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Thursday 26 November 2020
TD Paul Murphy has called or cross-party support for the Bill.
Annual culls are carried out by the OPW to manage the number of wild deer in the park.
It’s not as bad as it was years ago but residents in Dublin still see problems with unlicensed horses.
If your idea of fun is running with the bulls in Pamplona, you need to rethink your ethics, writes Grace McKeown.
Even in the best circumstances, it’s impossible for zoos to meet all the unique needs of the various species they hold captive, writes Elisa Allen.
Catalonia’s regional parliament voted to abolish bullfighting from January 1, 2012 after animal rights groups garnered 180,000 signatures for a petition.
Councillors voted in favour of the motion last night.
The designer brand made the announcement today.
Zoo officials have defended it as educational.
The activists have defended their actions, and claimed the dog was being mistreated.
The country’s treatment of animals is coming under increasing scrutiny from animal rights groups.
The organisers of the Puck Fair have responded to criticism from animal rights groups.
The activists say they have ‘no regrets’.
The lobsters were later released into the sea in Clontarf.
But a lot of people were against the law.
The incident is not the first time the 33-year-old striker’s love of hunting has been made apparent.
He bought the tigers for “a huge amount of money”, Chinese media says.
Sam Simon of Simpsons fame was one of the 321 people who helped save Benjy from the chopping block.
In case you saw them from across the street earlier, and were wondering what was going on.
It is believed the dogs suffocated in transit during the 14-hour journey.
The motion, which goes before Kildare County Council, has the support of Mayor Fiona O’Loughlin.
There was uproar when it was suggested that the dog of a Spanish Ebola patient be put down.
A petition to stop it has tens of thousands of signatures already.
Joan. Cat menacer.
Good sense or Frankenfood? The issue is coming up for debate again in Europe.
Hopefully in 100 years we’ll look back on animals in circuses like we now do about Victorian ‘freak show’ performances using disabled people.
The Department of Agriculture is trialling a vaccination programme in a number of counties to see how effective it is but most badgers captured are shot.
The video shows shearers beating and throwing the animals, stamping on their necks and stitching wounds apparently without anaesthetic.
It’s led to new calls for a ban on wild animals in circuses.
The Department of Agriculture has tendered for organisations to capture and vaccinate badgers.
The circus has said that they treat their animals’ welfare as a “top priority”.
The hunt in the fishing village of Taiji in western Japan has come under international criticism and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film “The Cove”.
There were approximately 10 million elephants in Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Today, thanks to widespread poaching, that number has dropped to 500,000.
About 5,500 dogs are euthanised in Ireland every year – most are perfectly healthy. The only reason they have to die is because otherwise ordinary people are happy to turn a blind eye to the appalling consequences of their actions.
Figures from the UK suggest bereaved pet owners cost the economy £1 billion and a call for compulsory leave is being made here.
Tonight’s Ear to the Ground programme will show its presenter killing a turkey. An animal rights group has called for the scene to be removed. Do you agree?
ARAN have launched a new campaign, supported by Senator David Norris.
As pet-ownership grows among China’s expanding middle-class, an animal rights group is urging people to re-evaluate the practice of eating the animals.
A scene that showed a cat being shot set tongues wagging on social media, but one animal rights group is not happy with Nidge and the lads.
Around 90 hare coursing meetings will be held in Ireland in the coming months, with each event using around 100 hares.
THE NATIONAL PUBLIC Health Emergency Team is meeting today to make its recommendation to Government about easing Level 5 restrictions.
The recommendation will potentially set out what people are able to do in the weeks leading up to Christmas, ahead of the Government’s decision this week on whether or not it will re-open things like pubs and restaurants across the country after 1 December.
It’s been reported this week that some ministers believe restaurants should be allowed to open for indoor dining during December and that pubs should also be allowed to reopen.
However, some public health experts believe that it would not be safe to re-open restaurants next month, given the potential to the virus to spread in congregated indoor settings.
But what do you think? Today we’re asking: Would you be comfortable going to a restaurant for a meal in December?
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