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Labour reassures makeup users on testing ban
Labour is reassuring consumers that a proposed ban on cosmetics tested on animals will not strip popular makeup and beauty brands from New Zealand shelves.
Labour is reassuring consumers that a proposed ban on cosmetics tested on animals will not strip popular makeup and beauty brands from New Zealand shelves.
Two brothers who starved horses so badly they had to be shot by animal welfare officers have been jailed and banned from owning horses for five years.
Scientists and conservationists are making a last-ditch effort to block the West Australian Government's plan to extend its controversial shark cull for three years.
A bird rescue centre is caring for six giant petrels after concerned members of the public found the birds in distress.
"It is no longer the domain of the 'environmentalist', angry or otherwise to care about the plight of our wildlife, it is up to all New Zealanders."
A native falcon may have lost some of its sight and will spend weeks recovering after being shot.
Fish have feelings and intelligence on a par with other animals and deserve better consideration of their welfare - expert
Satao, one of Kenya’s largest elephants, has died after being shot by poachers using poisoned arrows.
becoming an octogenarian has only ramped up Jane Goodall’s globe-trekking schedule, because there’s far too much to be done to pause for a breather.
Two women have been jailed for 12 months over the death of their elderly neighbour, who was “literally eaten alive” by their starving dog.
Environmentalists say trees that will support a new zipline tourism attraction on the Sunshine Coast are koala habitats.
The more visitors within a five-metre radius of the koalas, the more vigilance behaviour koalas displayed, which puts them in an alert state.
The last remaining 55 of world's rarest species of dolphins could disappear within three decades if New Zealand doesn't act now, wildlife advocates say.
A Hawkes Bay farmer was ordered to pay $7000 to the SPCA and $529 in reparation following one of the worst cases of neglect an SPCA inspector said he had seen.
A man who filmed himself nailing a possum to a tree has been sentenced to prison.
Defenders of dogs, cats and rats are starting to feel that this could be their year. They've joined forces to make animal welfare an election issue for the first time.
A law change to take synthetic drugs off the shelves will be passed under urgency by tomorrow afternoon.
One of the scientists designing the testing regime for synthetic drugs says trialling novel drugs on humans without testing them on animals first is likely to be considered unethical in NZ.
Three suspects will appear in court in Kenya today after six elephants, including four juveniles, were found shot dead in a private reserve, in one of the worst poaching incidents for several years.
Much hangs on whether the Japanese Government sides with its future-focused Foreign Ministry or its inwards-looking pro-whaling fisheries agency, writes John Armstrong.
We're all a kaleidoscope of contradictions about our treatment and consumption of living creatures, writes Bob Jones.
Many's the time the dubious claim "sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind" has been used to justify some act of petty tyranny, writes Paul Thomas.
Dame Vivienne Westwood has admitted she shares bathwater with her husband.