'We've killed a lot of animals'
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Arts & entertainment: Joel and Ethan Coen tell John Patterson about Texas, torture and a 'fantastic' haircut
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By Guan Xiaofeng  Experts have warned of environmental pollution from increased animal husbandry, as the country became the world's top meat and egg producer last year.
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The government has said that foot and mouth disease has been detected in sheep on another farm and that all animals there had been slaughtered.
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Hundreds of thousands of native  Australian animals such as koalas and kangaroos have been  killed in bushfires that have burned across southeast Australia  in the past two weeks, wildlife officials said on Monday.
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An often-fatal bacterial disease that has sickened hundreds of sea lions on the Central Coast is seen as a threat to humans and other mammals as well.
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By Geoffrey Lean  Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow.   A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife.
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study being reported Tuesday estimates that as many as 23,000 animals were slaughtered last year alone....
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As usual, there has been a disproportionate and unbalanced reaction to recent and ongoing violence in our region. Since late September, Israel has been butchering civilians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Â·   Killing wild animals 'can limit spread of cattle TB' Â·  Comments contradict independent report
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Western states grapple with how to address an increasing threat to livestock from wolves and big cats.
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An outbreak of anthrax has killed at least 1,500 wild game animals in nature preserves in southeastern Zimbabwe, a state-run newspaper reported Monday.
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High levels of  may be killing off people living in cities around the world, experts suspect.
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Scientists studying the broader effects of wolf reintroduction said a growing body of evidence suggests that killing off predators such as wolves and grizzly bears in the last century started a cascade of effects that threw ecosystems out of balance.
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Pets are being slaughtered for meat in shortage-stricken Zimbabwe and record numbers of animals have been surrendered to shelters or abandoned by owners no longer able to feed them, animal welfare activists say.
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Almost a third of all apes, monkeys and other primates are in danger of extinction because of rampant habitat destruction, the commercial sale of their meat and the trade in illegal wildlife, a report released Friday said.
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Photographer and conservationist Karl Ammann discusses why he takes often shocking photos of African apes and other rare animals killed for meat. With photo galleries.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.