Animal rights activists in Assam and elsewhere in India have decided to petition the Supreme Court against the proposed “torturous train trip” of four juvenile elephants from the State to Gujarat for a religious event in Ahmedabad. NGOs such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) too have …
MUMBAI: Animal experts have stated that continuously teasing zoo animals, especially large animals like elephants, and trespassing into their territories are the main provocations that cause the animals to react, sometimes fatally. The secretary of the Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA), Lt Colonel (Retd) J …
NEW DELHI: For her commitment to provide shelter to homeless animals, 12-year-old aspiring veterinarian Laura Moll has bagged the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals's
Almost 400 conches worth several crores were seized from the ongoing Trade Fair on Sunday. Four people working with the Tamil Nadu and Orissa stalls were arrested in connection to the illegal trade under which the conches were being brought from the southern parts of the country to Delhi and …
Layoffs During Downturn Resulted In Record Number Of Job Applications From Corporate Professionals Preeti Kulkarni MUMBAI WHILE the Indian corporate sector seems to have shaken off the effects of the worst financial crisis the world has faced since 1929, recruitment activity in several sectors is yet to pick up speed. …
MUMBAI: The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has announced that it will give the 2009 Proggy Award for International Leadership in the Field of Animal Rights to India's Central Zoo Authority (CZA) in recognition of the government organisation's decision to ban the use of elephants in zoos …
Though meat traders have called of their strike and agreed to work at the Ghazipur slaughterhouse, illegal slaughtering is on the rise in various areas of the Capital, say sources. According to them, most of the illegal slaughtering is being done in Seelampur, Jafrabad, Okhla, Khureji and some other areas. …
In the wake of the increasing incidents of animal deaths in zoos, campaigners of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) today demonstrated in front of the Central Zoo Authority in the national Capital, and called for shutting down of all zoos in the country. During the protest, PETA …
The protest demo organised by PETA at Thekkinkad Maidan in Thrissur on Tuesday demanding ban on the use of elephants in entertainment programmes. THRISSUR: Under the auspices of the Punebased 'People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' (PETA), a demonstration demanding ban on the use of elephants in entertainment programmes …
Lita Barretto Bull owners reject claims of cruelty, saying they treat the bulls like their own children and at Rs 5,000-10,000 each, fighting them is a way of recouping the cost of keeping the animals BULLFIGHTING WAS once a way of life in the resort state of Goa, with thousands …
The city zoo, which has been receiving flak since the death of a five-year-old hippopotamus in April, is all set to adorn a new look by the year 2012. After recieving green signal from the Mumbai Heritage Committee for the Rs 433 crore modernisation plan last week, Byculla Zoo Authorities, …
AHMEDABAD: That meat you are about to gobble may be buzzing with anthrax virus, ready to eat you up instead! Conveying this message were four PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) volunteers at Law Garden on Wednesday afternoon. "It was recently found that some cattle in Dehgam, Gandhinagar …
Mumbai Seems like the Byculla zoo authority has learnt a lesson the hard way, after suffering the loss of Shakti. The hippopotamus had died on April 24. A month after the hippo
Mumbai: Describing the condition of the civic body-run zoo in the city as pathetic, several animal rights groups have suggested that it be shut down. People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has appealed to the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) to close down the zoo in Byculla area, a tourist …
In observance of the International Chicken Respect Day, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has urged the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC), to install a statue of a chicken in a busy part of the city to pay respect to the billions of chickens which are killed for food.
Mumbai: Following the death of Shakti, the five-year-old male hippopotamus, at Veermata Jijabai Udyan on April 24, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has demanded that the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) conduct an immediate inspection of the zoo and an inquiry into the death. Peta (India) chief functionary …
The death of a five-year-old hippopotamus at the Byculla zoo recently has agitated a key animal rights body which has threatened to move the Bombay High Court if the conditions in the cages did not improve. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it is taking up the …
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India wants to know what a groundbreaking 2006 UN report concluded: 'Raising animals for food generates more greenhouse-gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, ships and planes in the world combined.' That is why the group will display on Tuesday (World Earth …
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) today held a mock funeral procession at Jantar Mantar here to protest against the barbaric marketing strategies of cosmetic players and relentless brutality endured on innocent animals, whose fates are sealed once they enter the cosmetic-testing labs. At the session,
