Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz stopped livestock shipments to seven nations. Islamabad High Court rules that indiscriminately killing street dogs contradicts Islamic law. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan––The 2026 Haj season, meaning the pilgrimage-to-Mecca season observed by the Islamic faithful, ended on May 30-31 with both good and bad news for animals. The bad news, as ever, […]
Syed Abulbar Rizvi, 92, linked Islamic & western animal advocacy
Syed Rizvi, a founding member of PETA, also founded Engineers & Scientists for Animal Rights Syed Abulbar Rizvi, 92, founder of Engineers & Scientists for Animal Rights, a longtime leading link between the animal advocacy communities of Pakistan and those of the west, and a leading voice for animals within Islam, died in his sleep […]
Were six soldiers blown up over bustards in Balochistan on Christmas Day?
Balochistan is hardly a hotbed of violent animal advocacy, but Qatari bustard hunters are deeply resented TURBAT, Pakistan––A vehicle carrying six armed guards for members of the Qatari royal family on an expedition to hunt houbara bustards, an internationally recognized threatened member of the grouse family, was blown up by a remote-controlled improvised bomb on […]
Asian Animal Protection Network founder John Wedderburn, 83
Medical doctor John Wedderman quietly linked 759 Asian animal advocates into the beginnings of an international movement HONG KONG––Asian Animal Protection Network founder John Wedderburn, 83, among the most influential yet least well-known builders of the global animal rights and humane movements, died on November 25, 2024 at his retirement home in West Java, Indonesia. […]
Pro-animal teachings in Islam made available free to the world
Animals In Islam, 2nd edition From Al-Ma’arri (973-1057) to ABA Masri (1914-1992) by Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad Masri with foreword by Syed Rizvi 165 pages, paperback. “This book is published for non-commercial and free distribution in collaboration with the Pakistan Medical Association, the Pakistan Animal Welfare Society, and Engineers & Scientists for Animal Rights to create […]
New study finds: India rabies deaths & therefore world toll far exaggerated
International Journal of Infectious Diseases affirms what ANIMALS 24-7 has reported since 2012 GUANGZHOU, Guangdong, China––ANIMALS 24-7 was right all along that “official” estimates of human deaths from rabies are inflated by magnitudes of order. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about how and why the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, […]
Hurricane Ian & Pakistan “super flood” compete for aid & sympathy
Animal agriculture made Pakistan crisis worse FORT MYERS, Florida; ISLAMABAD, Pakistan––With Hurricane Ian storm water still receding in Florida and South Carolina, the human body count rising over 100, and animal casualties only just beginning to be estimated, Julien Harneis, United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Pakistan, might be said to have picked an awkward time to appeal to the […]
Vultures circling overhead are good news for Planet Earth
Both black vultures & turkey vultures are rapidly expanding U.S. range and numbers Feeling down about global warming, chemical pollution, and reports about loss of species? See the vultures circling overhead? Both black vultures and turkey vultures are rapidly expanding in numbers and range across the U.S. Turkey vultures have even appeared in southeastern Alaska […]
What does Islam teach about spay/neuter of dogs & cats?
All major schools and branches of Islam accept spay/neuter surgery––if it is done correctly Few ANIMALS 24-7 articles have been more often read, in more nations, than What did the Prophet Mohammed really say about dogs? This article, updated most recently on August 22, 2021, was among the first […]
What did the Prophet Mohammed really say about dogs?
Kindness toward dogs could bring forgiveness for sin Amid great anxiety among animal lovers about what the Taliban recapture of Afghanistan might mean for dogs, ANIMALS 24-7 notes that the most intensive persecution of dogs on record in Afghanistan came in 2013, during the U.S. occupation, when Edouard Guihaire of Agence France-Presse reported that “about […]