MOSCOW — More than 300,000 people have signed a petition calling for a Russian train conductor to lose her job after she threw a pet cat off a train, believing it was a stray. The white and ginger tom cat, known as Twix, escaped from his carrier on a train traveling between Yekaterinburg and St. … Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya has embarked on its biggest rhino relocation project and began the difficult work Tuesday of tracking, darting and moving 21 of the critically endangered beasts, which can each weigh over a ton, to a new home. A previous attempt at moving rhinos in the East African nation was a disaster in … Read more
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But when Kimball asked Guinness about re-verifying Spike, these vet estimates were no longer sufficient evidence. One way to estimate the age of an animal is by their teeth, something that Spike lacks, although Kimball says she still has a few loose teeth left over from Spike’s run-in with the pit bull in 2015. Without … Read more
RIO DE JANEIRO — Deforestation surged in Brazil’s Cerrado, a vast tropical savanna region, by nearly 45% in 2023 compared to 2022, according to full-December data released Friday by the government’s monitoring agency. The National Institute for Space Research reported that 7,852 square kilometers (3,000 square miles) of vegetation had been torn down in the … Read more
MEXICO CITY — A campaign to save Benito the giraffe from extreme temperatures and a small enclosure in Mexico’s arid northern border city of Ciudad Juarez has finally paid off, with officials promising to move him to a more spacious animal park 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) to the south. Benito arrived in Ciudad Juarez, which … Read more
With a deep freeze approaching, an animal shelter in Krakow, Poland, appealed to the public to adopt or at least temporarily shelter some of its dogs until the dangerous cold spell passes WARSAW, Poland — With a deep freeze approaching, an animal shelter in Krakow sent out an urgent appeal to people to adopt or … Read more
For Gastón Paladini, pork is a family affair. In 1923, his great-grandfather Don Juan Paladini moved from Italy to Santa Fe, Argentina, where he started putting a South American twist on classic Italian sausage recipes. Eventually, Don Juan’s company became one of Argentina’s largest meat producers. It still bears the family name: Paladini. But in … Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya — Police in Kenya on Monday recovered the body of a man believed to have been attacked by a lion while he was riding a motorcycle near a national reserve in the south of the country. Police were notified by community members of an abandoned motorcycle along a road near the Marere forested … Read more
Extinction isn’t a relic of humanity’s more barbaric past. It’s happening now. In 2023, U.S. scientists declared 21 species officially extinct. Included on the shameful list are birds, mussels, fish, and a mammal. Separately, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a conservation organization that monitors global species populations, determined the Java Stingaree (a … Read more
If you are planning to buy your donkey meat on Amazon this Christmas, you may have to look elsewhere. The world’s largest online retailer says it has stopped selling edible donkey in California, WIRED has learned. Amazon’s new policy kicked in after months of negotiations with the Center for Contemporary Equine Studies, a nonprofit organization … Read more