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...
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted last week to protect Southern Resident orcas under the state’s Endangered Species Act, responding to a February...
On behalf of Red Wolf Coalition, Defenders of Wildlife, and Animal Welfare Institute, the Southern Environmental Law Center sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
Sadly, new research by World Animal Protection reveals that the United States continues to lag behind many other countries in its protections for farmed animals...
Photos from Invisible Animals, Facebook page
Animal welfare organization Nähtamatud Loomad, also known as Invisible Animals, recently made history in Estonia by assembling on the Polish-Ukrainian border...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a rule yesterday removing 21 species from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species...
Global Conservation has established a new $50 million Global Parks Fund focused on protecting endangered National Parks in developing countries.
The organization is the only...