When a man made a Facebook post about giving away his dog and her nine puppies, a concerned community immediately stepped in to make sure the little family got the attention and care they so desperately needed.Nana is 4 years old, and spent the past three years of her life chained up outside her home […]
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The Swannanoa Valley Museum hikes to the 18th century, easternmost boundary of the Cherokee nation on Saturday, Feb. 18. The Cherokee Boundary trek is the second hike in the museum’s popular Swannanoa Rim Explorer Hiking Series, a sequence of hikes around Eastern America’s highest and most historic skyline. Hikers do not need to sign up for […]
Nada Farhoud joined an undercover investigation on a fur farm in Finland(Image: Kristo Muurimaa from Oikeutta Eläimille)I am staring into the eyes of an animal which has spent its entire miserable, tormented life trapped in a tiny, barren cage so that it can become a frivolous fashion item.This distressed Arctic fox is missing an ear. […]
The city commission for Hallandale Beach, Florida, recently voted 5-0 to make theirs the first city in the state to ban the sale of new fur products. The ordinance will take effect immediately and exempts used fur and pelts from cows, sheep and deer.Florida has the eighth highest fur sales in the country, according to 2017 […]
ColossalThe best of art, craft, and visual culture since 2010.Artist Kelly Rene Jelinek fabricates life-sized replicas of taxidermied animal heads using fragments of upholstery fabric. The decorative objects conjure nostalgia from Jelinek’s youth spent in rural Wisconsin where she frequently encountered taxidermy deer and game mounts as part of everyday household decor. The artist begins […]
Publisher – News, entertainment and sports from Langara College journalism students By Claire A. WilsonTaxidermy is seeing a revival in Vancouver’s contemporary art scene with the emergence of a close-knit community of artists who utilize humanely sourced specimens.According to Rachel Poliquin, cultural historian and writer, taxidermy has shifted from predominantly museum settings to modern artistic […]
A celebration of how alien yet relatable so many of the creatures that live among us can be.All the essential information you need about Australia’s unique flora and fauna.The weird and wonderful natural phenomena of our natural world – explained.Glimpse worlds beyond our own with AG’s esteemed space expert and living legend, Fred Watson.Be surprised […]