This video reveals the devastating impact the invasion of Ukraine has had on animals across the country. It shows how pets ...

The war in Ukraine has upended the lives of millions of people. It’s also disrupted the lives of an untold number of animals, both pets and zoo animals. An upcoming episode of Nature on PBS, “Saving ...

“This is exhausting and challenging work that requires great resilience, courage, and the ability to act in stressful and ...

On a special episode (first released on May 15, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: It has now been over two years since Russia invaded Ukraine. As the people of Ukraine fled their homes, many were forced ...

Samka the rhino looks sad. When her longtime companion Boy the elephant died in April, she watched over his body for an entire day until it was taken away. Today the elephant’s pen sits empty. Boy is ...

KYIV, Ukraine – As millions of people escaped war-torn Ukraine, one woman made it her mission to rescue the country’s abandoned pets and zoo animals. Natalia Popova converted her equestrian ranch on ...

Animal–human interactions occur in many different venues, including wars. Numerous domestic and wild nonhuman animals (animals) are victims of war during and after a conflict has ended, and the ...

Over the past year, the keepers at the Kazkova Dibrova zoo in southern Ukraine battled to safeguard their charges under Russian occupation. The park surrounding the zoo was mined and access routes ...

KHERSON, Ukraine — The rescue volunteer holds out his hand, but the dog, stranded on a floating island of debris in a southern Ukrainian city inundated by flooding, is too traumatized to approach.

BUCHA, Ukraine – After Russian forces rampaged through this suburb of Kyiv last year and Anna, now 10, hid in a neighbor’s basement, she sought solace in her stuffed fox, Foxy, and cat, Vatka. Vlada, ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian embassies and consulates in six European countries have received packages containing animals’ eyes in recent days, a Ukrainian official said Friday. Foreign Ministry ...