Dolphins Living in Despair in the Desert
The Mirage Hotel of Las Vegas keeps dolphins in tanks in the desert sun where they are forced to perform for tourists. The facility has a notoriously high mortality rate for dolphins.
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Octopus Farming: Another Step Towards an Environmental Catastrophe
As demand for octopus for consumption grows, efforts to farm these animals intensify, with terrible ethical and environmental consequences.
Cruel Chicken Toss and Pig Chase Happen Again
At Wisconsin’s Ridgeland Pioneer Days, chickens are thrown from rooftops into crowds and terrified pigs are chased and wrestled to the ground, all for “fun.”
True Beauty is Cruelty-Free: Support the Humane Cosmetics Act!
For the sake of new lipstick shades, skin creams, or shampoo formulas, animals endure torturous tests and suffer in silence in laboratories.
Cruelty as ‘Entertainment’: Circuses and Performing Animal Shows
All forms of entertainment that use captive wild animals to perform for humans are full of endless stress and suffering for the animals.
Poor Animal Welfare Laws May Lead to More Global Epidemics Like Coronavirus
New research reveals poor animal welfare practices in many countries worldwide, which provide the perfect breeding ground for viruses to mutate and spread.
Top 10 Reasons Why the Trump Administration is the Worst Ever for Wildlife
Of the many anti-environmental actions taken by this administration, these 10 policy changes have been most detrimental to wildlife and the places they live.
In Search of Explanations and the Truth
In the search to explain the world around us, sometimes our observations lead us to the wrong conclusions. That seems to be the case with a famous Russian experiment on domesticating foxes.
Outdoor Cat Management for Cats, Wildlife and People
In North America, Australia and New Zealand, suspicion and outright hostility continue to plague the debate over what to do about outdoor stray and feral cats.
First World Swift Day a Global Success
The first World Swift Day was celebrated in 39 countries with a wide variety of activities in order to spread knowledge about these fascinating birds and encourage their protection.
US Government Expands Mexican Seafood Ban to Save Vaquita Porpoise
The import ban places enormous pressure on the Mexican government to stop the use of deadly gillnets that are entangling, drowning, and killing the vaquita porpoise, whose population has likely dwindled to just 10 remaining animals.
Animal Protection Groups Sue USDA Over Slaughter of Sick, Injured Pigs
The U.S. federal government continues to treat pigs as industrial commodities to be produced as cheaply as possible, without regard for animal welfare or consumer safety.