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...
According to news sources in Iceland, Kristjan Loftsson, who is the last whaler in Iceland, is currently shipping 2,576 tons of whale meat to Japan.
This has...
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”...
Washington’s Fish and Wildlife Commission is set to consider a rule change that would end the bloodsport known as hunting contests.
As per a statement...
Save Our Shearwaters (SOS) is a small nonprofit on the island of Kauai thats impact on native Hawaiian species is monumental and much-needed.
As the...
Photos by: Jean Chung for HSI
South Korean Democratic Party Assembly Member Jeoung-ae Han has just introduced legislation that seeks to eliminate the dog meat industry...
Photos from BEAR SANCTUARY Ninh Binh, Facebook
In the largest bear rescue World Animal Protection has ever supported, nine bears have been saved from three...