Fine print allows shark finning to continue
It was the kind of photo opportunity Cabinet ministers dream of.
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Eat horse meat says Princess
Princess Anne has suggested people in Britain should consider eating horse meat as it would help to improve the welfare of the animals.
Man's best friend & employee
Dogs may be man's best friend but, on many New Zealand farms, they are also often their best employees.
Kea joins list of threatened birds
Several of New Zealand's most cherished birds - among them the kea and two types of albatross - have been shifted to a more serious conservation status following a national survey.
Dog suffers due to cheap collar
'Clearly this is not rocket science.' The SPCA is shocked by an Otara woman's cruelty in neglecting to change her dog's collar, causing it a serious neck wound.
Dog locked in kennel chews off own foot
A farmer has been convicted of ill-treating an animal after his dogs were locked in filthy kennels so long one chewed off its own foot.
Shark finning banned in NZ waters
Shark finning will be banned in New Zealand waters under a government proposal announced today.
SPCA releases 2013 List of Shame
Black swans run over by a boat, a pet sheep bashed and set on fire, and fowl found stuffed in a chest of drawers have topped the SPCA's 2013 List of Shame.
Horse owner calls for care tonight
The owner of a horse that lost litres of blood after being frightened by the neighbours' fireworks is calling on people to think about pets this Guy Fawkes' night.
Catriona MacLennan: Soft sentencing salt in animals' wounds
Jemaal Large and Jason Godsiff waited until after dark, took galvanised steel pipes from their vehicles and bludgeoned 23 seals to death by inflicting crushed skulls and open wounds on them.
Call for neutering of stray cats
A targeted programme to capture and neuter stray cats before releasing them would reduce the population humanely and effectively, a visiting American animal law expert says.
Cow drowns in effluent on hellish trip
Two dairy farmers, a stock agent and a trucking company have been prosecuted for putting 25 cows through a hellish trip to the slaughterhouse.
Cat abducted, shaved, branded with swastika
The search is on for the people who shaved a family cat in Christchurch and marked a swastika on its back.
Shark fins float in Wellington
One hundred grey shark fins, and one orange fin, are floating in Wellington harbour today to mark the final day of shark awareness week.
Dolphin proposal 'inadequate'
Conservation groups say a new government proposal to help the world's rarest marine dolphin, Maui's dolphin, is inadequate and will not save the species from extinction.
'A great day for beagles'
A change of heart by Parliament on testing recreational drugs on animals has been hailed as a "great day for beagle puppies".
Should the Central Park horses be banned?
I've always classified those horse-drawn carriages in Central Park alongside Venice's gondolas.
Man who starved puppy avoids jail
A dog owner who starved a puppy to death today "narrowly" escaped jail, but has been banned form owning animals for four years.
Damien Grant: Better a beagle dies than a drug-dabbling teen
Beagles are cute, with big eyes and floppy ears. Still, if I was hungry I'd eat one and if I am going to take a drug I do not care how many cute beagles need to die for me to be safe.