History of India’s Animal Welfare Movement Revealed in New Book by Dr. Prashanth Krishna
The new book reveals the history of animal welfare in India and the leadership of activists and organizations in Madras-Chennai.
Animal Welfare and Biodiversity: A Brief Primer on the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework
Animal welfare is closely intertwined with many of the issues under negotiation in the CBD’s new Biodiversity Framework.
Animal Welfare and Biodiversity: A Brief Primer on the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework
Animal welfare is closely intertwined with many of the issues under negotiation in the CBD’s new Biodiversity Framework.
The Dangerous Rhetoric of Contemporary Animal Rights Law: A Review of Marek Muller’s Impersonating Animals
Muller’s text offers a direct challenge to the burgeoning animal law movement, asking advocates and lawyers to interrogate their tactics, rhetoric, and goals.
Have Humans Evolved to Harm Animals? An Interview with Dr. Diana Fleischman
What insight does an evolutionary perspective bring to movements to reduce animal suffering? Can an understanding of the evolution of human psychology and behavior challenge widely-held ideas about why we mistreat animals?
The Dangerous Rhetoric of Contemporary Animal Rights Law: A Review of Marek Muller’s Impersonating Animals
Muller’s text offers a direct challenge to the burgeoning animal law movement, asking advocates and lawyers to interrogate their tactics, rhetoric, and goals.
Animal Welfare and Biodiversity: A Brief Primer on the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework
Animal welfare is closely intertwined with many of the issues under negotiation in the CBD’s new Biodiversity Framework.
Why Ending Animal Agriculture Could Save the Planet
Concentrating solely on eliminating fossil fuel usage while ignoring animal agriculture will not be enough to halt global warming.
Why Ending Animal Agriculture Could Save the Planet
Concentrating solely on eliminating fossil fuel usage while ignoring animal agriculture will not be enough to halt global warming.
Can Biologists Describe New Species Without Killing Them?
Typically, when describing a new species, biologists kill a member of the species to serve as a physical specimen. It’s time to rethink this practice.
Animal Welfare and Biodiversity: A Brief Primer on the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework
Animal welfare is closely intertwined with many of the issues under negotiation in the CBD’s new Biodiversity Framework.
Why Ending Animal Agriculture Could Save the Planet
Concentrating solely on eliminating fossil fuel usage while ignoring animal agriculture will not be enough to halt global warming.
Animal News Stories from Around the Web
In recent years, major news outlets have started taking note of the animal movement, and including coverage of animal rights, welfare, and conservation issues on a daily basis. Check out our curated selection of top stories from around the world, updated every day.
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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 8 years, 3 months agohttp://www.thehinducentre.com/the-arena/current-issues/article8119877.ece
Jallikattu as a Spectacle of PatriarchyJallikattu has become a contentious issue wherein cattle protection and rights are interwoven with human identity politics in India. In this article, Yamini Narayanan writes that the bull-subjugation competition, which has been promoted as a celebration of cattle during the Pongal festivities in Tamil Nadu, is in reality only an extension of one of the most enduring oppressions — speciesism.
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Wolf Gordon Clifton posted an update 8 years, 3 months agoMy family has lost pets to coyotes before, but we would never support exterminating them like this. Why? Because they’re a natural predator, we’re the ones encroaching on their territory, and it’s our responsibility to keep our pets out of harm’s way, not theirs. Coyotes are very close relatives to dogs, and very similar in intelligence and…[Read more]
Ask Laguna Beach to stop year-round mass killing of coyotes!USING CITY FUNDS TO KILL WILDLIFE On January 12, 2016, the Laguna Beach City Council voted and approved (4-1) allocation of at least $30,000.00 of taxpayer money toward year-round coyote trapping and killing, believing this will result in safer conditions for small pets. It will not. No matter how many coyotes are exterminated, more will move into the vacant territory - it will never be safe to leave small pets outdoors or walk small pets without taking precautions. VIOLATING STATE LAW To date, the City of Laguna Beach maintains the contractor employed to trap and kill the coyotes is within the law, setting traps within 150 yards of homes without those homeowners' written consent. This is a violation of the California Code of Regulations Title 14 Section 465.5 (g)(3), which requires the trapper receive written consent of neighboring homeowners before setting a trap. Laguna Beach steps up effort to trap, kill coyotes despite animal advocates' claims that city is violating state law RISK TO OTHER ANIMALS AND PETS Trapping is indiscriminate. Pets and other wild animals, such as bobcats and fox have been snared and strangled in traps meant for coyotes. Coyote snare traps called inhumane, L.A. councilman wants to ban them Video of an animal control officer attempting to release a coyote from a snare COYOTES ARE GASSED - BARBARIC AND INHUMANE Critter Busters uses a 'mobile gas chamber' to kill captured coyotes using CO2, claiming it is humane and an 'approved' method for killing. Approved for small animals, the use of carbon dioxide on large animals can cause pain and suffering. Seal Beach Councilman Mike Levitt regretted approving the contract with Critter Busters when he realized the animals suffered, "I found out [afterward]that the animal does not go to sleep. There are spasms. They choke." In 2013, the American Veterinary Medical Association changed their approval of CO2 gas to 'acceptable with conditions'. The European Food Safety Authority and the World Society for the Protection of Animals consider CO2 an unacceptable method for euthanasia. Seal Beach Decides Its Coyote-Killing Mobile Gas Chambers Are Kinda Creepy The Gas Chamber Debate Not Acceptable THERE IS A BETTER WAY Attempts to reduce the coyote population in Laguna Beach will be short-lived as coyotes from the surrounding area will move into the habitat. When they are exterminated, new ones will move in. So, the answer is not to try to control coyote populations, but to manage the habitat - the neighborhoods, to make them less attractive, less hospitable. The long-term answer is for residents to learn how to live safely and respectfully with neighboring wildlife. We propose the City of Laguna Beach adopt a Coyote Management Plan similar to the one adopted by the City of Calabasas, where lethal control is used only when a human is threatened or injured by a coyote. Coyote Management Plan Year-round coyote trapping and killing is not the answer!
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Wolf Gordon Clifton posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
This is a really fascinating read: the “Wild Field Manifesto,” written by a Russian scientist currently working to recreate an Ice Age ecosystem in Siberia (eventually complete with genetically resurrected mammoths). He argues that all the environmental disasters we presently face trace their origins back to the late Pleistocene, when humans,…[Read more]
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
No Ban Yet, But NYC Takes Step in the Right Direction to Retire Carriage Horses http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/nyc-to-take-step-in-right-direction-to-retire-carriage-horses/
No Ban Yet, But NYC Takes Step in the Right Direction to Retire Carriage HorsesThe decision is being called a compromise between animal rights advocates and industry union leaders.
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Anita Mayangpuspa posted an update 8 years, 3 months ago
In the video, Goodall breaks it down quite simply,”… In order to feed the billions and billions of cows and pigs and chickens … you have to admit huge areas of forest are cut down to grow grain to feed them. Intensive cattle grazing is turning forests to woodland, to scrubland. And food in one end, gas out both ends, that’s methane. And that’s…[Read more]
