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From bees and butterflies to birds and badgers, much of Britain’s wildlife is in disturbing decline resulting from development, climate change, pesticides and pollution. And then there’s the roadkill.
The government must soon determine a target population size for the animals and shift into population management, lest the culling programme become an extermination plan.
As city customs marks international recognition of centre to train canines to sniff out likes of drugs and explosives, other services wait for animals.
Greater monitoring needed after poaching traps found in city countryside, posing a cruel threat to animals and people. Stiffer fines could work but only if offenders think they will be caught
Muhammad Danial Sukirman was sentenced to 20 days’ jail for causing ‘unnecessary pain and suffering’ to the felines by failing to provide adequate food and water.
Japanese authorities have issued a warning for hikers and others to stay alert for bears emerging from hibernation.
Footage posted by social media users showed a saddled white horse seemingly covered in blood running through the street alongside another, black one.
The City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong’s third original musical, Shark Symphony features a dazzling range of diverse performances to tell a story based on sustainability and shark’s fin soup.
The man went on a cat-killing spree between December 2022 and September 2023 due to a deep hatred of the animal that he began harbouring after other cats scratched his car.
At least 39 dogs and two cats found after police and SPCA raid on flat in Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei
Cows and goats – previously thought not susceptible – have joined the list of infected animals, and a US farmworker has caught the disease after exposure to cattle.
Scientist said results offered hope of stopping disease transmission to people: ‘The biocontrol method is based on findings from nature and does not require medical interventions for humans, such as vaccines and specific treatment’.
A court in China has ordered the employee of a badminton court, who cared for a stray cat, to pay compensation to a player who was badly injured when the feline got in his way.
Hong Kong artist Kingsley Ng is asking pet owners to donate their animals’ fur so it can be made into giant balls for his exhibition at the Centre for Heritage Arts and Textile at The Mills in Tsuen Wan.
A woman in China has gone viral because of her conventional good looks and her decision to work as a pig farmer.
India outlawed the practice of forcing bears to dance for entertainment in 1972. Decades later, animal-rights groups thought they’d rescued the last one being held in captivity. But it turns out they were wrong.
Fatou was born in the wild and has lived at the Berlin Zoo since 1959.
The BBC’s wildlife team strikes gold again with Mammals, a documentary series that marvels at some of the planet’s famous and less mentioned animals, from wolves to snow leopards to Singapore’s otters.
Eight-year-old Labrador retriever, the equivalent of 60 in human age, began her tour of duty at Narita and Haneda airports in 2017.
China’s first Corgi police dog has made its public debut by displaying excellent bomb-detection skills which made the canine go viral online.
Man has become city’s first human case of deadly B virus and remains in a critical condition after being admitted to hospital.
Operators hope the ship – the first built in Japan in 73 years – will revive interest in whale meat and prop up the ailing industry, which has been surviving on subsidies.
Police found dozens of dehydrated, malnourished animals covered in parasites and lesions in every room of the couple’s home.
Macaques that roam Lopburi frequently try to snatch food from humans, sometimes resulting in tussles that can leave people with scratches and other injuries.
The animal flipped the vehicle at Kafue National Park, fatally wounding an 80-year-old woman and injuring 4 others.
Cicadas, the strongest urinators in the animal kingdom, are being ravaged by a sexually transmitted disease that turns them into zombies.
When a customer accidentally left a dog cafe door ajar in China, its many four-legged “customers” thought they would do a runner and have some fun.
Officials have proposed to kill the animals in a buffer zone surrounding Nara Park that attracts thousands of visitors, who feed them rice crackers.
‘Aurora’, which imitates predator-like movements, will patrol at Alaska’s Fairbanks airport to keep birds and other animals away from planes.