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Second Chance Chimpanzee Refuge Liberia celebrates 11-year anniversary of caring for former laboratory chimps
MONROVIA―Second Chance Chimpanzee Refuge Liberia, based in Margibi County and with a set of estuarine sanctuary islands in the Farmington and Grand Bassa rivers, is celebrating 11 years of car
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Reforms to modernize drug testing continue at Food and Drug Administration
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made further progress toward replacing animal use in testing with suitable non-animal methods.
Juho Kerola
First ever Icelandic fur farm exposé highlights urgent need for UK Government action to end involvement in brutal fur trade
LONDON―Campaigners at Humane World for Animals UK (formerly called Humane Society International UK) are calling on the UK Government to act swiftly to end the import and sale of fur as the fir
Juho Kerola
Calls for Icelandic fur farm ban as first ever exposé reveals shocking suffering
The Icelandic government is under pressure to ban fur farming after the first ever fur farm undercover investigation in the country reveals shocking levels of animal suffering including animals wit
80,000 EU citizens sign letter to Commissioner Várhelyi calling for an EU-wide fur farming ban
BRUSSELS – A letter signed by more than 80,000 EU citizens was submitted today in Brussels by Humane World for Animals Europe to Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi, calling for an EU-wide ban on fur farm
Chloe Emond-Lane
Amazing survival of Phoenix the dog who escaped death during a fire at a South Korean dog meat farm and found a family in Canada
QUEBEC, Canada―Phoenix the dog quite literally rose from the ashes when she survived a devastating fire at a dog meat farm in South Korea, narrowly escaped being sold back into the meat trade and w
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Livelihood transition program on Indonesia’s Timor Island helps local drive to end the dog meat trade that kills 1 million dogs nationwide
KUPANG, Indonesia (March 6, 2026)― A dog slaughterhouse owner and a dog meat restaurant owner in Nusa Tenggara Timur province, who between them have been slaughtering or serving up dogs for more th
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