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World Bee Day acknowledges pollinators who keep the world alive

May 20, 20246 min

Today is World Bee Day, a day to acknowledge the role that bees and other pollinators play in keeping the ecosystem humming and to focus on the importance of preserving honey bees and all other pollinators. It was on May 20 that pioneering beekeeper Anton Janša was born in Slovenia in 1734. Beekeeping is taken so seriously in the tiny Balkan republic that the country’s unofficial motto is “Land of the Good Beekeepers”. Slovenia produces...

by Staff Reporter

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ASPCA says U.S. House Farm Bill threatens local animal welfare laws

May 18, 20246 min

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has denounced the animal-related provisions in the $1.5 trillion Farm Bill unveiled by the U.S. House Agriculture Committee, which would directly affect millions of farm animals, dogs, cats, and horses. The ASPCA said in a press statement that the draft bill includes dangerous provisions that would overturn existing state and local animal welfare laws, with disastrous consequences for farm animals and higher-welfare farmers. Furthermore, it...

by Staff Reporter

All About Pets Curious Tales

5 tips to help your pet weather the summer

May 1, 20246 min

Thanks in no small measure to human intervention in the form of ‘development’, as human beings like to characterize it, temperatures are soaring across the globe, more so in the Indian subcontinent, where the tropical summers take a toll of body and mind even at the best of times. This year, with the India Meteorological Department predicting more heat-wave days than normal, the situation is going from bad to worse. And suffering along with the...

by Jennifer Browning

Wild & Wonderful

5 ways to help nature, communities cope with climate threats

April 21, 20247 min

The United States is one of 17 countries that scientists call megadiverse—places that harbour the majority of Earth’s plant and animal species, along with high numbers of species found nowhere else. Yet, in the U.S., many of these plants and animals face multiple threats, including from a changing climate that can damage habitats and ecosystems. To protect these special places, conservation choices made today, such as what areas to protect and how to care for...

by Staff Reporter

Curious Tales

Go forth and vote, West Bengal’s animal mascots ‘Gendu’, ‘Mohanbao’, ‘Baghu’ tell citizens

April 17, 20245 min

India’s general election, the world’s biggest festival of democracy in action, begins this week. The mammoth exercise of 950 million voters selecting the country’s next government is being conducted in seven phases starting on Friday and ending on June 1, with the results to be declared on June 4. While animals cannot vote in elections, authorities in the crucial state of West Bengal, which sends 42 members to the 543-member Lok Sabha, or House of...

by Noorulain Sayed

All About Pets Wild & Wonderful

Does a total solar eclipse trigger abnormal activity in animals, birds?

April 8, 20246 min

Mexico and parts of North America are set to witness a total solar eclipse today. The total eclipse will be seen across Mexico, 15 states of the USA, and a part of eastern Canada. The rest of the North American continent will see a partial solar eclipse. The rare event comes to pass when the sun, moon and earth align. When the moon passes between the sun and the earth, it temporarily blocks the sun’s...

by A Correspondent

Curious Tales Features

Are you fearful? Animals may be able to ‘smell’ it

March 9, 20245 min

Picture this. A human goes on a trek somewhere in a forested area and suddenly comes face to face with a bear. In nine out of 10 cases, the human being will freeze or flee. As animal behaviour experts repeatedly caution, there are two things one must never do in front of animals. One should not in any way make them feel threatened, and one must not show fear. Because, in either case, the animal...

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