Sexual violence against animals in India often remains hidden, with gaps in the law making it difficult to know how many ...

At The Animal Reader, we believe animals deserve to be part of the global news conversation. Not as side notes or used for clickbait stories, but as beings whose lives are directly impacted by human ...

A shark named Bukangi remains in a canal in Busan, South Korea, more than three weeks after people first spotted her.

Hundreds of endangered tadpoles are growing up in a nursery in Long Beach, California, in the United States. Their carers ...

A fire killed all 18,000 chickens in a barn at an organic egg farm in Biervliet in the Netherlands on Saturday.

Seven leopards, including two cubs, have been recorded on South Africa’s West Coast, where people hunted the animals out of ...

Rescuers in Indonesia are finding orangutans with burns, severe thirst and breathing problems as fires destroy their forest ...

Baby southern right whales have died along the coast of Patagonia in southern Argentina since June. Dozens washed ashore near ...

An 11-metre-long fin whale has washed ashore on Ameland, an island in the north of the Netherlands. The dead whale was found on the beach near the village of Hollum. Local animal rescue organisation ...

Before she became known around the world, Wang Wang was a stray dog living in Jieyang, Guangdong Province, in China. Local residents regularly fed and looked after her, and people in the neighbourhood ...

Iran’s endangered animals are facing new dangers after the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran earlier this year, followed by Iranian strikes and weeks of fighting. Although a ceasefire ...

The computers behind artificial intelligence (AI) can have real consequences for animals. As thousands of new data centers are built around the world, scientists are studying how they affect wildlife ...