By: Elizabeth Claire Alberts/The Dodo “They’re hitting the juveniles that aren’t even old enough to reproduce.” Bluefin tuna. If you’re sitting in a sushi restaurant and you see this fish on the menu, you may want to think twice about ordering it. After all, the bluefin tuna — like African lions and elephants and Bornean orangutans — is teetering on the brink of…
Monkey Forced To ‘Dance’ On Streets Has No Idea She’s About To Be Free
By: Elizabeth Claire Alberts/The Dodo The day the macaque monkey was rescued, she was wearing a frilly, pink dress and had a metal chain locked around her neck. The monkey’s handlers had stationed themselves outside of a primary school in Bogor, Indonesia, a city south of Jakarta. Every time people walked by, the handlers yanked and pulled…
British Columbia To Ban Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunting
By: GoodNewsNetwork Starting on November 30th, grizzly bear trophy hunting will be banned in the Canadian province of British Columbia. “This action is supported by the vast majority of people across our province,” said the Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Minister Doug Donaldson. “By bringing trophy hunting of grizzlies to an end, we’re delivering…
Shelter Puppy With Unusually Large Head Sparks DNA Debate
By: Dina Fantegrossi/I Heart Dogs When a litter of four stray puppies arrived at the Humane Society of Silicon Valley (HSSV) in June, the staff instantly noticed that one of the pups was not like the others. While his three littermates bore the characteristics of mini Border Collie mixes, the pooch they named “Bighead” had short, chubby…
Baby Dolphin Dies After Beachgoers Pass It Around For Photos
By: Kristy Hamilton/IFL Science No selfie is worth an animal’s life. This should go without saying, yet again and again, beachgoers can’t resist touching stranded sea creatures when they are at their most vulnerable. This time, a baby dolphin died on a beach in Spain over the weekend, after the stranded calf was spotted struggling in the shallows and a…
Young Whale Dies After Wasting Away At Controversial Marine Park
By: Elizabeth Claire Alberts/The Dodo “Marineland tried to hide it. They won’t announce whale deaths unless we bust them in the act.” Gia, a young beluga whale, was only 3 years old when she died in a small concrete pool. But her death, according to animal welfare advocates, could have easily been avoided. Gia was born at…
Lion Gives Birth Just 12 Hours After Getting Saved From Nightmare Zoo
By: Sarah V Schweig/The Dodo “This is a true sign that she feels safe.” When rescuers arrived at the war-torn ruins of a zoo in Aleppo, Syria, to save the last surviving animals there, they rushed to get the animals loaded into crates and back across borders to sanctuaries in Turkey and Jordan. And it turns out that,…
This Wolf Family Is About To Be Killed For Feeding Their Babies
By: Lily Feinn/The Dodo Two more gray wolves will face an untimely end in the Pacific Northwest this summer, dropping pack numbers after years of careful conservation. Oregon Dept Fish & Wildlife to kill up to 2 wolves of Harl Butte family in response to depredations on public lands https://t.co/FjaP9Lq6IA pic.twitter.com/pDEROBl09q — NY Wolf Center (@nywolforg)…
These ‘Puppies Of The Sea’ Are Being Killed In The Worst Way
By: Shayla Smith/The Dodo Fishermen lash out when they steal their bait — but people are fighting so hard to protect them. Diving around Port Phillip Bay in Australia has become traumatizing for recreational scuba divers. The bodies of mutilated stingrays litter the ocean floor and force divers to make a difficult decision — euthanize the beloved…