Darwin Animal Doctors: Helping Animals and the Ecosystem in the Galapagos
by Tod Emko, president of Darwin Animal Doctors The Galapagos Islands, an archipelago province of Ecuador, is a United Nations World Heritage Site. This globally important ecosystem lies on the...
View ArticleAction Alerts from the National Anti-Vivisection Society
Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called “Take Action Thursday,” which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a...
View ArticleBig Names in China Stand Up for Animals
Thank You, Yu Kewei, Ai Weiwei, Sun Li, and Yao Ming! Several celebrities in China, including pop singer Yu Kewei, artist Ai Weiwei, actress Sun Li, and former NBA star Yao Ming, following in the...
View ArticleIndiana Judge Takes Step Forward for Wild Animals
by John Melia — Our thanks to the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) for permission to republish this post, which originally appeared on the ALDF Blog on September 11, 2012. Melia is a Litigation Fellow...
View ArticleCelebrate National Bird Day, January 5
National Bird Day takes place annually in early January. This year, it’s tomorrow, January 5, 2013. National Bird Day is a time to think about birds, how they live, what they need, and how we treat...
View ArticleAction Alert from the National Anti-Vivisection Society
Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called “Take Action Thursday,” which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a...
View ArticleSocial Networking Against Animal Cruelty
Social Media and the Story of “Buck Needs Bucks” by Marla Rose “April is the cruellest month,” lamented T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land, but, if the ASPCA has anything to do with it, no month should...
View ArticleChallenging Assumptions About Dogs and First Nations
by Michelle Cliffe, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Communication Officer in Toronto, Canada Our thanks to IFAW and the author for permission to republish this report on dogs in First...
View ArticleEvery Life of Value
Humane Education for a Peaceful and Sustainable World by Zoe Weil This week Advocacy for Animals makes an encore presentation of an article that first appeared on our site in 2008: an introduction to...
View ArticleAction Alert from the National Anti-Vivisection Society
This week's Take Action Thursday reviews important federal legislation that needs attention now that Congress is back in session. It also reports on the U.S. decision to destroy stocks of illegal ivory...
View ArticleCrush the Ivory Trade
There it was, on display in Denver, Colorado at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge: nearly six tons of elephant ivory seized by dedicated U.S. wildlife law enforcement agents over more...
View ArticleHow Puppies Can Help the Incarcerated
"The inmates have taken tiny little creatures, who were not housebroken, did not know their names, and obeyed no commands, and have transformed them into well-behaved young pups who are a joy to be...
View ArticleAt Long Last, These Bears Are Saved
For millennia, traditional Chinese medicine has employed bear bile and gallbladder in its medicinal remedies to treat a range of ailments, from headaches to hemorrhoids. Increasingly, as the value of...
View ArticleA Sanctuary for Homeless Cattle: Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care Centre
The cow is a uniquely Indian symbol, revered and protected down the ages by Hindu and Mughal rulers alike. She became a point of honor during India’s freedom struggle and her protection was included in...
View ArticleThe International Crane Foundation
—by A. Wolff In Baraboo, Wisconsin, the International Crane Foundation (ICF) is fighting—and winning—the battle to save the world’s cranes. These long-legged and long-necked birds inhabit both wetlands...
View ArticleSaving the Endangered Mexican Gray Wolf
Today in the U.S., there is a single wild Mexican gray wolf population comprising only 83 individuals, all descendants of just seven wild founders of a captive breeding program. These wolves are...
View ArticleLocal Authority Calls for End to Bear Bile Tourism
by World Animal Protection — Our thanks to World Animal Protection (formerly the World Society for the Protection of Animals) for permission to repost this article, which was published on their blog on...
View ArticleWorld Day for Farmed Animals
World Day for Farmed Animals (WDFA), founded in 1983, is dedicated to exposing the needless suffering and death of sentient animals raised and slaughtered for food. World Day for Farmed Animals will...
View ArticleSeaWorld (S)cares
I have visited far, far too many captive animal facilities and exhibits in my life, and I can honestly say that I found the "One Ocean" orca show to be among the least informative, most unnatural, and...
View ArticleAnimals as Property: New Push for Special Legal Status
Animals are the only sentient beings Americans can legally own. In courtrooms, statehouses, and classrooms across the country, animal advocates are trying to change the "property status" of animals by...
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