Hong Kong’s feline friends offer insight into city’s past
Busy traffic, loud noise and constant passers-by? Not a problem for these cats. Four-legged “assistants” can be found perched in certain shops across Hong Kong, keeping a nonchalant eye...
The Annual Boxing Day Hunt… Another Cruel Act against Animals to Ban!
Some traditions should stop if they were harmful to humans, animals, or plants, and one of those traditions in Boxing Day; a holiday celebrated on December the 26th, the day after Christmas. Having...
Boycott Real Leather… PETA Exposes Animals’ Suffering
It is awful that animals have to suffer, just for humans to enjoy wearing real animal skin/ real leather. Alligators, for example, are cut open, and skinned, just for humans to wear a bag made of...
What do the new Mekong species include?
Mekong, a word you might have heard of or read before. It is associated Mekong river, located in Southeast Asia. Being the world’s 12th-longest river and the 7th-longest in Asia, Mekong river...
Mexico scrambles to save world’s smallest porpoise
Mexican authorities and scientists are scrambling to save the world’s smallest porpoise, the vaquita marina, from extinction, capturing illegal “ghost” fishing nets while hoping to...
Burning ivory, waging war: world battles poaching in 2016
It was one of the most momentous events in the battle against poaching: 11 giant pyres of elephant tusks going up in flames in Kenya as the world looked on. The largest-ever destruction of ivory,...
Anti-fur activists bare all in Barcelona
Animal rights defenders stripped down Sunday in the Spanish tourist hub of Barcelona to draw attention to the alleged cruelty of the fur industry. Dozens of activists, naked, doused in fake blood...
Giraffes ‘threatened with extinction’
Wild giraffe numbers have plummeted by 40 percent in the last three decades, and the species is now “vulnerable” to extinction, a top conservation body warned today. The population of...
