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Ten lions have been found dead in a protected wildlife area in northern Tanzania. Authorities suspect the animals may have been poisoned.

Fourteen baby ostriches died at Beirut airport in Lebanon after arriving from Egypt, according to animal welfare organisation Animals Lebanon.

Indonesia is preparing to bring home five young orangutans found in a forest in eastern India, where authorities are investigating suspected wildlife trafficking.

Iceland plans to introduce a bill in February 2027 that could lead to a permanent ban on whaling. The government’s parliamentary agenda says the review will specifically consider ending whale hunting.

Police are looking for witnesses after a two-week-old miniature donkey was found mutilated and dead at an animal sanctuary in the Netherlands.

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.

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.

A police officer in the US state of Georgia has been placed on leave after a family’s young pet donkey, HeeHaw, was shot and killed in his own garden.

Thousands of people will be allowed to kill alligators for sport in the US state of Louisiana this October, under a new recreational hunting programme.

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.

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.

Turtles, a macaque and other wild animals are still being kept in poor conditions at a conservation tourist facility in Bali.

Thousands of people will be allowed to kill alligators for sport in the US state of Louisiana this October, under a new recreational hunting programme.

A young wolf was shot dead by Danish authorities after repeatedly coming close to people. Hours later, his body was placed on the grass during a press conference with Denmark’s Minister for Nature and Animal Welfare.

Four people have been arrested after 18 elephants died from cyanide poisoning in and around Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Police are still looking for a fifth suspect.

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.

Plans to build a commercial octopus farm in Gran Canaria, part of Spain's Canary Islands, have been withdrawn.

At least 20,000 pigs have died after a large fire destroyed a commercial pig barn near Simcoe, Ontario, in Canada.