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South Africa faces growing stray animal crisis as World Stray Animal Day highlights urgent need for action
In advance of World Stray Animal Day on April 4, 2026, Humane World for Animals South Africa is calling for collective action to address the country’s escalating stray animal crisis.
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Rochester Institute of Technology becomes the first university in New York state to achieve 50% plant-based menu goal
Rochester Institute of Technology is the first university in New York state to reach a major dining milestone, achieving a campuswide menu that is now 50% plant-based. This achievement was made possible through a three-year collaboration between RIT Dining and Humane World for Animals.
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Iceland Fashion Week goes fur-free following shocking exposé of animal suffering on Icelandic mink farms
Iceland Fashion Week has introduced a fur-free policy for participating local and international designers.
Diana Rodriguez
Where are the best and worst countries to be a street dog this World Stray Animal Day?
WASHINGTON―In advance of World Stray Animal Day on 4 April, Humane World for Animals (formerly called Humane Society International) selects the five best and worst countries to be a dog living on t
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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.
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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
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