The ERA rules the SPCA acted "fairly and reasonably" in making a former general manager redundant months after he started. David Lloyd-Barker claimed his redundancy was "a sham".

Moko the dolphin could well be on the way back to his summer home of Gisborne, an international expert on solo dolphins says.

Around Britain, the placid calm of urban ponds and watercourses is being disturbed by a rapacious new menace – legions of abandoned pet terrapins.

Sea Shepherd national coordinator Bill Watson has called for Foreign Minister Murray McCully to step down from his portfolio.

MAF received almost 700 complaints about the mistreatment of livestock to November last year.