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Eight kittens and their mother were found in a bag in a private garden in Quincy-sous-Sénart, near Paris, France.

Injured and stranded wild animals in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, are the focus of a new wildlife rescue network.

Eight cows died after a truck carrying them overturned on a bridge near Cudillero in northern Spain on Saturday. More animals were inside the...

Around 2,400 pigs have died in a fire at a farm in Iowa, United States. The fire broke out late Monday night and continued into Tuesday morning, destroying a barn near the town of Sibley.

The Dutch government plans to gradually end the keeping of dolphins in captivity, saying their natural needs cannot be met in artificial pools.

New York City is moving closer to ending its horse-drawn carriage industry. If approved, the ban would take effect in June 2028.

Sexual violence against animals in India often remains hidden, with gaps in the law and a lack of national data making it difficult to know how many animals suffer.

A shark named Bukangi remains in a canal in Busan, South Korea, more than three weeks after people first spotted her.

Hundreds of endangered tadpoles are growing up in a nursery in Long Beach, California, in the United States.

Brittany Ferries has announced that it will stop transporting live farmed animals, including young calves, on its ships between Ireland and France by September 2026.

A new international report says millions of live animals are being transported each year on old ships that were never designed to carry livestock.

Around 4,000 sheep and goats died after a cargo ship caught fire and sank off the coast of Oman.

The Dutch government plans to gradually end the keeping of dolphins in captivity, saying their natural needs cannot be met in artificial pools.

A fourth beluga whale named Osiris from Canada's closed Marineland has died only weeks after being moved to a new aquarium.

Three beluga whales have died in just eight days at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, United States. Two of them had arrived only weeks earlier from the closed Marineland park in Canada.

Injured and stranded wild animals in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, are the focus of a new wildlife rescue network.

Seven leopards, including two cubs, have been recorded on South Africa’s West Coast, where people hunted the animals out of the region generations ago.

Rescuers in Indonesia are finding orangutans with burns, severe thirst and breathing problems as fires destroy their forest homes.

Around 2,400 pigs have died in a fire at a farm in Iowa, United States. The fire broke out late Monday night and continued into Tuesday morning, destroying a barn near the town of Sibley.

A fire killed all 18,000 chickens in a barn at an organic egg farm in the Netherlands on Saturday. Firefighters could not save any of the birds.

Almost ten years after Finland's fur industry promised to stop rewarding the breeding of extremely large foxes, new images show oversized Arctic foxes still living in small wire cages on Finnish fur farms.