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Clear policies are needed on treatment of animals to avoid polarisation of views

The future of the chimpanzee

On the first-ever World Chimpanzee Day, we should consider the ways we can ensure that future human generations can enjoy sharing the earth with …

What Sudha Murty’s new book tells us about animal emotions and welfare

At a time when many people are rethinking the human-animal relationship from both a scientific and moral respective, The Gopi Diaries …

Ethiopia releases atlas to map livestock disease caused by the tsetse fly

African animal trypanosomosisis, caused by tsetse fly, is a huge problem for African livestock farmers

Cage the abusers

In battery cages, egg-laying hens are suffocated, debeaked and injected with antibiotics. Their only hope lies with the Delhi High Court, which …

Killing is no answer

Here are 18 steps to deal with monkeys that enter human habitation areas. They do not involve killing them

Home remedy

A local remedy for controlling a parasitic disease works wonders for sheepbreeders in the Peruvian highlands

Zurich’s Dr Dolittle is a lawyer

ANTOINE GOETSCHEL, 51, is a Swiss government advocate for animals. A specialist in animal welfare law for 25 years, he explained to SUMANA …

Mammalian threads

A treatise on how science came to grasp evolution in mammals

It is time to introduce the 'Shaktiman Act'

Why every Indian needs to rise up and sign this petition

Changing need in cattle feed

Scientific fodder comes of age in today's era of specialisation and optimum use

SOUTH AFRICA

Oxytocin injections siezed

Indonesia

Testing matter

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Nandan Kanan gets health cover

Fences have big effects on land and wildlife around the world that are rarely measured

A recent compilation of studies from ecosystems around the world shows that fences produce a complex range of ecological effects

Why I would not advocate vegetarianism

Meat eating is not the key issue, it is the amount that is consumed and the manner in which it is produced. This is where India differs.

Blood Sport

What progressive laws of India and the work animal welfare organisations do regarding the prevention of cruelty to animals in the country, will …

Deserted by policy

Rajasthan's livestock is facing a threat as grazing lands disappear and laws paralyse traditional economic incentives for keepers

Animal rights primer

Book>> Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs To Know • by Paul Waldau • OUP, New York • US $10.7