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...
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The city of Zhuhai in Guangdong province, has become the second city in mainland China to ban the consumption of...
Last week, United States Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Gary Peters of Michigan reintroduced the Animal Freedom from Testing, Experimentation, and Research (AFTER) Act....
Members of an international primate smuggling ring have been charged with multiple felonies for participating in bringing wild long-tailed macaques that were falsely labelled...
Photo by HSI
Last week, four leading animal protection organizations—the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Born Free USA, FOUR PAWS USA and Last...
Last week, the National Marine Fisheries Service notified Oceana that the Biden administration rejected Oceana’s emergency petition calling for increased protections for critically endangered...