Tag: Animal cruelty

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Brits dumping their pets because of rising cost of living

  

  The UK's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, RSPCA, has revealed it received more than 100 reports of animals being abandoned every single day throughout 2021 and sadly these figures are on the rise this year.

• Thursday, November 19th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Fishermen cut beaks off albatrosses in south-west Atlantic fisheries

  

  A new study has documented a harrowing but increasingly prevalent trend, in which fishermen cut the bills off live albatrosses in order to free them from hooks. Once this barbaric procedure has been performed, trawlermen throw the endangered seabirds back into the ocean to die.