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A controversial wolf cull in B.C. has been extended for another five years, according to the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.  The province's "aerial wolf reduction program" was quietly renewed…

The animal lovers of Hong Kong are fighting back against a governmental plan to kill approximately 2,000 hamsters and other small animals. Fed up with what are sometimes criticized as illogical and punitive pandemic measures,…

The announcement by the Hong Kong government on Tuesday was met with outrage by pet owners and animals rights advocates, with several online petitions urging authorities to reconsider.It comes after an emerging cluster linked to the Little…

<!-- -->Dozens of pet shops were asked to close, while import and sale of small mammals is suspended.Hong Kong: A mass hamster cull in Hong Kong sparked fears among animal welfare groups on Wednesday that panicky people would abandon…

Hong Kong will cull more than 2,000 hamsters and ban the import of small animals after a pet shop worker, a customer and at least 11 hamsters tested positive for the Delta variant of the coronavirus.Officials said on Tuesday that it was not…

HONG KONG: Hong Kong authorities said Tuesday that they will cull some 2,000 small animals, including hamsters after several of the rodents tested positive for the virus at a pet store where an infected employee was working. The city will…

Ashley Giles, managing director of England men’s cricket, has apologised for the manner of the team’s Ashes defeat but warned a mass clearout at the top will not solve deeper rooted issues.Giles says the England and Wales Cricket Board will…

In Denmark, they’re calling it “minkgate.”A government decision last year to cull Denmark’s herd of 17 million minks for fear that infected animals could transmit the coronavirus to humans prompted a huge outcry in a country that had been…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark: A parliamentary commission is to grill Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, Thursday (Dec 9) over her government's illegal decision last year to cull all farmed minks nationwide over fears of a new coronavirus…

The government is expected to back down today in a row over visas for foreign butchers to prevent a mass cull of British pigs.A shortage of butchers at industrial slaughterhouses has left farmers with too many pigs on their…