The group responsible for phasing out battery chicken cages within a decade has bowed to industry pressure and proposed extending the timetable.

SPCA head and staunch animal welfare advocate Bob Kerridge admits that some animal testing will be required as part of a new regime which is designed to prove the safety of party pills and synthetic cannabis.

A long-awaited threat management plan for Maui's dolphins is to be announced next month - but one MP has questioned whether the Government is going far enough to protect the critically endangered species.

Move over, Gareth Morgan. A Dunedin woman concerned about the number of feral cats roaming the city has a radical solution for ridding Dunedin of such its undesirables.

Norm Hewitt and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have started a conversation with school students around New Zealand.

Muzzled and waiting in a sterile room for the vet's lethal injection, this was the last sight that 3338 dogs in Auckland saw.

Circling 180m above the ground, its thermal camera trained on the scrubland below, the drone silently watches for its target.

Editorial: Campaigners for the legalisation of cannabis must be watching with interest. While the law would apply only to synthetic equivalents, it might be hard to deny the same tests to naturally grown leaf.

MPs and animal welfare activists have attempted to pull Parliament's heartstrings by recruiting a pack of photogenic beagles in a protest against the possible testing of party pills on animals.

Extending a ban on set net fishing around the Otago Peninsula will stem the deaths of one of the rarest penguin species in the world

A North Canterbury forest lifestyle block owner facing animal welfare charges has now been charged with breaching a protection order and bashing 13 chickens to death.

Two Hector's dolphins have been captured by set nets during an electronic monitoring programme of the set net industry in Timaru.

Ingrid Newkirk compares factory farming to the Holocaust and SeaWorld to slavery. Carole Cadwalladr crosses swords with the founder of Peta.

The Otago SPCA says the dumping of nine kittens and two cats near a swede stand between Milton and Waihola yesterday was "disgraceful".

A Taupo dairy company's guilty plea of failing to provide sufficient food for hundreds of cows sends a "strong deterrent message'', Federated Farmers says.

More than 1000 cows on a large Taupo dairy farm were left dangerously thin, sick and "sad" after months of being underfed, a court has been told.

Samuel John Townhill, 39, pleaded guilty in Ashburton District Court yesterday to two charges of destroying the nests of black-billed gulls laid under the Wildlife Act.

A flood of animal abuse cases in the courts has coincided with the launch of a national animal welfare strategy.