Taking action for animals

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Make your voice count

Your voice is needed on these important issues. Here’s how you can take action — and why it matters.

Your actions make a difference

Make sure your elected officials know that you are an advocate for animals. When you contact your elected official, you’re putting a face and a name on an issue.

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Fox in a cage on a fur farm

Jo-Anne McArthur/SPCA Montreal

Help ban the fur trade in the UK

Help end the cruel fur trade in the UK. Sign our Fur-Free Britain petition today!

Photo by Alamy

The most widely read blog this year was about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife agency announcing it will allow a Texas billionaire to import the trophy of a black rhino he had killed in Namibia.
Stop trophy hunting in the UK

Show your support for a ban on hunting trophies.

Vegan market food
Subodh Agnihotri
EatKind

Join the plant-based revolution and pledge to EatKind for animals, people and the planet.

Ten-day-old harp seal pup fur starting to turn black, Iles de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada.

Keren Su/iStock.com

You can save the seals

Urge Canada's new administration to protect seals now and transition those involved in the industry to sustainable, humane livelihoods that can bring in far more revenue.

HSI
Protect Proposition 12

Pigs deserve to turn around! Proposition 12 provides farm animals with basic protections like this, and more.

Cecil and his cubs
Brent Stapelkamp
Sign the pledge to end trophy hunting

Every year, hundreds of thousands of wild animals are killed solely to obtain "trophies"—heads, hides or pelts and even whole animals—to stuff, skin and hang on a wall.

Trophy hunted parts of animals

Humane World for Animals

Killed for their parts.
Urge the European Union to stop importing hunting trophies

Nearly 15,000 hunting trophies of species at risk like elephants, lions, giraffes, polar bears and black rhinos were imported into the EU between 2014 and 2018. 

A beluga whale on display at Marineland
End animal neglect and suffering in marine captivity

Since 2019, 16 beluga whales and one orca whale have died at Marineland, the last remaining place in Canada holding whales in captivity. 

Dogs caught up in the dog meat trade

Alokparna Sengupta/Humane World for Animals

End the cruel dog and cat meat trades worldwide

Speak out against the cruel, unnecessary and dangerous dog and cat meat trade.

Cat rescued from the cat meat trade in Viet Nam

Meredith Lee/Humane World for Animals

A sick cat awaits rescue at a cat fattening facility where they would be destined for the cat meat trade, in Thai Nguyen province, Viet Nam in June 2024.
End the cruel dog and cat meat trades in Viet Nam

Every year, millions of dogs and cats, including many stolen pets, are trafficked throughout Viet Nam to supply markets, slaughterhouses and restaurants.

Sad tiger in circus cage

Linleo/iStock.com

Urge Shriners to adopt an animal-free circus policy

Join us in urging Shriners International to prohibit local chapters from using sensitive wild animals in their circuses.

A man holds his dog at HSUS’s Rural Area Veterinary Services (RAVS) program, Taholah, Quinault Nation, WA.

Ron Wurzer/AP Images for the HSUS

Support pet equity

Pets and their families belong together. Help us increase access to affordable veterinary care, pet food and pet-inclusive housing.