Humane Society International joins with veterinary groups to provide medical care to nearly 200 animals during health fair in Talamanca
LIMÓN, Costa Rica—During the month of September, Humane Society International/Latin America participated in an animal health fair that took place in the indigenous community of Suretka, Talamanca, in the province of Limón. The purpose of the fair was to provide local animals
Simon Cowell donates £25,000 to help charity rescue dogs from death row on South Korean dog meat farm
WASHINGTON–Music mogul Simon Cowell is supporting animal charity Humane Society International’s bid to close down a dog meat farm in South Korea and rescue the more than 200 dogs and puppies caged inside who would otherwise be killed and eaten. The dogs
Canadians have spoken: ban strychnine and other deadly poisons now before another animal dies in agony
MONTREAL—As federal consultations on the use of strychnine come to a close – and following the recent highly publicized tragic deaths of two family dogs, Rue and Ruby from strychnine poisoning – animal protection and conservation groups have aligned with scientists to
Humane Society International/India marks World Rabies Day through massive vaccination drives in six cities
HYDERABAD—In observance of World Rabies Day, Humane Society International/India is organizing rabies vaccination drives on the 27th and 28th of September in 14 locations across six cities: Malappuram in Kerala, Vadodara and Jamnagar (Gujarat), and Dehradun, Mussoorie and Nainital (Uttarakhand). Rabies vaccination
Simon Cowell donates £25,000 to help UK charity rescue dogs from death row on South Korean dog meat farm
LONDON–Music mogul Simon Cowell is supporting animal charity Humane Society International’s bid to close down a dog meat farm in South Korea and rescue the more than 200 dogs and puppies caged inside who would otherwise be killed and eaten. The dogs
To mark World Rabies Day, animal charity uses game-changer smartphone app to vaccinate dogs in the Philippines, with global potential
MEDIA DOWNLOADS MANILA, Philippines—Leading up to World Rabies Day on Sept. 28, Humane Society International’s Street Dog Defender veterinarians and Filipino actress Sharmaine Arnaiz went door to door in the Payatas for a mass dog vaccination drive to help the Philippines tackle
Animal charities warn global goal to end rabies by 2030 is impossible without worldwide ban on brutal dog and cat meat trade
LONDON—Eighty-three animal charities from across the world, including Humane Society International, Change for Animals Foundation, the Jane Goodall Institute, FOUR PAWS, and Animals Asia, have called for stronger action by governments to tackle the significant threat of rabies posed by the brutal
Le Pain Quotidien joins the list of companies in Mexico adopting a "no-cage" egg policy
MEXICO CITY—Humane Society International applauds bakery-restaurant corporation Le Pain Quotidien for joining the list of food and hospitality companies in Mexico that are adopting a cage-free egg policy, committing to switch to 100 percent cage-free eggs by 2025 or sooner. This pledge
U.S. officials urged to reconsider approval of black rhino trophy import
WASHINGTON—Conservation and animal-welfare groups today urged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider a federal decision to allow a Texas billionaire to import a critically endangered black rhino shot as a trophy hunt in Namibia. The
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