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...
Last week, Mercy For Animals announced that Representatives Haley Stevens of Michigan and Veronica Escobar of Texas sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting that the...
Photo credit: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information that leads...
Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a constitutional challenge to San Francisco’s ban on the sale of...
The dog meat trade tragically exists throughout China, but the annual Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in Yulin epitomizes the suffering and brutality of this...
Customs officials in Hong Kong make the largest shark fin seizure of 26 tons of shark fins taken from 38,500 endangered sharks. They were discovered in two...
The New York Cruelty Free Cosmetics Act, a bill introduced by Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal and State Senator Alessandra Biaggi to prohibit the sale...