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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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

Nearly 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.

Beagles in cages

The HSUS

Replace animal tests with alternatives

Support a switch from cruel animal experiments to cutting-edge test methods that are based on how the human body works.

Tiger in grass

Meredith Lee/Humane World for Animals

Protect big cats in South Africa

Humane World for Animals is advocating for change in South Africa to protect big cats.

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.

Yulin dog meat festival in China slaughters hundreds of dogs

Jiang Hong

Eradicate the dog and cat meat trade in China

Ask Premier Li Qiang to end this animal welfare and public health nightmare in and around Yulin.

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

Contact your Secretary of State and show your support for a ban on trophy hunting and trophy hunting memorabilia.

Vegan market food

Subodh Agnihotri

Join the plant-based revolution

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

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