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...
Photo from In Defense of Animals
The University of Memphis has traveled with a live tiger as the team's mascot to football games for more than four decades. Over...
Photos from Amber Rose, Facebook page
While WAN often covers heartbreaking cases of sickening hunters senselessly killing innocent animals for nothing more than a “trophy”...
Photos by: Sea Shepherd
Animal activists from around the world are mourning the death of hundreds of whales and dolphins after the Faroe Islands’ horrific...