Europeans expect advances, Americans will have to defend gains, & Indian government dithers on WASHINGTON D.C.; LONDON; ROME; NEW DELHI––If political promises can be taken as New Year’s resolutions, 2026 might become an even better year for animals than was 2025. 2025 ended with a salute from Francisco Vásquez Neira, president of the international animal […]
Brigitte Bardot, 91, movie star for 20 years, animal advocate for 52 years
Brigitte Bardot: provocative on film, but even more provocative for animals, for more than twice as long PARIS, France––Brigitte Bardot, 91, a fashion model for four years, a film actress for 20 years, and a full-time animal advocate for the last 52 years of her life, died on December 28, 2025 of undisclosed causes at […]
Malaga, Spain bans horse-drawn carriages; NYC campaign mires
All New York City mayoral candidates say they favor a ban, meaning none are accountable to horse advocates NEW YORK CITY; MALAGA, Spain––The future of horse-drawn carriages in and around Central Park may not be the biggest issue on the minds of New York City voters in the November 4, 2025 mayoral election, a three-way […]
Colombia bans bullfights
Anti-bullfighting president Gustavo Petro wins 12-year political battle BOGOTA, Colombia––Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia, on May 28, 2024 appeared to win a 12-year fight to ban Spanish-style arena bullfighting. The 166-member Colombian House of Representatives voted 93-2 to ban bullfighting by the start of 2028. The vote in the 102-member Colombian Senate was reportedly 96-2. […]
Reduction, refinement, replacement: A Tale of Two Javier Burgos
Opposing approaches to a common goal CASTELLON DE LA PLANA, Spain––A soon-to-launch biomedical research animal tissue supplier called aRukon, founded by Jaume I University scientist Javier Burgos, promises to significantly reduce laboratory animal use by enabling researchers to make more efficient use of each animal killed for a test sample. The Javier Burgos at Jaume […]
So is cruelty to animals more a part of Hispanic heritage than Catholicism?
Cultural defenses of steer-tailing and bullfighting ignore both U.S. anti-cruelty laws and 456 years of Catholic prohibition BELVIDERE, Illinois; LOS ANGELES, California––Responded Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi to the December 6, 2023 report Los Angeles council vote against rodeo opens new fight against charreada, which also mentioned that a Boone County, […]
Spain seeks more wild horses, even as U.S. & Australia seek fewer
Wild horses are being reintroduced in part to help prevent wildfires MADRID, Spain––Wild horses have been restored, in the names of fire prevention and protecting biodiversity, to three different Spanish conservation areas, scattered across the northwestern Iberian peninsula, and are actively conserved and protected in another, to the extreme south. The Spanish horse restorations come […]
Hotter climate makes “no-see-ums” a global threat to horned, hoofed animals
Bighorn sheep, deer, goats & cattle are among vulnerable species OKANAGAN, B.C.; BISMARCK, N.D.; ALBANY, N.Y.; MADRID, Spain; LISBON, Portugal––Hardly anyone saw “no-see-ums” coming as one of the most ubiquitous and insidious effects on animals due to global warming. Indeed, hardly anyone saw “no-see-ums” coming even before global warming began visibly disrupting climate and […]
Is mink farming “too dirty to die”? Or is pending bill the coup-de-grace?
Some in the U.S. mink industry see COVID-19 as a growth opportunity WASHINGTON D.C.––Will the COVID-19 delta variant finally kill mink farming in the U.S., after COVID-19 in all forms has killed more than 633,000 Americans? Or will HR 4310, dubbed the MINKS Act as acronym for “Minks in Narrowly Kept Spaces Are Superspreaders Act,” […]
Vultures: canaries in the pharmaceutical waste coal mine?
Diclofenac-related vulture death in Spain may point toward a much bigger problem Should the end times be near, whether through global warming, loss of fish from the oceans, nuclear war, or any of myriad other calamities, vanishing vultures might be among the early harbingers of the apocalypse. Vultures might be expected to descend on the […]