How to Help a Pigeon Trapped in Netting
All across the country in public spaces – outside shops, at train stations or under bridges – pigeons are dying in pain after becoming trapped in netting designed to deter them.
‘Blackfish’ Comes to the UK
Blackfish, the new film from Gabriela Cowperthwaite, exposes what lies behind the “entertainment”.
A+ for Leeds University After Petting Zoo Cancelled
Compassion and common sense won out this week when Leeds University cancelled plans to host a petting zoo on campus.
JM Coetzee: Bullfighting Is a Disgrace
Nobel Prize-winning novelist joins PETA to speak out against the cruel tradition of bullfighting in Spain.
Thousands March Against Bullfighting in Alès, France
As bullfighters in Alès, France, were preparing to execute 18 bulls during the town’s annual Ascension Festival, compassionate people came together to protest against it.
Good News for Dolphins: India Ditches Dolphinaria!
Dolphins may be diving in delight this week at the news that plans to build dolphin parks in several Indian states have been scrapped following pressure from PETA India.
‘Drugs. Breakdowns. Death.’ PETA US’ New Billboard Tells the Real Story of Horseracing
What’s the biggest tradition in thoroughbred horseracing? Not fancy hats or cocktails –it’s drugs.
United Against Bullfighting
All around the world, people agree – chasing, stabbing, mutilating and killing a bull isn’t very entertaining, nor does it constitute “culture”, in Spain or anywhere else.
Thousands Come Together to Ask, ‘When Will Mali Be Free?’
Mali was taken as a baby from Sri Lanka in 1974 and has spent the last 35 years in a small concrete pen.
Hurrah! Government Finally Acts to Ban Wild Animals in Circuses!
A draft bill was tabled in Parliament to stop circuses using animals beginning in 2015 – a move that all British people can celebrate.