31 MarBlindrafélagið, the Icelandic Association of the Visually Impaired (BIAVI), launched a fundraiser yesterday to ensure that more guide dogs can be brought to Iceland.
2 Feb 2022A Russian Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane, transporting dogs and cats from Afghanistan, landed at Keflavík International Airport at 5 am yesterday en route to Vancouver, Canada.
21 Jan 2022A newly published article in the nature journal Náttúrufræðingurinn reveals that in 2019, sheep on Flatey island in Breiðafjörður fjord, West Iceland, were seen pushing an Arctic tern off its nest and eating its eggs.
18 Jan 2022The Environment Agency of Iceland has decided to renew the operating license of the biotech firm Ísteka ehf., which produces hormonal drugs for sows from the blood of pregnant mares.
23 Nov 2021The Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority (MAST) is examining a video, made by AWF/TSB (Animal Welfare Foundation/Tierschutzbund Zürich), showing blood being extracted from pregnant mares in Iceland.
1 Oct 2021With the help of rescue workers, farmers at Hæli in Húnavatnshreppur district, Northwest Iceland, managed to save all their sheep that got stuck in snow in Tuesday’s blizzard.
21 Sep 2021A visitor in Höfn, Hornafjörður fjord, Southeast Iceland, appears to be one who wreaked havoc in Ireland in the summer, causing damage to numerous boats in Cork, two of which sank.
4 Sep 2021Sæunnarsund, an annual swimming event, was held in the West Fjords last Saturday to commemorate the heroic act of the cow Sæunn that swam across the fjord in 1987.
26 Jun 2021When Einar Á. Sæmundsen, director of Þingvellir National Park, came to work last week, he was startled to see the signs of an attempted burglary.
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