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Animal tragedy unfolds near Bodø

Hundreds of pigs were feared to have been burned alive early Tuesday after a blaze engulfed the barn where they were housed at Fenes, not far...

Minister clears the way for mass reindeer slaughter

After receiving what's been called "brutal and unambiguous" advice from veterinary experts, Agriculture Minister Jon Georg Dale told Norway's food safety and animal welfare authorities...

Wild reindeer face a mass slaughter

Wildlife authorities fear that two large herds of wild reindeer that roam Norway's central mountain plateau called Hardangervidda have been infected with Chronic Wasting...

Wolves stable in numbers, attack fewer sheep

New statistics from Rovdata, which tracks Norway’s wolf population, indicate there are now between 84 and 91 wolves in the country and roaming back...

Seized snake stolen

Customs authorities in Kristiansand, on the southern tip of Norway, made a surprise discovery during a routine inspection of a car driving off a ferry...

Legal loophole may allow new wolf hunt

The Norwegian government, which dramatically pared back a major wolf hunt in Norway this winter on the grounds it could be illegal, was all but ordered...

New statistics may save the wolves

Never have state wildlife officials registered so few predator attacks on Norway's freely grazing livestock as in the past year. Hopes are rising that the...

Government won’t ban fur farms

The Norwegian government has backed away from calls to phase out the country's highly controversial fur industry. Despite repeated cases of animals found badly injured...

Wolves’ fate left up to this man

Norway's government minister in charge of environmental and climate issues, Vidar Helgesen, will now have to decide the fate up to 24 wolves that...

More suffering minks found at fur farms

Norwegian fur farms face a highly uncertain future after repeated reports of negligence and injured animals in recent years. Now state regulators have found...
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