A woman in Chile talking into a microphone at an event

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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.

Ways to help

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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Foie gras production typically involves feeding the animals through metal pipes forced down their throats, making their livers blow up to 10 times their natural size – a process known as gavage. The birds are then killed and their livers harvested as a fatty “delicacy.”
Urge Quebec to prohibit force-feeding for foie gras

Force-feeding animals until their organs become diseased urgently needs to end.

Black bear cub in tree

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Protect black bears from trophy hunting

The methods used to kill black bears is incredibly cruel and often cause poor outcomes.

Hammerhead shark swimming
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End the slaughter of marine animals

It’s time to end the needless cruelty and suffering caused by shark nets and lethal drumlines.

President Biden's cat Willow explores the White House

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Ban the cruel and inhumane declawing of cats!

Declawing is a painful, irreversible surgical procedure that amputates part of a cat’s toes.

Wolf

Harry Eggens

Stand up for wolves!

Gray wolves continue to face ongoing threats to their survival. We need your help to fight back!

Big cat in captivity

Humane World for Animals

End the captivity of wildlife for entertainment

Big cats, elephants and great apes are suffering in captivity across Canada.

Jo-Anne McArthur
Tell companies to say no to cruel fashion

The fur trade is harmful to animals, people and the environment.

Dogs on a dog meat farm
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Help dogs get a second chance in Canada

Allow rescue organizations in Canada to continue to help dogs from around the world.

Scientist bleeds Horseshoe Crabs

Jeff Rotman/Alamy Stock Photo

Protect horseshoe crabs

More than one million horseshoe crabs are taken from the wild every year and exploited. Horseshoe crabs belong in oceans, not laboratories.

Pangolin in Kalahari Desert, South Africa

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Help protect pangolins

Small and gentle pangolins are the most trafficked mammal in the world. Despite this, the majority of pangolin species are not protected. 

Lion at a roadside zoo

Michael Bernard

Stop the captivity of wildlife in Quebec

Help us ensure that no animal suffers at the hands of roadside zoos in Quebec ever again.

Rooster rescued from a suspected cockfighting crime ring

Kathy Milani/Humane World for Animals

Forced to fight, sometimes to the death.
Put an end to cockfighting

Each year, thousands of roosters suffer in fighting pits in the United States.

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