Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a final rule governing import permits for live African elephants and elephant hunting “trophies.” This action...
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 credit: Liam Robinson
Heartbreaking news out of Zimbabwe today as WAN learns that a revered male lion, named Mopane, has been killed by a trophy hunter...
Photo By: E. Bennett, Wildlife Conservation Society
The global trade in wild animals has produced conditions for disastrous and deadly pandemics, including COVID-19. That is...
Born Free USA launched a comprehensive new report today on animal trapping in the United States, amending and updating work carried out in 2017 and providing...
This week, A federal judge halted logging and road construction for the large Knotty Pine timber sale project in the Kootenai National Forest. The project...
Photo by: Sierra Club
The developers of the controversial PennEast Pipeline project just announced that they are cancelling the project after being denied necessary water...