This post is in response to 'Are Wild Animals Always Happier Than Captive Animals?' By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Can captive animals be happy? In a recent Psychology Today post, Marc Bekoff cites Janis Joplin ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses yesterday’s reintroduction of the Captive Primate Safety Act (CPSA), which would end the cruel and dangerous pet primate trade in the United ...

New research suggests captive dolphins may be exposed to more microplastics than wild counterparts — a startling discovery that underscores just how deeply plastic pollution has infiltrated even ...

"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose." –Janis Joplin For many years I've been thinking about whether wild nonhuman animals (animals) are always happier than captive animals of their ...

In the Florentine Codex, missionary Bernardino de Sahagún famously documented the existence of the “House of the Beasts” in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. In another Spanish account, Conquistador ...

Born Free is appalled to hear reports of the deaths of 72 captive tigers in northern Thailand over a two-week period in February.

World Animal Protection has written to the American ambassador, to India, Honourable Mr Sergio Gor, after news reports and ...

An elephant in the street is now a common sight for Chinese residents of the animals' home territory on the Myanmar-Laos border, where a recovering elephant ...