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A picture of a fake headline from Irish broadcaster RTÉ claims that Ireland has allocated over €100 million-worth of funding for Ukrainian pets. It’s being shared on social media as if it were a legitimate news story, but that’s not the case. The fake screenshot circulating on X uses RTÉ News’s logo and colour scheme and says that the Irish government has signed off on "another €150 million allocation for Ukrainian pet welfare". However there’s no evidence whatsoever that the story is real - an internet search doesn’t yield any results, only fact-checks already debunking the story. Fact-check:...
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Two of the military horses that bolted through London on Wednesday have undergone operations to get back to full health. Four runaway animals tore through rush hour traffic in the capital city, colliding with vehicles and causing four people to be rushed to hospital. One of the horses, a white now named as Vida, was covered in blood, horrifying onlookers. Vida and the other badly injured horse, Quaker, were said to be in a “serious condition” following the incident. How did the horse-centred chaos unfold in London’s rush hour?The four escaped horses are all members of the Household Cavalry, an...
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Demand for octopus as food has grown significantly in recent decades. Yet with concerns around overfishing restricting the number of wild octopuses caught, businesses have been researching how they can farm them. Crucially, octopuses are naturally solitary animals who will inevitably suffer in farm conditions. Confined in cramped indoor tanks of water, these intelligent, unique and sentient wild animals would cause them immense distress, causing aggression, and ultimately even cannibalism. They are also carnivorous, meaning they need to be fed wild fish in captivity — an unsustainable practice...
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Each April, more than 150,000 people attend an event that celebrates horse deaths. Of course, the promoters don’t frame the Grand National Festival this way, but let’s call it what it is: just another event where horses are exploited for profit. Inevitably, this year was no different. Two horses suffered fatal — and completely avoidable — injuries. Yet again, blood is on the hands of everyone involved in the event’s organisation or who attended the three-day meeting at Aintree, and yet again, we’re reminded that horse racing needs to end. The Grand National meeting is one of the deadliest in t...
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New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death. Politicians have long come up with creative ways to battle the rodents, but some lawmakers are now proposing city and statewide measures to do more. In New York City, the idea to distribute rat contraceptives got fresh attention in city government last week following the death of an escaped zoo owl, known as Flaco, who was found dead with rat poison in his system. City Council Member Shaun Abreu p...
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Despite a clear commitment from the European Commission in 2021 to deliver proposals to ban caged animal farming by the end of 2023, it has failed to deliver on its promise. As a result, last week, the End the Cage Age Citizens’ Committee — a group of seven EU citizens who started the ECI — launched a ground-breaking legal action against the European Commission for failing to act. Funded by Compassion in World Farming, this historic case could result in the Commission being compelled by the court to set out a clear timescale for the legislation. It is the first legal action to hold the Commiss...
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Employees of the Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia are doing their best to act like mother foxes as they feed and care for an orphaned kit that found her way into their care. In a bid to make this as natural as possible, they had to get a little bit creative. Executive director Melissa Stanley took the unorthodox step of donning a hyper realistic fox mask while feeding the tiny kit from a syringe. The kit sits on top of a large stuffed animal fox that is supposed to look like her mother, Stanley said. How can abandoned animals be returned to the wild?This helps to minimise human sounds and ...
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We currently face a triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. To solve these crises and secure a healthy future for people, nature, animals and our planet, global agricultural reforms are both essential and inevitable. The way we produce food will shape our very existence on this planet. What’s needed is a sustainable and resilient food system — of the kind set out in the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy — that delivers healthy food in a way that supports decent farmer livelihoods and thriving rural communities. It must also lower emissions, and protect the environ...
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Cape Town experienced a particularly foul stench earlier this week. The reason? A ship docked in the South African city’s harbour, carrying 19,000 live cattle. The vessel was stopped on its way from Brazil to Iraq and the smell emanating from it has caused Cape Town authorities to open an investigation. Initially, officials suspected that a sewage facility may have leaked, before the source of the stench was discovered. It was only a temporary stopover, to the relief of residents - and, on Wednesday, the vessel headed on to its destination of Iraq. However, while in South Africa, the ship - wh...
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