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Standing in the burning heat, jabbed with metal hooks, with chains cutting into their flesh - this is the cruel reality behind elephant tourism in Thailand. And tourists from Britain unwittingly play a part in their torment.

There are more than 200 unethical elephant venues in Thailand where visitors demand selfies with these majestic animals or clamber aboard their backs to ride through the jungle.

Irish Gardaí have begun an investigation after a gang of cattle rustlers have struck again, stealing seven animals worth up to €15,000 from an unoccupied mountain farm near the Cork-Kerry border on Christmas Eve.

An endangered species of bumblebee has been spotted for the first time in 44 years in south Devon.

High-tech laser therapy is now being used at Paignton Zoo to treat animals - and is already showing promising results.

The therapy involves using specific wavelengths of light in a process called photobiomodulation.