Christine Ann Dorchak, Esq, is a woman on a mission to end the so-called sport of greyhound racing worldwide. Ms Dorchak is president and general counsel of GREY2K USA, an organization that was set up to campaign against dog racing and rescue the animals trapped in the cruel enterprise. Greyhound racing originated in the USA over a century ago and spread to different parts of the world, mostly white Anglophone countries. While supporters claim it...
A low, flat wetland near Ely in Cambridgeshire, eastern England, has been named the U.K.’s 23rd dragonfly hot spot by the British Dragonfly Society, the BBC reported. Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve is also the first National Trust reserve to be named a dragonfly hot spot. In May, the reserve marked 125 years of being cared for by the trust. It has been recognized for its continuing conservation efforts to create ideal conditions for the...
The greyhound toll at racetracks in the U.K. rose last year for the first time since records began to be kept seven years ago, leading to renewed calls to ban the alleged sport, The Independent newspaper reported. A total of 109 dogs died at the U.K.’s 20 official tracks, the paper said, quoting statistics from the Greyhound Board of Great Britain. An additional 427, or 7.2% of the known racing population, died away from the...
With the population of pets and livestock around the world on the rise, the global veterinary diagnostics market is set to witness a boom, according to MarketsandMarkets, recognized by Forbes as one of America’s best management consulting firms. The size of the global market for veterinary diagnostics in revenue terms was estimated at $3.3 billion, or Rs27,390 crore, in 2023. It is poised to rise to $5.0 billion, or Rs41,500 crore, by 2029 at a...
A total of 459 animals were adopted and are now at what, hopefully, will be their forever homes at a two-day “mega pet adoption” event in downtown Jacksonville, Florida, USA, on Friday and Saturday, according to a report on FirstCoastNews.com. Eleven shelters collaborated for the event, bringing animals from across northeast Florida to the Petco Love ‘Mega Pet Adoption’ camp at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds, the first time in nearly five years the event was held....
Last week TheSnout.in reported the encouraging story of how the Iberian lynx has made a comeback from the brink of extinction. Now, halfway around the world in Southeast Asia, the Bornean elephant, the world’s smallest, has been assessed as “endangered”, with barely 1,000 individuals remaining in the wild as human activities in its habitat rise rapidly, according to the latest update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species. This...
Izzo, a therapy dog who worked with swimmers at the U.S. Olympic trials earlier this month and was named honorary member of the team heading to Paris for the Summer Olympics next month, has died, WTHR Channel 13, NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana, reported. The ten-and-a-half-year-old Labrador-husky mix was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer before the trials and given just a few weeks to live, according to The Washington Post. For the past eight years,...
Best Friends Animal Society, an animal welfare organization working to end by next year the killing of dogs and cats in American shelters, has unveiled its “most ambitious campaign”, ‘Bring Love Home’. The campaign aims to inspire pet lovers across the country to adopt pets by emphasizing all the positive contributions that rescued pets bring to homes, “at a time when Americans need love, comfort, fun, and zoomies more than ever”, the organization said in...
The Iberian lynx, once the world’s most endangered cat, has made a remarkable recovery from the brink of extinction, thanks to extensive and coordinated conservation efforts in Spain and Portugal, The Associated Press reported. In the early 2000s, the population of the lynx, scientific name Lynx pardinus, had dwindled to 62 mature individuals in the wild. Habitat loss, a precipitous decline in the population of European rabbits, their primary prey, from disease, and expanding human...
In what may yet come to be considered the rescue of the year, Oceanografic de Valencia, Georgia Aquarium, and SeaWorld collaborated with Kharkiv’s NEMO Dolphinarium to carry out a heroic evacuation from the embattled industrial city in northeast Ukraine. Two beluga whales, Plombir and Miranda, were rescued from Kharkiv and transported to the Oceanografic aquarium in Valencia, Spain. The complex, high-risk operation was necessitated by the growing threat to the city from Russian artillery fire,...
