A Virginia man who funded videos shot in Indonesia of monkeys being tortured and killed, and shared them with other users via online messaging groups, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a conspiracy to distribute videos depicting extreme animal abuse. Federal prosecutors said Michael Macartney, 51, of Chesapeake, Va., and his associates used an encrypted messaging platform […]
The elusive wildlife animal Attenborough echidna rediscovered in Indonesia
JAKARTA (AFP): An elusive echidna feared extinct after disappearing for six decades has been rediscovered in a remote part of Indonesia, on an expedition that also found a new kind of tree-dwelling shrimp. The Zaglossus Attenboroughi, a kind of long-beaked echidna named for famed British naturalist David Attenborough, had last been seen in 1961. Echidnas […]