Friday, 20 September 2013
Chickens Flood Shelters As Backyard Farmers Call It Quits
China Bans Ancient Dog-Eating Festival Amid Online Outcry
Chinese Animal Activists Save Hundreds of Dogs From Being Eaten
China’s Year of the Rabbit: Not So Great For All Those Abducted Baby Rabbits
Dog Gets Pro Bono Attorney in ‘Death Penalty’ Case
New York City Carriage Horse Drops Dead in the Street
Latest Fad in China: Keychains Containing Live Turtles and Fish
New Protests in Egypt: Activists to Picket Cairo Zoo for Animal Rights
More Sad Baby Animal News: Only a Fortnight after Knut’s Death, the Berlin Zoo Loses a Young Elephant
The Disturbing State of Indonesia’s ‘Zoo of Death’
Spain’s Catalonia Region Bans Bullfighting
Tearjerker Alert: Former Lab Beagles See the Sun for the First Time
Dog videos never fail to conjure up some sort of emotion. And this one really brings the waterworks. The above footage shows male beagles that were rescued from a California university animal testing lab seeing sunlight and stepping on grass for the first time.
The rescue mission, which happened in June, was recently followed by a much larger one from a lab in Spain. The group that undertook the cause, Animal Rescue Media Education (ARME), rescued a total of 72 dogs in the most recent effort, 32 of them having already been adopted in Europe, according to NBC Los Angeles.
(PHOTOS: Rehabilitated Attack Dogs)
ARME’s Beagle Freedom Project spokesman Gary Smith told the station that the beagles, all between ages 4 and 7, had lived in cages their entire lives.
Unfortunately, beagles’ notoriously obedient dispositions makes them ideal for experimentation. According to the Beagle Freedom Project’s website, they are the breed of choice for lab testing of pharmaceutical, household, and cosmetic products due to their ability to adapt to life in a cage and the fact that they are relatively inexpensive to feed.
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When the beagles are no longer needed for research, some labs contact organizations such as ARME, who then work to find good homes for the dogs.
This heartbreaking (that soundtrack!) video was filmed back in June, when the organization brought nine beagles to Los Angeles to get a second chance at life. We dare you not to be moved by that first beagle’s initial tentative steps and soulful eyes.
ARME is a non-profit advocacy group and 501(c)(3) organization funded by tax-deductible contributions. Information on how to make a donation or adopt a beagle is available on the organization’s website.
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Super Mario’s Raccoon Suit Has PETA Crying Foul
Two Deaths, One Race: Is The Grand National Course Too Dangerous for Horses?
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Woman Bites Dog During Drunken Rampage
Vegan Activists Vandalize Iowa State Fair Butter Cow
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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013
Australian photographer Mark Gee has beaten over a thousand amateur and professional photographers from around the globe to win the title of Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013. As well as securing the £1,500 top prize, his image takes pride of place in the exhibition of winning photographs opening at the Royal Observatory Greenwich on 19 September 2013. For information about entering next year’s competition visit www.rmg.co.uk/astrophoto
Earth and Space
Winner and Overall Winner
Guiding Light to the Stars © Mark Gee (Australia)
The skies of the Southern Hemisphere offer a rich variety of astronomical highlights. The central regions of the Milky Way Galaxy, 26,000 light years away, appear as a tangle of dust and stars in the central part of the image. Two even more distant objects are visible as smudges of light in the upper left of the picture. These are the Magellanic Clouds, two small satellite galaxies in orbit around the Milky Way.
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'Dr Dolittle' gamekeeper's close-up photos
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London Zoo reveals winners of the ZSL Animal Photography Prize 2013
Breathtaking images depicting the magic of the animal kingdom from the annual competition run by the Zoological Society of London are on display at ZSL London Zoo from Friday 20 September. For more information see http://www.zsl.org/about-us/zsl-animal-photography-prize/
Category Four - Size Matters.
Adult Winner.
A GIANT TROPHY FOR A SMALL ANT by Bence Mate.
