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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Following a campaign by PETA garnering more than 280,000 e-mails from concerned shoppers, Sephora has confirmed that they have banned mink-fur eyelashes and will purchase...
The Center for Biological Diversity, the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, and Sierra Club recently petitioned the U.S. Fish and...
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...
Following last year’s devastating fires in the Amazon Rainforest, Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose), along with Senator Ben Allen, Assemblymembers: Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), Eduardo...
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is conducting an Ecological Risk Assessment for the most dangerous Anticoagulant Rodenticides which are used to poison and...