Last week, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed H.B. 1097 into law. The legislation will prohibit the sale of cosmetics in Washington that have been...
Last week, conservation groups petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to protect five imperiled populations of the western burrowing owl under the California...
It has been reported that another “super tusker” elephant bull, from the Amboseli elephant population, has been shot and killed in the Enduimet Wildlife Management...
Yesterday, The Center for Biological Diversity increased the total reward to $15,000 for information leading to a conviction in the illegal killing of a...
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...
The Orangutan Project, an organization that focuses on securing the survival of orangutans and other Critically Endangered species in Indonesia, has seen an alarming increase in...
In Defense of Animals and Tucson-based Supporting and Promoting Ethics for the Animal Kingdom (SPEAK) protested animal cruelty at the Tucson Rodeo on its opening...
Illustration by Frédérique Lucas
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided this week to maintain the “in danger” status for the habitat of the critically endangered...
Scotland has just banned the shooting of seals by the fisheries industry in a move that the Humane Society International/UK calls "critically important for seal welfare...
Earlier this year, Norway, Finland, and Sweden had plans to cull wolves for so-called “population control,” prompting animal welfare organizations to call on the...