Animal rights

Social media-famous Border Collie allegedly eaten after being stolen in China

Travel blogger Guo gained popularity on the Chinese social media app Douyin when he began documenting his adventures with his dog, eight-year-old Chutou.

Chutou the dog.
CUSTOMERS WAIT to be served at a butchers stall in Smithfield Market, the UK’s largest wholesale meat market in London, Britain, November 19, 2021.

UK animal welfare bill forcing divulging of kosher, halal meat passes first reading

Stray dogs in Israel

Animal rights organization urges Nature and Parks Authority to cease shooting of stray dogs

 Crocodile, close up view.

Animal rights orgs. hit out at 'ridiculous' claim crocodiles were culled over terrorism fears


Five arrested for illegally abusing and hunting a porcupine

When Border Patrol officers and volunteers searched the suspicious backpack in the backseat of their car, they found the lifeless porcupine.

The porcupine, taken from the backpack, November 14, 2020.

No transparency on Defense Ministry animal testing since 2010 - committee

The meeting was concluded by discussing the law, the purpose of which was originally to create oversight and minimize the suffering of animals.

Soldiers in the IDF's Oketz unit hugging a dog during a break, photo taken by Topaz Luk from the IDF spokesperson's unit

Tal Gilboa's lifelong mission: Fighting for animal rights

Tal Gilboa is willing to go to great lengths for a cause she believes in

Tal Gilboa greets a bovine friend at a dairy farm in Kibbutz Givat Chaim Meuchad

Israel set to be first nation to ban the fur trade

Interior and Environmental Affairs Committee chair MK Miki Haimovich supported this plan, and said the committee would ensure it was enforced.

Illustrative photo of a man wearing and holding a shtreimel, a fur hat

Renewing the ancient New Year for animals with a vegan spin

The focal points of the renewed celebration of the New Year For Animals are three major events which will be held online in the US, UK and Israel.

Cow illustrative

Hundreds of African frogs found illegally kept in shoe store

The amphibians were being kept for trade in a store posing as a cobbler.

Amphibians found illegally kept for trade by the Nature and Parks Authority, August 9, 2020

Animal rights activists demand release of injured turkeys from farm

Approximately 9 million turkeys are killed annually in the country out of approximately 630 million killed globally.

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Livestock shipments to Israel decrease by 16%

The state comptroller's report in May revealed that the environment on these shipments were, indeed, frightful, with severely unhygienic conditions.

livestock

Former IDF chief medical officer pro animal experimentation

Hundreds of controversial cases of animal experimentation in the IDF have recently been exposed by Ynet and may shed a light on the covert capabilities that the IDF is currently developing.

Soldiers in the IDF's Oketz unit hugging a dog during a break, photo taken by Topaz Luk from the IDF spokesperson's unit

SPCA to subsidize spaying, neutering of kittens for remainder of 2020

Israel has an estimated stray cat population of over two million. Due to insufficient spaying and neutering policies, tens of thousands of kittens are born each year and often suffer on the street.

Cats [illustrative].