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Finally, 23 chimpanzees who are owned by the U.S. government and who were previously used in painful biomedical experiments will soon be moved to Chimp Haven sanctuary where they belong, according to an announcement made today by the National Institutes of Health in a New York Times article. After years of advocating for sending these chimps to sanctuary, we are thrilled by this news.

Some fights to protect animals turn out to be uphill battles that last for years, requiring a steadfast determination, resilience and consistency in advocacy, argumentation and campaigning. This has proven to be the case with banning wildlife killing contests in some parts of the country. Thankfully, our teams have shown they’ve got the strength to sustain the fight to end these spectacles as part of creating a safer and more compassionate world.

We continue to advance high-level action and advocacy to end the dog and cat meat trades in Indonesia as part of the Dog Meat Free Indonesia coalition: Three legislative proposals have been submitted this week by DMFI’s lawyers to the country’s parliament that, if voted into law, would transform protections for companion animals.

On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld New York’s landmark ban on the sale of elephant ivory and rhino horn. This is a heartening win for these animals because this ruling affirms the right of states such as New York to create laws that protect wildlife and end their own participation in markets for cruel products.

Keeping wild animals in small, bare cages inside a retail shopping mall is absurd and abhorrently cruel. Yet this is the business model of SeaQuest, a for-profit chain of shopping mall-based wild animal petting zoos that has been plagued with controversies and cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture more than 110 times for violations of the Animal Welfare Act. 

Seventy years ago, it was the status quo for cows, pigs and other animals to experience prolonged suffering during slaughter. It was the norm for dogs, chimpanzees, rabbits, rats, mice and other animals being used in research and testing to suffer terrible neglect and mistreatment.

We’re on a mission to make real, lasting change for animals. For over seven decades, our work has been motivated by the thought of a better world, one in which humans and animals live in harmony and no animal suffers from the actions of people.

While we and so many other wildlife enthusiasts and advocates have not forgotten the young wolf in Wyoming who endured horrific and prolonged suffering earlier this year, mem

Wolf restoration programs exist to bring the species back to habitats where they were wiped out. But a wolf family established by wolves previously captured in Oregon and reintroduced in Colorado has now been removed from the wild. 

Commitments to improve the quality of life for animals shouldn’t be empty promises.

Nearly 1 million horseshoe crabs are taken from the wild every year and used for their blue blood, which contains a special protein that can test for contamination of medical products.

As a dangerous heat wave sweeps the U.S., our professional sanctuary staff is providing Eve and our nearly 600 other rescued animals, spanning 42 different species, at Black Beauty Ranch with ways to keep cool, from pools to fountains to special popsicles. 

In a move that could end the animal fur trade in Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Council announced in May that it will ban all imports of fur and fur products produced using “methods that involve cruelty to animals."

Our approach to ending cruelty for farmed animals comes from two distinct angles.

Fighting to decrease the cruelty billions of animals suffer and championing a more plant-forward world to reduce the devastating impacts of industrial animal agriculture that wreak havoc on the environment is, in our view, essential for creating the kind of compassionate world we envision.

A new poll on farrowing crates, which confine and restrict mother pigs behind bars for up to five weeks around the time of giving birth, shows that more than two thirds of people in Britain reject such cruelty.

A decade ago, an American trophy hunter shot an African lion just outside Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park with an arrow. Like many hunters before and after him, he was seeking a trophy, a part of his kill that he could lawfully import back home to the United States. He could hang it on his wall, and have a story to tell, too. To his family. To his friends. To fellow hunters at Safari Club International conventions. It wouldn’t be his story to tell, in the end, because that trophy hunter shot a lion named Cecil, a majestic, studied and storied resident of the park—and left a firestorm of controversy in his wake.

Update May 19, 2025: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is scheduled to meet on May 21 to discuss whether to reopen the bear hunt, which would include allowing hounding