A Waikato piggery is facing cruelty charges after 25 pigs were left injured in the alleged overcrowded site, while three had to be put down.

COMMENT: As with all good stories there are two sides. In this case there is the duck and the hunter. I am interested in the duck's side, writes Lynley Tulloch.

Top travel website TripAdvisor has been accused of "profiting from the world's cruelest animal attractions" by an international animal welfare charity.

A farmhand did not face animal cruelty charges because a council wrongly said drowning possums was a humane way to kill them.

COMMENT: Catriona MacLennan asks, why does NZ not ban tethering? An outright ban would send a clear message about how goat welfare can best be protected.

Caged Chicken Farms - and Auckland's skyline.

Warning: Content may disturb. Animal advocacy activists have released shocking undercover footage from a colony egg farm that shows dead hens rotting in their cages and dying hens trapped beneath perches.

Photos posted on Facebook generate debate about animals' welfare at annual Auckland event.

COMMENT: Instead of banning hen cages altogether, the Govt decided that battery cages would be replaced by "colony" or "enriched" cages, writes Catriona MacLennan. This is nonsense.

Richard Robinson visited the sick and injured turtles being rehabilitated at Auckland’s Kelly Tarlton’s.

Nandi's deportation to NZ has been cleverly packaged, but the truth is that Nandi will leave her home and her family to become yet another spectacle for the public to gawp at, writes Mandy Carter.

A video of free range chooks streaming out of their barn at a Whangarei egg producer has now gone intergalactic after Star Trek actor George Takei linked it to his 9.5 million followers on Facebook. Source: Otaika Valley Free Range Eggs NZ

Animal rights groups are aghast this country is again being promoted as a premier destination for enthusiasts.

Trophy hunting is an industry that reportedly pumps tens of millions of dollars into the New Zealand economy each year.

Digby Livingston and Stephen Franks suggest the way to protect indigenous species is to farm them.

A social media campaign today saw Countdown bombarded with pleas from consumers to stop stocking caged eggs.

Theresa believes it our duty to support suppliers committed to the safe treatment of farm animals.

Conservationists in Spain will help save the endangered Iberian lynx after a technology consortium came to an agreement with regional officials.

Temba, a male chimp at Wellington Zoo, died on Saturday night after a fight with the alpha male of the group.

Pandas don't want no scrubs. They have a higher success rate of having cubs if they are coupled with a bear they love.

Auckland Airport is giving away $120,000 to Kiwi charities as part of its 12 Days of Christmas initiative.

A kiwi destroying a robin nest and causing the death of the chicks in it has been caught on camera by a Victoria University of Wellington researcher. The footage, taken at Zealandia over two consecutive nights, shows a little spotted kiwi pushing the robin nest down a slope, pecking the chicks, and returning the next night to tear the nest apart. Supplied/Victoria University

Photos reveal prince's heartbreak at the suffering of animals in South Africa.

'Is our dairy industry built on cruelty?" That was the question posed by TVNZ's Sunday programme which broadcast evidence covertly filmed by FarmWatch and Safe activists.

The origin of some of our most nutritious food does not bear thinking about. Milk, eggs, even some fruit, are nutrients intended for the young of other species.

MPI says an investigation into the alleged mistreatment of bobby calves had begun before news broke.