“This photograph shows two leaf-cutter ants where one of them is carrying back a curly pink leaf particle to their nest. Leaf-cutter ants are one of the strongest species on Earth; they cut and collect leaves which they use as a food source. I took a whole series of photographs of leaf-cutter ants at work, and I chose to enter this photo in the Size Matters category not only because ants are generally small creatures, but because of the obvious difference in size between the small ant and its disproportionate trophy – giving the title an underlying meaning as well.”
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Wednesday, 18 September 2013
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Big cat Britain: The sightings
Gorillas' habitat threatened as oil exploration puts Congo's Virunga Park at risk
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National Trust's top ten secret Great British Walks
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The 2013 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition
Photographer Annette Price explores a Welsh silica mine
The dark side of the Kalahari

Luna with one of her cubs.Picture: Hannes Lochner/Barcroft Media
Stunning images from the Handbook of Bird Photography
The best photos of the annual Perseid meteor shower
Thousands of stargazers cast their eyes to the heavens last night for the “breathtaking” display of the Perseids meteor shower. Across the UK people turned into amateur astronomers as spotted the shooting stars that occurred as a result of the material falling from the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle. Above, Telegraph reader Paul Hill took this atmospheric photo of the Perseids meteor shower over the site of the Creamfields festival outside Winchester.
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Picture: Paul HillThe volcanoes of the Kamchatka by photographer Sergey Krasnoshchekov
The latest photos of the annual Perseid meteor shower
Thousands of stargazers cast their eyes to the heavens last night for the “breathtaking” display of the Perseids meteor shower. Across the UK people turned into amateur astronomers as spotted the shooting stars that occurred as a result of the material falling from the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle. Above, Telegraph reader Paul Hill took this atmospheric photo of the Perseids meteor shower over the site of the Creamfields festival outside Winchester.
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Picture: Paul HillWildlife Photographer of the Year 2013
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition is in its 49th year and attracts entries from professionals and amateur photographers alike. Judged by a panel of widely acclaimed industry-recognised professionals, the images are selected for their creativity, artistry and technical complexity
100 Harvest gold
COMMENDED: 15-17 years
Etienne Francey
Switzerland
Late one July evening, walking slowly along the edge of a wheat field near his village –
Cousset, in Switzerland – looking for subjects to photograph, Etienne noticed ‘a little ball’
stuck to an ear of wheat. ‘To my surprise,’ says Etienne, ‘it was a harvest mouse, nibbling
the grain.’ Etienne approached until he was a few metres away and managed to photograph
the tiny mouse at various angles before it scuttled back down the wheat stalk. ‘The meeting
was brief but extraordinary,’ he adds. ‘This was my favourite out of all the portraits,’ showing
it eating, its prehensile tail helping it to balance.
Picture: Etienne FranceyThe winners in the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2013
An image of a dolphin surfing in the waves has claimed the top prize in the British Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The dolphin's eye view shot was captured off the coast of Northern Ireland by George Karbus, from County Clare, Ireland, who swam in the surf with the marine mammal to get the winning image and secure the £5,000 prize. Mr Karbus said: "Each time the dolphin got into the wave, I dived underneath, held my breath and waited for the moment when he would swish through a silver barrel close enough to my lens. "Water visibility is always very limited in Ireland and I was very lucky to get a shot like this." Winning images, video and selection of highly commended entries can be viewed at http://www.bwpawards.co.uk/
Picture: George Karbus/BWPAWaders and sea birds take flight for the 'Snettisham Spectacular'
Urban Jungle: Common seal born in industrial zone
The BBC's Hannah Bayman witnesses the birth of a pup by a rocky bank near Middlesbrough, the first to be captured on film in northern England.
Seal monitoring volunteer Linda Watson described seeing the birth as: "a perfect moment in your life."
A colony of seals is thriving in the industrial area of Teesside after a clean-up operation to reduce the effect of pollution.
Before the 1930s there were around 1,000 seals on the Greatham Creek nature reserve, but pollution from heavy industry drove them away.
There is now a healthy population of Common Seals and these are the only seals in Europe which have re-colonised.
The clip will be broadcast in Urban Jungle on Thursday, 1 August at 19:00 BST on BBC One North East and Cumbria and nationwide on the iPlayer for seven days thereafter.
Source: BBC