Last year, four Russian companies illegally captured 97 beluga whales and orcas, locking them in what the media dubbed a “whale jail”. Now, this jail has finally been emptied, with all the sea mammals safely back in the wild.
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT), which would make several kinds of animal cruelty a federal felony in the United States with a punishment of up to seven years in prison.
After the government in Niger put forth the first national conservation strategy in Africa to protect the giraffes from extinction due to poaching, the population of the endangered animals rose back up by more than 11% each year.
