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.
Browsing: Politics
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.
U.S. House Reintroduces Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act to Protect Sharks from Cruel Finning
The bill would help to curb an inhumane global trade that claims the lives of 73 million sharks each year.
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.
State Animal Protection Laws Ranked: Maine is #1, New Mexico #50
“Even in the tumultuous year that was 2020, we saw enormous strides being made to better protect animals, including several jurisdictions completely overhauling their animal cruelty laws.”
What Animal Rights Needs to Learn From the Black Panthers
Four important lessons animal advocates can learn from radical organization the Black Panthers.
“Me Siento Muy Orgullosa Del Movimiento en México” / “I Am Very Proud of the Movement in Mexico”
In an interview with Dulce Ramirez, we discuss her path from rescuing one kitten to Executive Director of a major organization and the state of the animal protection movement in Mexico.
Breeding and Trading Endangered Wild Animals Is Not Conservation
A new study demonstrates that legalized trade and commercial breeding of wild animals stimulates demand, encourages poachers and smugglers and ultimately pushes species towards extinction in the wild.
“The Scale and Power of the Trophy Hunting Industry Is Astonishing”: An Interview With Eduardo Gonçalves
“Nobody has shone the spotlight on the industry, its power or the slaughter that it is responsible for before. This is what I am seeking to do.”
House Renews Effort to Protect Children and Animals from Abuse
This legislation would require that data collected by the federal government from state child protection agencies include information about animal abuse as a risk factor for child abuse.
Why Animal Rights Needs to Read and Write Fiction
Both fiction and animal liberation rely upon our capacities to imagine and speculate something that is not (yet) here, not already existing. We are asking the question: “What does the world we want to live in actually look like?”
US Fish and Wildlife Service Weakens Migratory Bird Protections
The new regulation is primarily designed to benefit the oil and gas industry and electric utilities by shielding companies from liability for the millions of birds their operations kill each year.