by Sandra Kyle | Feb 10, 2020 | Animal cruelty, Environment, Health & Nutrition, wildlife
Key Points: We need to take measures to reduce the chances of life-threatening viruses issuing from ‘wet markets’ ever happening again. The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, despite its name, does not sell just seafood – also available were hundreds...
by Sandra Kyle | Jan 28, 2020 | Mental illness in animals, Sentience, wildlife
Key Points: Zhuang Zhuang’s mother rejected him immediately after birth and tried to kill him, rare behaviour for a mother elephant. Zhuang Zhuang cried with anguish for 5 hours, tears streaming from his red eyes and down his face. There is solid...
by Sandra Kyle | Jan 26, 2020 | Animal cruelty, animals in captivity, wildlife
A jackdaw Heli Dungler rescued as a child and kept as a pet is credited with his realisation that wild animals needed to be in their own environment, with their own kind. “She had fallen out of the nest and I took her home and raised her” he said. ”She accompanied me...
by Sandra Kyle | Jan 21, 2020 | Nature, Species extinction, wildlife
Key points: Charred bodies of animals are strewn all over on Kangaroo Island, south of Adelaide, where an estimated 37,000 koalas have been killed in the bushfires. A koala was photographed appearing to bury its face in its arms in sorrow, while its companion’s...
by Sandra Kyle | Nov 27, 2019 | Environment, wildlife
Millions are grieving the death of Lewis the Koala but his legacy will live on, writes End Animal Slaughter contributor LYNLEY TULLOCH. Ellenborough Lewis – or Lewis for short – has died. The rescued koala received substantial burns in the bushfires in...
by Sandra Kyle | Nov 26, 2019 | climate change, wildlife
End Animal Slaughter contributor LYNLEY TULLOCH wrote this piece before hearing the sad news today that Lewis the Koala had died from his injuries in the Australian bush fires. Her follow-up piece will be available on our website in the next 24 hours. The...
