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Animal rights campaigners have welcomed the move to shut South Lakes Safari Zoo which gained infamy after keeper Sarah McClay was killed by a Sumatran tiger that gained access to an enclosure

South Yorkshire Police have confirmed 13 reports relating to ’dangerous dogs’ in just 48 hours.

Reports of intentional harm towards the breed have risen 164% and abandonments have gone up by 692%, says the RSPCA.

A 55-year-old man has been killed by a wild brown bear while foraging for mushrooms in a Slovakian forest.

A river otter dragged a child on a dock underwater and viciously attacked the mother who intervened in the near-drowning.

For decades, the possibility of great whites in British or Irish seas has remained a mystery

A famous white whale accused of being a Russian spy was shot to death by poachers, animal rights groups claim.

Hvaldimir was first spotted near the Norwegian island of Ingoya in April 2019. He was wearing a harness and what appeared to be a mount for a small camera which read "equipment St Petersburg".

On the outskirts of Dolores, a small town in the northeast of Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on a recent night in August, a bunch of police teams gathered at a gas station to go over the final details of the largest anti-wildlife trafficking operation in Argentina’s history.

Activists say Kennedy could’ve committed felony violation for allegedly driving with whale skull strapped to car roof

Cameron Hopkins shamelessly posted images of the three dead big cats despite there being just 7,000 of the animals left in the African wild - and campaigners have responded calling for an ’immediate ban’

Staff at a practice in Wales have accused its private-equity-backed owner of poor pay and overcharging customers

A man picking berries shot and killed a grizzly bear after it attacked in a surprise encounter.

Rescuers including vets rush to save 12 survivors from 77-strong group lying on Sanday shore

The horrific moment an escaped cow is rammed by a police car twice has caused outrage after being posted to social media.

Two Animal Rising supporters cover monarch’s face with Wallace character in protest against RSPCA-assured farms

Conservationists criticise ‘disappointing’ and ‘dangerous’ move to allow harpooning of fin whales after curbs last year

Ten dogs were found dead in a bag pulled from a Leeds canal, nine months after an almost identical incident in the same waterway, the RSPCA has said.

Cops have seized the ’large’ dog while the probe the horror attack

Phillip Ali, known as ’Doctor Death’, operated a brutal international contest circuit where participants could win thousands of pounds while animals were subjected to horrific acts of violence in Essex

The dog’s owner, Phillip Boyer, was prosecuted by the RSPCA and sentenced at Liverpool Magistrates Court last Tuesday - he was jailed for 17 months and banned from keeping all animals for five years

One year on from Paul O’Grady’s heartbreaking death, the Mirror’s Tom Bryant talks to the TV legend’s widower Andre Portasio about his late husband’s legacy and how he plans to mark the first anniversary of his passing