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a group of chickens in a cage

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Farmed animal welfare United States
Update on our involvement with G.A.P.

Humane World for Animals has stepped down from its position on the board of directors for Global Animal Partnership, a seat that we have held since the group was formed in 2008. During our tenure, we consistently advocated for animal welfare improvements

Bricks and Wood hedader

Humane World for Animals

United States
Humane World for Animals and Bricks & Wood launch compassionate capsule collection at ComplexCon

The collection fuses purpose with culture, with the goal of ending animal cruelty on a global scale.

Lions rescued from a roadside zoo in Quebec resting in their temporary enclosures

Michael Bernard/Humane World for Animals Canada

Helping captive wildlife Canada
Rescued lions from Quebec roadside zoo transported to sanctuary in the United States
TORONTO—Following a lifesaving lion rescue from a roadside zoo in Quebec, six lions are leaving their temporary home where they have been cared for by Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Ontario, to go to their permanent sanctuary destination at Turpentine Creek Wildlife
A fox stands in a cage at a fur farm in Ohio, just before being rescued.

Meredith Lee/Humane World for Animals

United States
Two-thirds of Massachusetts voters back fur ban ahead of Beacon Hill hearing

Massachusetts lawmakers will soon face a clear choice: stand with two-thirds of their voters, who support ending the sale of fur from animals farmed for their pelts, or stand behind an industry that profits from cruelty.

Fox fur farm investigation in Finland, carried out by Humane World for Animals in collaboration with Finnish animal protection group Oikeutta eläimille in late October 2024.

Kristo Muurimaa

Europe
EU fur farming has been unprofitable for years and costs EU citizens €446 million a year, new report finds

BRUSSELS - Animal protection groups have renewed their call on the European Commission to bring forward an EU-wide ban on fur farming and trade as they launched a new economic report in Parliament today showing that fur farming is so financially unviable

Black bear at Yellowstone National Park

Wendy Keefover/Humane World for Animals

Wildlife protection United States
Newly compiled data: Over 1 million black bears have been killed for trophies by hunters in America in the last 25 years
WASHINGTON—Newly compiled data by Humane World for Animals, formerly called the Humane Society of the United States, reveal that more than 1 million bears (1,014,773) have been legally trophy hunted in the U.S. between 2000 and 2024. An unknown number of dependent
International Summit of Environmental Prosecutors

Miriam Arias/Humane World for Animals

International meeting on animal welfare law enforcement held
MEXICO CITY. – With the objective of establishing pathways and best practices that favor the actions of the Attorney General's Offices in the handling and investigation of cases of animal abuse, the Environmental Attorney General's Offices of the Central Region of the
Macaque

Anup Shah/Getty Images

Wildlife protection Canada
Humane World for Animals Canada demands immediate ban on endangered wild monkey imports

OTTAWA, Ontario—Humane World for Animals Canada, formerly called Humane Society International, is calling on the federal government to immediately end the inhumane importation of wild-caught macaques. Earlier this year, there was speculation and outrage that macaques imported from Cambodia and labeled as

a person holding a bird

Sally Varma/Humane World for Animals

Farmed animal welfare India
Tweety, the tiny chick discarded as trash, lives her best life in loving family

HYDERABAD, India—In advance of World Hen Day on Oct. 10, Humane World for Animals celebrates the heart-warming story of a tiny chick called Tweety. She was left for dead on a trash pile at one of India’s largest egg farms but rescued

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