Category: wild animals

Live Animals Openly Traded on Open Web: Australian Research

Animals, plants, fungi, and their parts are being routinely traded on the dark web, mostly for use as drugs or medicine, with e-commerce marketplaces, private forums, and messaging apps making the process easier, according to new university research. Australia has nearly 900 native reptile species, of which over 90 percent cannot be found anywhere else. Each…


Fourth of July Fireworks Cause Wildlife Mayhem

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—It was a busy Independence Day weekend for the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach, where scores of injured animals were treated for injuries resulting from panic-inducing fireworks. Debbie McGuire, executive director of the center, told The Epoch Times that concern about domesticated animals being traumatized by fireworks is always in…


Baby Deer Rescue and Release

Abandoned by its own mother, this newborn fawn got to meet the most unlikely furry foster dad ever!