One Year Later: Puppy Mill Dogs
In September 2011, HSI/Canada assisted the Quebec government in the rescue of 527 dogs and puppies from inhumane conditions at Canada’s largest commercial breeding facility. One year later, Canada celebrates this historic rescue with the Valley Mastiff Rescue, which helped find loving
Meatless Monday: Learn How Your Organization Can Get Involved
The Meatless Monday campaign asks consumers to go meat-free one day per week—and it’s a great way to help reduce the environmental, animal welfare, and other social impacts of raising 77 billion land animals each year for food worldwide. Here are some
Badgers and the Bern Convention
It’s not only badgers that are at risk from the UK government’s policy of killing the animals across large areas of countryside, in its misguided attempt to control TB in cattle. Badgers are key members of the ecosystems they inhabit. Indeed they
What You Can Do to Protect Badgers
Speak out against the badger cull The annual culling of badgers began in areas of Gloucestershire and Somerset in 2013 with contractors shooting badgers under a four year licence issued by Natural England. An additional licence was issued for an area of
Saying Yes to Culture, No to Cruelty: Teocelo Bans Bull Fiestas
by Alexandra Rothlisberger This past August, we visited the Mexican municipality of Teocelo to support Mayor Cristian Teczon’s decision to replace animal cruelty spectacles with music, dance and artistic performances. Teocelo, located in the Mexican state of Veracruz, has a little over
HSI Makes a Difference for Dogs in Mexico
by Alex Rothlisberger Seniso is the epitome of the Mexican roaming dog. His ears are covered in ticks, he looks thin and dehydrated, and he has a gash a few inches wide on his back full of pus. Every day, he wanders
First-Ever International Workshop on Elephant Immunocontraception Held in South Africa
It is ironic that, while elephant populations in many African and Asian countries are increasingly threatened by poaching for the illegal ivory trade, those herds confined to parks and reserves continue to grow and, if unchecked, can exceed available food and space
Fast Facts on Gestation Crates in Canada
More than 1.4 million breeding sows are kept on Canadian farms, the majority of them confined in cages know as gestation crates. A gestation crate is a metal stall measuring approximately 0.7 m (2 ft) by 2m (7 ft)—barely larger than a
Ban Gestation Crates
Pigs are extremely smart, social animals capable of feeling fear, pain, and stress. Studies show that they are more intelligent than dogs and even some primates, and scientists have demonstrated that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each