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Mistreated exotic animals highlight the need for Better CARE for Animals Act

The mistreatment of animals is a matter of injustice, and so it’s only fitting that the U.S. Department of Justice stepped in...

Animal testing
Scientist advancing alternatives to animal experiments honored with HSUS/HSI award  

This week, we presented the Russell & Burch Award to Dr. Donald Ingber, a professor at Harvard University and the founding...

Farmed animal welfare
EATS Act could devour animal welfare laws and must be stopped

Americans are taking a stand against one of the gravest assaults on animal welfare, unfolding right now in the U.S. Congress...

Wildlife protection
Trophy hunters say they economically benefit local communities. Audit tells another story. 

Those involved in trophy hunting are quick to tout its purported benefits to local communities in the nations in which their...

Animal testing Wildlife protection
Alleged monkey conspiracy at Inotiv highlights need to end animal testing

The hurt and harm of animal testing can extend beyond what happens in laboratories, as a new scandal concerning one major...

Wildlife protection
Remembering the life of Tokitae, AKA Lolita, the orca whale

On Friday afternoon, news broke that the 57-year-old solitary orca at Miami Seaquarium known as “Lolita” died suddenly of...

Protecting equines
Breaking: New regulations could finally protect horses from ‘soring’ cruelty

There’s new hope for ending the painful practice of horse soring: a long-awaited new administrative rule from the U.S...

Disasters in Greece, Beijing, Maui and elsewhere highlight the need to help animals

In the aftermath of devastating wildfires that claimed the lives of a still unknown number of people on Maui, we mourn with...

Wildlife protection
Undercover sting busts black-market ring of snake traffickers in Florida

Forest cobra, inland taipan, bushmaster, rhinoceros viper, African bush viper, Gaboon viper, green mamba, eyelash viper, puff...