カテゴリー: Animals
Long-tailed macaques at risk of being killed, or laundered or re-trafficked if returned to Cambodia, animal welfare groups sayMore than a thousand Cambodian monkeys at the center of a US government investigation into wildlife trafficking are at risk of…
Police in Loei trying to determine if the animals migrated or were taken as part of a trafficking operationFor decades, Tham Pha Mak Ho temple in north-east Thailand has been home to crowds of rhesus macaques. Every morning monks feed them with rice an…
Child died and father tested positive for H5N1, prompting fears of possible person-to-person transmissionThe discovery of two cases of bird flu within the same family in Cambodia has highlighted the concern over potential human-to-human spread of the v…
Case is the country’s first known human infection with H5N1 strain since 2014, health minister saysAn 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died after being infected by a strain of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, the government says.It was the …
Campaign seeks to boost traditional Indian values and offset ‘dazzle of western civilisation’The Indian government has urged people to set aside the “western” traditions of Valentine’s Day and instead celebrate the occasion by cuddling up with the coun…
Years in the making and boasting astonishing footage, All That Breathes tells the extraordinary story of the bodybuilding brothers getting pollution-choked birds flying again. We meet its directorThere is an astonishing moment near the beginning of All…
Animal welfare groups in Malaysia and Singapore have urged consumers to not buy rabbits on an ‘impulse’ and to look into what it takes to care for themPet welfare groups in Malaysia and Singapore have warned consumers not to buy rabbits to mark lunar n…
Colony cages are larger but animal welfare campaigners say the birds are still not able to behave naturallyBattery cages for layer hens will become illegal in New Zealand from 2023 but animal welfare campaigners are urging the government to scrap the r…
Tuan Tuan, gifted to Taiwan 14 years ago when relations were warmer, allowed to ‘continue to sleep’ after being anaesthetisedA panda given to Taiwan by China 14 years ago as a symbol of what were then warmer ties died on Saturday, after suffering seizu…
Prosecutor says official from Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries was arrested en route to a conference on protecting endangered speciesEight people in the US have been charged with smuggling endangered monkeys, including a Cambodian wildli…
After neutering services were shut down during the pandemic, the population of stray dogs roaming the Pacific country has soaredAmid the iconic sounds of Fiji – the rolling of the ocean, a church choir – is an unexpected and unwelcome noise: the insist…
Former president Moon Jae-in says he will give up gift of Pungsan dogs if no support from Yoon Suk-yeolSouth Korea’s former president Moon Jae-in has said he plans to give up a pair of dogs sent by the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, as a gift after …
Assam, Nagaland and Manipur officials also confiscate catapults and nets to ensure birds can recuperateOfficials in north-east India have banned the use of guns and airguns and confiscated catapults and nets in an effort to safeguard the small Amur fal…
Bua Noi has spent decades in a cage in a decaying Bangkok shopping mall. Her owner says is she too old to be transferred to a sanctuary but activists disagreeHolding a fist full of green beans, Bua Noi stares through the iron bars and glass of her home…
Body of 54-year-old worker found in stomach of 7-metre snake on island of SumatraA woman was found dead in the stomach of a 7-metre python at a rubber plantation where she worked in Indonesia, according to local reports.The woman, identified as Jahrah,…