Update: Washington state has officially banned octopus farming following Governor Jay Inslee's signature on House Bill 1153 on March 13th.
This legislative action marks a...
Last week, New York State Senator Liz Krueger and Assembly Member Kenneth Zebrowski announced that they will be introducing a revised version of their...
U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced a bipartisan bill, the Preventing Future Pandemics Act, which would direct the State Department to...
China has upgraded the national protection status of its native pangolin species, in particular the Chinese Pangolin Manis pentadactyla, to Class I, the highest form...
1. Congratulations to Joaquin Phoenix for winning Best Actor at the Oscars for his outstanding performance in the Joker.
Joaquin gave an inspirational speech using...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a new directive that bans wildlife imports and closes illegal wildlife markets, a move applauded by...
This week, the U.S. District Court of Kansas struck down nearly all of Kansas’s “Ag-Gag” laws for violating the First Amendment. The law, which gagged...
Photos by Svitlana Dmytrenko / FOUR PAWS
Global animal welfare organization FOUR PAWS has successfully rescued and transferred a 20-year-old Ukrainian ‘restaurant bear’ to its...
Conservation groups petitioned the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission yesterday for rules limiting when the state can kill endangered wolves over conflicts with livestock. The state...
Photo By: FOUR PAWS
A new report on live animal transports in Romania published by the EU Commission identifies severe shortcomings with regard to animal...
Last week marked the completion of a collaborative effort aimed at removing abandoned fishing gear from the habitat of the critically endangered vaquita porpoise.
The...