As expected, Representatives Abbott and Campbell have introduced an "exotic animal" bill in Indiana. It is House Bill 1200 and the text was just introduced January 13. Similar bills have been introduced for the last few years and have not passed.
The American Anti-Vivisection Society and the Avian Welfare Coalition sued the USDA in an attempt to compel the agency to either issue bird handling standards or apply general standards for the humane treatment of animals to birds.
Just days after the terrible tragedy at the Krefeld Zoo blaze, PETA pushes their anti-zoo agenda, once again making it well known that PETA wants to kill off all zoo’s.
Police also say the graphic footage shared via PETA's YouTube page may have been staged and captured by hidden cameras planted at the facility following multiple break-ins.
Just after a month since the photographing of a wild white tiger had been spotted, India’s plan to reintroduce white tigers back into the wild moves forward.
Life in the wild harbors the risk of predation, food shortages, harsh climates, and intense competition. Zoo animals, by contrast, are protected from these dangers. UZH researchers were part of an international team that studied over 50 mammalian species to determine whether the animals live longer in zoos than in the wild.
To better understand Dr. Elizabeth Jane Goldentyer, (Betty) one should acquaint themselves with a little of her past. Now at 63 years old, Dr. Goldentyer was promoted to Deputy Director of Animal Care within USDA/APHIS, in July 2017. The USDA quietly promoted her in July 2017 but did not make it publically known until September 25, 2017.
A rapidly urbanizing world means that people are less likely to live near fields or woods, and an increase in scheduled activities means less time to wander through vacant lots. Thus “managed” encounters with nature, like visits to zoos and aquariums, provide an increasingly important opportunity for contact with other species.
The white tiger now has a foot-hold in the wild. Over the years there has been many false propaganda ideas that white tigers are only a man-made version of the regular color Bengal tiger.
Pennsylvania Senate Bill 928 is like many of the "Traveling Animal Act" bans we have seen proposed this year, but it manages to go even further. This bill is more than a ban on travel with animals which would include educational outreach programs.
A bill that makes animal cruelty , (animal crushing) a federal felony was unanimously passed in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. The bipartisan Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, which was introduced by Reps. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., and Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., would outlaw a form of animal abuse known as “crushing,” where people maim and torture animals.
The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a summary judgment of the Northern District Court of California holding that a Bengal tiger is not an “individual” within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).