Sr. Consuelo Peset Laudeña's morning routine is not what one would typically expect from an abbess. Before prayers and breakfast, she heads to inspect, one by one, cages housing 35 giant rabbits and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuns in Spain are trying to save a rare breed of giant rabbit from extinction. Sister Consuelo Peset Laudeña told Global Sisters ...

Genetic selection in rabbit breeding has focused on enhancing key reproductive traits such as litter size, kit survival, growth rate and reproductive longevity. Early programmes often targeted single ...

Fifteen young New England cottontail rabbits born at a New York City zoo have been released into the wild in Maine as part of an effort to save the only rabbit species native to New England from ...

To fund their conservation efforts, the nuns sell homemade candies and ice cream Spanish giant rabbits, weighing up to 20 pounds, were a vital food source during the Spanish Civil War, but now the ...

In the tranquil setting of the Convent of St. Anthony of Padua, surrounded by stone walls, hidden somewhere in the heart of Spain, morning would usually come amidst prayers whispered softly and the ...

A group of nuns in central Spain is working to protect a rare breed of giant rabbit from extinction. The 11 Franciscan sisters at the Convent of St. Anthony of Padua in Castile-La Mancha, Spain, are ...