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Giraffes, elephants and other animals win big at global wildlife trade conference
The world’s largest wildlife trade conference has just wrapped up in Geneva and as our own Humane Society International team returns home, we are celebrating big wins for 135 wild animal species, including the giraffe, African elephant and southern white rhino.
Breaking: Undercover investigation reveals a thriving ivory trade in Maryland, driving cruel slaughter of elephants
Today, we’re releasing the findings of our undercover investigation revealing a thriving market for ivory products in Maryland.
At Safari Club convention, vendors peddle canned lion hunts, elephant and hippo body parts
A canvas made of a whole elephant’s ear. Belts made with hippo skin. Elephant skin furniture. The annual Safari Club International convention in Reno, Nevada, had plenty on view that would shock and sicken the average person.
In historic step forward, nations signal strong support to end capture and export of wild African elephants to zoos
Delegates at the world’s largest conference on endangered species have voted to end the cruel capture and export of wild African elephants to zoos worldwide, giving these beleaguered animals, already under attack from trophy hunters and poachers, a historic win.
Elephant who escaped circus last year forced to perform under threat of illegal bullhook in Indianapolis
Viola is on my mind once again, as our Indiana state director brought to my attention that bullhook-wielding handlers forced Viola and another elephant named Kelly to perform at the Murat Shrine Circus in Indianapolis.
Extinct woolly mammoth proposal withdrawn but global wildlife conference agrees to study mammoth ivory trade to determine its impact on elephant ivory trade
GENEVA—A proposal to list the extinct woolly mammoth on Appendix II was withdrawn at the meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Geneva.
Proposal to ‘protect’ long-extinct woolly mammoth at upcoming CITES conference is latest bid to save elephants from global ivory trade
WASHINGTON—A proposal to give protection status to the woolly mammoth, a species that has been extinct for 10,000 years, is the latest attempt by conservation-minded countries to stop its genetic cousin the African elephant from following in the mammoth’s giant footsteps by slipp
HSUS, HSI challenge U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over information blackout on lion and elephant trophy imports
Each year, American trophy hunters import a staggering 126,000 hunting trophies into the United States. This includes elephants and lions – animals whose numbers in the wild are in decline. That’s right.
Elephant trophy imports soar in Trump’s second term
WASHINGTON—A new case study prepared by the Center for Biological Diversity shows that the Trump administration permitted the import of more than 300 elephant troph
Snakes in India, dingoes in Australia, elephants in South Africa: HSI works globally to resolve human-wildlife conflicts
A 12-year-old student, on his way home from school in India, is bitten by a snake.
Humane World for Animals Hawthorne Heights
Research collaboration aims to improve well-being for elephants and co-existence with people
CAPE TOWN—Humane Society International/Africa (HSI/Africa) and the Elephant Reintegration Trust (ERT) have joined forces in a research project that could change the way that elephants are managed in South Africa in the future.
860 animal lives on offer at trophy hunters' Reno convention; elephants, wolves, leopards and black bears in peril
Next Wednesday, trophy hunters with a yen for slaying some of the world’s most endangered and threatened animals will gather in Reno, Nevada, for the annual Safari Club International convention.
Cuddling a baby tiger or riding an elephant could leave you more guilty than gratified, study says
Walking alongside a lion in South Africa or feeding a baby tiger with a milk bottle at a roadside zoo stateside as you smile into the camera might seem like a novel idea, but it never has a good outcome for the animal.
