STOCKHOLM (AP) — People around the world were stunned when Copenhagen Zoo killed a healthy 2-year-old giraffe named Marius, butchered its carcass in front of a crowd that included children and then ...

Brussels promised to end the practice of caging livestock five years ago, but the law is still pending and millions of hens ...

Europe is often viewed as one of the world's most developed continents, with dense populations, extensive infrastructure, and landscapes shaped by centuries of human activity. Yet hidden within its ...

Alongside the occasional bison and elk, red deer are Europe's largest native wild animal. An international study led by wildlife ecologists from the University of Freiburg has now investigated the ...

PODGORICA, Montenegro — As a heat wave that baked western Europe reached the Balkans this week, animal welfare activists in ...

I'll never forget my first "hawk walk." It was at Ireland's School of Falconry (just outside of Cong, north of Galway), where a great guide showed our tour group how to properly handle birds of prey.

Surekha Davies is a historian of science and the author of Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human. She is currently based in the Netherlands. It’s an enduring myth that the development ...

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A new study shows that human hunting and land use have a decisive influence on red deer density in Europe. Red deer density is only reduced when wolves, lynx and bears co-occur at the same site. A new ...