Animals

Tiger Protection In Nepal Is Working, Says WWF Canada

Tiger Protection In Nepal Is Working, Says WWF Canada Anti poaching staff display a leopard skin, a python skin, and a tiger skin - some of the poached items on display at the Tikauli Museum, Terai Arc, Nepal. WWF funds a new building for the museum that will help educate visitors and local people about the effects of poaching on Nepal's wildlife. —…

Hots Docs Q&A: Filmaker Explores Troubling Reality of Homeless People Who Own Dogs

Hots Docs Q&A: Filmaker Explores Troubling Reality of Homeless People Who Own Dogs Quebec-based director Hélène Choquette’s A Dog’s Life follows homeless people who own dogs — photo courtesy of GAT PR. Of the hundreds of films screening at this year’s Hot Docs documentary film festival – happening in Toronto April 28 to May 8 – few will be as…

World Wildlife Fund Canada Offering Go Wild Grants For Community Conservation Projects

World Wildlife Fund Canada Offering Go Wild Grants For Community Conservation Projects WWF Go Wild recipient Ingersoll Public Library for Monarch butterfly program—photo credit: Lynn SutherlandRescuing baby turtles, building homes for bats, restoring bee populations... these are just some of the recent conservation-minded community projects World Wildlife…

Kiehl's Eye Cream Sales To Help Beluga Whales, Canadian Wildlife Federation

Kiehl's Eye Cream Sales To Help Beluga Whales, Canadian Wildlife Federation Kiehl's is helping the Canadian Wildlife Federation — photo credit: Kiehl'sFor the next 12 days, incorporating creamy, moisturizing eye treatments to your beauty regime may have a bonus secondary benefit — helping the Beluga whale. Between now and Earth Day on April 22,…

Famed Hot Car Vet Explains Dangers of Cold Winter Cars on Pets

Famed Hot Car Vet Explains Dangers of Cold Winter Cars on Pets Cassie enjoys the snow — photo credit: Linda MitchellThe same warnings that are made in the sweltering summer months to not leave pets — or children for that matter — in cars while you run in somewhere should be made in the freezing winter months. That five minutes could unexpectedly turn…

Educational Conservation Program Teaches Kids And Contributes To Saving Species

Educational Conservation Program Teaches Kids And Contributes To Saving Species Dr. Ken Jones — photo credit: A-Tem For WildlifeThe innovative A-Team For Wildlife conservation eduction program is practicing what it preaches in helping to save at-risk animals, and by extension, the planet. A-Team For Wildlife just announced that for every school that…

Cat Colony Caretakers are in Your Alleys Before You Awake

Cat Colony Caretakers are in Your Alleys Before You Awake A cat colony gets welcome food from a regular volunteer — photo credit: Sara Slater Every day in every corner of the continent, an army of cat-loving volunteers — some organized, some ad hoc and responding to strays that simply turn up in the backyard one day — set out bowls of water and plates…

Vaughan Mills Pet Patrol Aims To Stop Animals Being Left In Hot Cars

Vaughan Mills Pet Patrol Aims To Stop Animals Being Left In Hot Cars

Jimmy Kimmel Looks For Positive In Cecil The Lion's Death

Jimmy Kimmel Looks For Positive In Cecil The Lion's Death Jimmy Kimmel discussing Cecil the lion — photo credit: Jimmy Kimmel Live official YouTube channel An emotional Jimmy Kimmel had some strong words for Walter Palmer, a U.S. sport hunter, practicing dentist and lion-killer, in the monologue of last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live episode. Palmer has…

Orphaned Bunny? Cracked Turtle? Here’s How to Manage Summer Wildlife Encounters

Orphaned Bunny? Cracked Turtle? Here’s How to Manage Summer Wildlife Encounters Baby raccoon has his head stuck — photo credit: screenshot from TWC video.It’s now officially summer.  And that means just about everyone — but especially those in northern climes, like Canada — is spending every possible moment outdoors, maximizing that small window of warm…

Puppy Swap Subscription Service Advertisement is At First Horrifying

Puppy Swap Subscription Service Advertisement is At First Horrifying Had enough of your dog? Why not trade the old guy or girl in for a puppy? When that one grows up, simply trade it for another puppy. Have you seen the horrifying television and online ad for PuppySwap (view it below), the world’s first puppy subscription service? There is even an…

Helping People and Animals in Nepal After Earthquake: How You Can Help, Get Info Too

Helping People and Animals in Nepal After Earthquake: How You Can Help, Get Info Too Red Cross in Nepal — photo courtesy of Canadian Red Cross. Emergency response teams from around the globe are in Nepal, assisting in search and rescue efforts and attending to the injured after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook the area of Kathmandu just minutes before…

Cuddle Clones Helps Grieving Pet Owners

Cuddle Clones Helps Grieving Pet Owners Australian Cattle Dog Tucker died in 2014. This Cuddle Clones was a birthday gift for his human dad — photo courtesy of C.C.Losing a pet can be one of the most painful experiences in a person’s life. Cuddle Clones is a business that offers custom sewn plush toy replicas of your pet — from cats and dogs to owls,…

Gentle Barn: Where Horses Talk, Cows Heal and Kids Transform

Gentle Barn: Where Horses Talk, Cows Heal and Kids Transform Meet Sir Lancelot — photo courtesy of GB.It might sound like a scene from the film "The Horse Whisperer," but what went down with a horse named Sir Lancelot at The Gentle Barn, a nonprofit organization that rescues farm animals and uses them to help disabled, special needs, and at-risk youth, in…

Small Town Pistols’ Personal Connection to Food Banks and Animal Rescue

Small Town Pistols’ Personal Connection to Food Banks and Animal Rescue Small Town Pistols promo shotWhen country music duo Small Town Pistols, named 2014’s Group of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards, get to participate or offer up their time for a cause, their preference is animal rescue or food banks.  Siblings Tyler and Amanda Wilkinson,…