The Herald Sun in Australia reports Victorian gun group pushing for the right to shoot stray cats. Hunters would be allowed to shoot cats that stray from houses on to public land under a controversial plan being pushed by a Victorian … Continue reading
The media is barred from filming it. Here’s The Guardian‘s brief report. Link
Animal welfare groups have accused the Australian government of being “trigger happy” over plans to shoot 6,000 camels that invaded an outback town in search of water. The animals have caused chaos in the Northern Territory town of Docker River, … Continue reading
Of the hundreds of photos from Abu Ghraib obtained by the Washington Post, only a representative handful was ever released. When a reporter on the original Abu Ghraib story visited my journalism class at Princeton, he showed us some of … Continue reading
Primate scientists are criticizing a decision at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France, to kill a research colony of Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana) last month because the animals were infected with the herpes B virus. The monkeys, at the … Continue reading
A white stag, thought to be the only one in Britain, has been shot and beheaded by poachers. The decapitated 300lb carcass of the animal was found strung up from a tree. It is thought that its head and antlers … Continue reading
