animal cruelty
Videos show ‘Water for Elephants’ star abused during 2005 training
Outlawed bear baiting continues in Pakistan’s Punjab
Video of US wild horse capture branded animal cruelty by activists
Spanish greyhounds’ hunting agony
A relatively unknown hunting practice has started to tarnish the reputation of the Iberian Peninsula. Each year, thousands of "galgos" - the name given to the greyhounds used by Spanish hunters - suffer an agonising death for not bringing back enough game. Read more...
Smuggler's rare bird collection suffocates in hold of plane
More than a thousand rare birds have been intercepted by customs officers at Bangladesh’s Hazrat Shahjalal international airport in Dhaka after a trafficker attempted to smuggle them into Pakistan. Our Observer witnessed the scene. Read more…
Dog-cruelty video sparks criminal investigation
Is there an ethical way to turn crocodiles into handbags?
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has released footage of reptiles being skinned alive in Indonesia in a bid to discredit the luxury leather industry. One of our Observers, who works at a crocodile farm in Australia, tells us what the industry standards ought to be. Read more...
Pet dogs in Japan – love them and leave them… in a gas chamber
Japan's pets are the most spoilt in the world. They wear clothes, eat in restaurants, bathe in spas. But what happens to the two percent that find themselves homeless? Re-homing is unheard of in Japan, where only the latest creation (often inbred) will do. The answer, revealed in this video, is to gas them, en masse. Read more and watch the clip...
Charal slaughterhouses are awful... But no more than others
Charal's slogan, « With us, you'll always love meat », doesn't go down well with animal-rights agroup L214. They have accused the No.1 French meat producer of cruelty to animals and not respecting bovine slaughter regulations. To prove their point, one of its members penetrated a Charal slaughterhouse undercover and filmed what he saw. Read more and watch the video...
