit certain stereotypical behaviors, such as pacing, associated with environmental stress, but how can you tell what’s normal and what isn’t? A group of researchers set out to answer this question by conducting a study of 11 polar bears at seven different zoos.
Read More Faunalytics Index – August 2019
Each month, our Faunalytics Index provides a round-up of data, statistics, and facts gleaned from the most recent research we’ve covered in our library. Our aim is to give you a quick overview of some of the most eye-catching and informative bits of data that could help you be more effective in your advocacy for animals.
Read More Animal Agriculture Is Major Threat to Koalas
Koalas in Australia are at risk of becoming extinct. The key threat to koala survival is land clearing, both past and continuing, and the key driver for tree-clearing is the production of animal products.
Read More Op-Ed: Are We Really so Different from Other Species?
As a biologist who documents new species and behavior in remote places, from sinkholes in Venezuela to treetops in Borneo, I see abundant signs that the future is grim. A recent United Nations report confirmed the terrible truth: One million species on Earth are threatened with extinction.
Read More Something Fishy: Toxic Plastic Pollution Is Traveling Up the Food Chain
Widespread deaths of plankton caused by microplastic would certainly disrupt the marine food web. But their consumption is already changing the health of the oceans: Microplastic has been found in middle-ocean and deep-sea fish, which, like mackerel, are prey to ocean top predators, like seals or mahi-mahi.
Read More UK Finally Bans Wild Animal Circuses After 20 Years of Protests
This week, the British Parliament passed the Wild Animals in Circus Bill, which effectively bans the use of wild animals in traveling circuses across the United Kingdom after January 2020.
Read More Spain’s Cruel Bullfights Have No Place in the 21st Century
The annual running of the bulls at Pamplona has just come to a close in Spain. Tradition and tourism are not excuses for animal cruelty. Increasingly, consumers are also beginning to shy away from travel experiences that involve animal cruelty. It’s time for Spain’s politicians – and its travel industry — to wake up to modern sensibilities on this issue, listen to Spanish citizens and help foster respect for all sentient animals by ending cruel blood fiestas and bullfights once and for all.
Read More Cigarette Butts in Soil Hamper Plant Growth, Study Suggests
Discarded cigarette butts can hamper plant growth, new research suggests. The study, led by Anglia Ruskin University, found the presence of butts in soil reduced the germination success and shoot length of clover by 27% and 28% respectively. For grass, germination success reduced by 10% and shoot length by 13%. An estimated 4.5 trillion butts are littered globally each year making them the planet’s most pervasive form of plastic pollution, the study said.
Read More ‘Unprecedented’ Decline of Plants and Animals as Global ‘Red List’ Reveals Nearly One-Third of Assessed Species Under Threat
The Red List, published Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), revealed that one third of all species the group has assessed are now under threat due to overfishing, pollution, illegal logging and trafficking, threats to water sources and habitats due to the climate crisis, and other factors, including many human activities.
Read More Animal Tracker 2019: Importance Of Animal Protection
Anyone who studies animal issues recognizes that there is a disparity between people’s attitudes on the one hand and behavior toward non-human animals on the other.
Read More Rhino Population Surges 1,000% in Tanzania Following Poaching Crackdown
There were only 15 rhinos roaming Tanzania in 2015. Today, there are 167 of the endangered animals, an increase of more than 1,000%.
Read More Double Heatwave Killed Two-Thirds of Coral in Central Indian Ocean
Back-to-back heatwaves in the central Indian Ocean killed more than two-thirds of corals in two years. But some corals were more resilient to the high sea temperatures, which could provide hope for the important habitat as the planet warms.
Read More What Would You Say to the Remaining Few North Atlantic Right Whales?
North Atlantic right whales are on the brink of extinction. Fewer than 450 are left. They never recovered from the intensive hunting of the past and their situation is dire. But it’s only too late to save them when we stop trying.
Read More Insects: The Hidden Extinction
An extensive study looks to quantify the extinction of insects around the world, and finds agriculture to be a driving factor in declining populations.
Read More Plastic, Insects, Salmon and Climate Change: The 13 Best Environmental Books of July
The Revelator has picked the best new environmentally themed books coming out this July, with titles covering everything from insects and salmon to climate change and plastic pollution. There are even a few eco-poetry collections for those of you who’d like a little art with your inspiration.
Read More Sharks Under Attack: These Animals Are Overfished and Underprotected
Sharks are in far more danger from humans than humans are from sharks, and they need our help. A new report from Greenpeace International has revealed that, in the North Atlantic Ocean, some fishing boats are catching up to four times more sharks than swordfish, despite swordfish being the boats’ official target.
Read More Yes, Animals Think and Feel. Here’s How We Know
Do animals feel empathy? Does an elephant have consciousness? Can a dog plan ahead? These are some of the questions that award-winning environmental writer Carl Safina teases out in his new book, Beyond Words: How Animals Think and Feel.
Read More Killing as a Government Service
The USDA’s Wildlife Services program slaughters millions of wild animals every year — including endangered species. It doesn’t have to.
Read More What Are Eggs For?
Apart from the fact that many birds are protected by law, why would it never occur to us to help ourselves to the eggs of a blue tit or a crow, a chaffinch or a jay, or any of the birds whose antics give us so much pleasure in our gardens or on our window sills? Well it’s obvious, isn’t it? These birds need their eggs. It would be unforgivable to take their eggs. We all know that and we’d never dream of it. So what’s different about hens?
Read More Should Zoos Exist?
The idea that keeping animals in captivity is morally acceptable has long been questioned by those who argue that zoos infringe upon animals’ freedom. In recent years, an increase in research on the ethics of captivity has helped to dispel the misconception that critics of zoos are simply anthropomorphizing the animals they say they’re trying to help.
