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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Beagles in cages

The HSUS

Replace animal experiments with sophisticated alternatives

Every day, in labs around the world, dogs, monkeys, mice and other animals endure a life of misery. Demand that governments, companies, and universities stop relying on outdated animal experiments use non-animal science!

Tiger in grass

Meredith Lee/Humane World for Animals

Urge the South African government to protect big cats!

All big cats—tigers, cheetahs, leopards and jaguars—should stay wild.

Photo by the HSUS

At the killing contest in Williamsport, Indiana, contestants drag coyotes they massacred. They punch holes into the animals' legs so they can hang them upside down and weigh them.
US: Fight for a federal ban on wildlife killing contests

Please act now to ban wildlife killing contests in the United States.

Gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park
Nathan Hobbs, iStock
British Columbia: End wildlife killing contests

Please act now to help ban wildlife killing contests in British Columbia.

Hens in battery cages

Compassion Over Killing

Ask Loblaw to be a hero for animals!

Canada’s largest grocery retailer, has walked back its commitment to go 100% cage-free by 2025. As a market leader, Loblaw has the power to drive real progress for millions of hens across Canada. Urge the company to eliminate cages entirely—not just battery cages—and stick to a truly cage-free future.

Yulin dog meat festival in China slaughters hundreds of dogs

Jiang Hong

Urge China to stop Yulin’s dog and cat meat cruelty

Ask Premier Li Qiang to end the animal welfare and public health nightmare of Yulin’s dog and cat meat trade.

Fox in a cage on a fur farm

Jo-Anne McArthur/SPCA Montreal

Help us end fur cruelty 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.