'Clampdown' on animal activists
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Animal rights activists could face five years in prison for targeting research centres under new measures.
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By Frank Urquhart  A MAJOR crackdown on the "barbaric" and illegal sport of hare coursing has been identified as one of the main priorities for a pioneering taskforce, established to combat wildlife crime in the north-east of Scotland.
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TRENTON, New Jersey  - Three animal rights   activists convicted under a U.S. anti-terrorism law were   sentenced to between 48 and 72 months prison on Tuesday for a   campaign to drive out of business Huntingdon Life Sciences, a   company that tests pharmaceuticals and chemicals on animals.
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Wildlife managers are looking to contraception as a way to control nuisance animals.
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A Dutch developer's withdrawal from a science park project is blamed on animal rights protesters.
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CHENNAI, India  - Police arrested the head of the animal rights group PETA for a breach of public peace and insulting religious feelings while protesting against a bullfighting festival in south India, officials said on Friday.
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Pressure has grown at federal and state levels to ban public contact with big cats at USDA-licensed facilities.
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Michael Vick's indictment on dogfighting charges has brought the cruel activity into the headlines this week. But animal-rights activists say the practice is nothing new, and is, in fact, growing in popularity.
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Chinese animal rights activists welcomed a proposed European Union ban on imports of dog and cat fur, saying Tuesday it would pressure the Beijing government to enact better legal protections for animals, while the government denied torture and cruelty are widespread.
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An activist has been jailed for a record four years for his part in a campaign of intimidation against an animal testing firm.
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The boundaries between humans and animals have been eaten away to the point where devoted owners lose all perspective on the petâs role in their social lives.
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Touting tofu chowder and vegetarian sushi as alternatives, animal-rights activists have launched a novel campaign arguing that fish &#151; contrary to stereotype &#151; are intelligent, sensitive animals no more deserving of being eaten than a pet dog or cat.
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Pro-hunt demonstrators dumped animal carcasses and women went topless amid noisy protests on Tuesday outside Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party conference.
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An animal rights group filed a complaint Wednesday against a kosher slaughterhouse for alleged cruelty to cattle. The slaughterhouse called the complaint a veiled attack on religious freedom.
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Officials in the central German city of Erfurt called for stronger laws Monday to protect the rights of animals amid allegations that workers at the city's zoo killed some goats, sheep, pigs and other beasts to sell them for their meat.
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Big animal rights groups do not share the same mission, but they have coalesced around a message that eating meat is worse for the environment than driving.
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A new political party campaigning for animal rights across the UK is to be launched in London.