Read More Good News From Iceland: No Whaling This Season
Good news in our work means animals thrive and we therefore celebrate it. That’s how it was for me this morning when I woke up to the report that there will be no whaling in Iceland this summer. Something my colleagues at Humane Society International and I have fought since Iceland resumed whaling in 2003.
Read More Ireland Will Ban Fur Farms, Saving Thousands of Minks!
Minks are the most common animals to be farmed for fur. Unfortunately, they are subjected to terrifying lives of misery. But fortunately, people are realizing that such cruelty cannot go on. The Czech Republic banned fur farms, Los Angeles banned fur, and big fashion houses like Coach and Chanel have also gone fur free! Other places that have put fur bans into place include San Francisco, India, Sao Paolo, and more. Now, Ireland is joining the list!
Read More Bees Kept for Honey Are Killing Wild Species by Spreading Disease, Study Suggests
Land degradation and the proliferation of pesticides on crops is already known have a catastrophic effect on global bee populations, but the spread of disease from commercial beehives could be the third key driver of decline
Read More Why Isn’t Honey Vegan?
As you journey into adopting a vegan lifestyle or continue your plant-based lifestyle, you may have come across another vegan that has chosen to not eat honey. This may have made you think, “Isn’t honey OK for humans to eat, as it is not hurting a bee?” Well, we have some facts about bees, their honey, and the important role they play on our earth.
Read MoreHow Social Media Supports Animal Cruelty and the Illegal Pet Trade
Images of chimpanzees and other species appear cute, but they may actually depict animals in dangerous situations. Here’s how to tell what’s safe to share — and how that helps conservation.
Read MoreExhausted Polar Bear Wanders Into Siberian City
A starving polar bear has strayed hundreds of kilometers from its natural Arctic habitat and wandered, exhausted, into the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk in northern Siberia. Climate change has been damaging polar bears’ sea-ice habitats and forced them to scavenge more for food on land, bringing them into contact with people and inhabited areas.
Read MoreDeforested Areas Bleed Heat to Nearby Forests, Drive Local Extinctions
Areas cleared of forests bleed heat to neighboring forests, and this fuels increases in temperatures there, new research has found. Average temperatures in forests around the world are already rising because of climate change; this leaked heat exacerbates the problem and accelerates local extinctions of forest-dwelling species.
Read MoreArtifishal: New Film Asks, Have We Reached the End of Wild?
That salmon sitting in your neighborhood grocery store’s fish counter won’t look the same to you after watching Artifishal, a new film from Patagonia. Artifishal looks specifically at how fish hatcheries and fish farms threaten wild salmon populations, which in turn has ecosystem-wide effects — all because of our desire to eat these culturally significant species.
Read MoreIndian High Court Declares Animals Legal Persons Entitled to Justice
The High Court of Punjab and Haryana has ordered that animals are now to be considered legal persons in the Indian state of Haryana. This means that animals in the state may no longer be treated as “objects” or “property” and are “entitled to justice.”
Read MoreIn the Fight Against Climate Change, Humans and Wildlife Are Allies
Climate change is accelerating at a breakneck pace, already affecting about half of all threatened mammal species and a quarter of threatened birds. And according to a study published in Science last year, if nothing is done to curb our carbon emissions, nearly 50 percent of the planet’s insects, which make up the foundation of food webs all over the globe, could disappear by the end of the century.
Read MoreCanada Just Banned Whale and Dolphin Captivity
Landmark legislation – bill S-203 – passed through Canada’s Senate banning all whale and dolphin captivity for entertainment.
Read MoreExtinction Emergency – We Need Action Right Now to Save New Zealand Dolphins
Human activities are pushing some marine species towards extinction, including some of the smallest dolphins in the world. Collectively known as New Zealand dolphins, Hector’s and Māui dolphins live only around the coast of New Zealand and they are dying in fishing nets at a rate that will see them extinct if we don’t change our behaviour around them and remove the destructive fishing nets from their home.
Read More Meet the Animal Rights Activists Facing Prison Time for Rescuing Ducks, Piglets from Factory Farms
Nearly 100 animal rights activists were freed today, after being arrested by police in riot gear for carrying out a rescue mission and protest at the Reichardt Duck Farm in Petaluma, California, which they accuse of engaging in animal torture.
Read MoreAnimals Granted Same Rights as People, Indian Court Rules
Animals living in the North Indian state now have the “corresponding rights, duties, and liabilities of a living person” thanks to the new animal protection law.
Read MoreNevada Officially Bans Animal Testing for Cosmetics
The Nevada Cruelty Free Cosmetics Act was signed into law, making Nevada the second state after California to ban cosmetic animal testing.
Read More10 States Now Encourage Adoption of Research Dogs into Loving Homes
It is a bleak life for the approximately 60,000 dogs and 20,000 cats used in testing and research in U.S. laboratories each year. In March, we revealed the sad plight of some of these animals when we did an undercover investigation at a contract laboratory in Michigan that was testing pesticides, drugs, dental implants and more on beagles and hounds.
Read MoreElephant Poaching Declines in Africa, but 15,000 Still Illegally Killed Each Year
Even though there has been notable progress, at current poaching rates elephants are still in danger of becoming virtually extinct on the continent.
Read MoreChernobyl Has Become an ‘Accidental Wildlife Sanctuary’ Thriving with Life
In the 30+ years since the disaster zone was evacuated, rare and endangered animals are flourishing. What may be a Zone of Alienation for humans has become an ironic haven for animals. And it begs the question: What if in the end, our dystopian nightmare becomes a dream come true for the rest of nature?
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