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Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Have Humans Evolved to Harm Animals? An Interview with Dr. Diana Fleischman

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 21:59:41 -0700

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 […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Using Data to End Dog Homelessness: The Global Dog Campaign

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:28:35 -0700

Where dogs roam free, they also suffer—and so do people. Dog homelessness (or overpopulation, depending on how the issue is framed) is a global problem with serious ramifications for both dog welfare and human p […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Exposing Wildlife Crime: An Interview With Karl Ammann

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 22:14:29 -0700

Wildlife crime is a serious and escalating threat to the survival of many species and entire ecosystems. When most of us hear about the scale of the threat poaching and trafficking pose to wild animals, we hope […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, "Me Siento Muy Orgullosa Del Movimiento en México" / "I Am Very Proud of the Movement in Mexico"

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:40:54 -0800

Dulce Ramirez is a leader and pioneer of animal advocacy in Mexico. Under Ramirez’s leadership as Executive Director, the Mexico chapter of Igualdad Animal (Animal Equality) has made big progress for animals and […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, "The Scale and Power of the Trophy Hunting Industry Is Astonishing": An Interview With Eduardo Gonçalves

Sun, 07 Feb 2021 20:52:41 -0800

Trophy hunting is well-known to be a pastime of the wealthy and powerful, but few people realize just how far that influence reaches. In his newest book, Trophy Leaks: Top Hunters and Industry Secrets Revealed, […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, First Marine Wildlife Hospital in the Pacific Northwest Coming Soon

Sat, 30 Jan 2021 22:12:52 -0800

The Pacific Northwest region of the United States is home to a wide range of marine species, including seals, sea lions, otters, sea turtles and porpoises. Unfortunately, these animals are increasingly threatened […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Live Animal Postal Shipping: "Some Are Expected to Die"

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:59:02 -0800

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on mail delays in the United States has brought attention to the serious animal welfare issues inherent in the practice of shipping live animals in the mail. In August, the […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Triumph and Grief: Excerpt from New Elephant Anthology

Fri, 18 Dec 2020 23:16:49 -0800

Both anecdotal and scientific evidence has demonstrated repeatedly that animals from a wide range of species experience many of the same emotions we do. For those of us fighting for animal protection and […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, New Photography Book Shines Light on Hidden Animals in Our Lives

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 20:31:58 -0800

HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene, released this week, is an unflinching book of photography about our conflict with non-human animals around the globe. Through the lenses of forty award-winning […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Massive Rescue Planned to Bring 800 Dogs Stateside From Puerto Rico

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:35:24 -0800

It’s growing increasingly common to see dogs available for adoption in the United States who come from outside the mainland, typically from places with big problems with pet overpopulation. For various reasons, […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Henry Bergh: A Father of the American Animal Welfare Movement

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:29:56 -0800

Any social movement benefits from knowing its history, and the animal welfare movement is no different. How did the modern movement to protect animals from cruelty begin, and who were the early activists who […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Vegan Doesn't Always Mean Cruelty-Free: An Interview With lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:30:20 -0700

Every time we choose plant-based foods over those that contain animal products, we’re reducing the suffering involved in producing our food. That’s a great thing, but many of us stop there and fail to think more […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Coexisting with Cougars: An Interview with Mark Elbroch

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:41:23 -0700

A good deal of fear and apprehension accompanies most reports of cougar sightings in the United States, which are increasingly common as populations continue to rebound from being hunted nearly to extinction. […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Watched to Death: Whale Watching and Washington's Endangered Orcas

Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:58:09 -0700

The Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) are a group of orcas, made up of three pods, who live off the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada. In the Pacific Northwest, they are well known for being […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Decolonizing Veganism: An Interview with Dr. Margaret Robinson

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:41:19 -0700

There is a widely-held perception that veganism and animal rights are only for the white and privileged. This isn’t actually true, either historically or currently, but is instead a consequence of the centering […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: People, Animals, and the Environment in Sustainability Policy

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:47:01 -0700

In July 2020, Animal People attended the annual United Nations High Level Political Forum as a member of the Animal Issues Thematic Cluster. As part of this event, Animal People Executive Director Wolf Gordon Cl […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: Political Action for Animal Welfare in Africa

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:40:04 -0700

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: Accounting for Animals in Disaster Response and Planning

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 23:01:10 -0700

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: Harmful Impacts of Factory Farming

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:02:23 -0700

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: Uplifting Communities While Protecting Wildlife

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:22:23 -0700

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: Wildlife Trade and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 18:06:36 -0700

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: Cultivated Meat: A New Way to Feed the World

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 19:09:58 -0700

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Bringing Cows Into the Academy: An Interview with Kathryn Gillespie

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 20:40:52 -0700

In her book The Cow with Ear Tag #1389, Kathryn Gillespie investigates what the lives of cows raised for dairy production are actually like. She visits farms, slaughterhouses, trade shows and auction yards, […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: Replacing Animal Use in Science and Education

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 17:33:28 -0700

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: Nourishing People and Protecting Nature with Sustainable Food Systems

Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:58:44 -0700

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: Youth Engagement for Animal Welfare in Liberia

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 20:57:59 -0700

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Intersectional Animal Advocacy: An Interview with pattrice jones

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 19:44:45 -0700

pattrice jones is an influential and accomplished activist, writer, and educator who has been involved in activism since the 1970s. She co-founded VINE Sanctuary with her partner and has authored two books (The […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: Protecting the Planet by Combating the Illegal Wildlife Trade

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:35:00 -0700

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Beyond Single-Issue Veganism: Consistent Anti-Oppression

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 18:54:54 -0700

There are changes happening in the veganism and animal liberation movements. Mainstream veganism, which is largely food-focused and apolitical, just isn’t cutting it, and its inattention to other forms of […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: Creating Safe and Healthy Communities Through Dog TNVR

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:39:27 -0700

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, After Animal Farming

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 22:10:59 -0700

It’s a dream scenario for vegans and animal rights activists: livestock farmers give it all up, retire their cows to sanctuary, transition to crop farming, and become advocates for animals and the environment. […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Video: Preventing the Next Pandemic Through Animal Welfare

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:37:19 -0700

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, "I Wish I Could Make All Animal Experimenters Feel What I Felt When I Had My Aha Moment"

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 21:04:55 -0700

When Frances Cheng was working towards her PhD in physiology and biophysics, experimenting on animals was just how things were done. But then she started to question things, and she realized that her animal […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, "Love Is Love and Grief Is Grief": Helping People Cope With Pet Loss

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:19:26 -0700

Many of us know how incredibly difficult it can be when an animal you love dies. The grief over losing an animal companion can be just as painful and incapacitating as that over losing a human loved one, though […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Talking to Children About Factory Farming

Tue, 30 Jun 2020 18:38:28 -0700

It can be difficult to know how to talk to children about issues that are graphic or otherwise age-inappropriate in reality. This can feel especially touchy with issues of animal exploitation and abuse; while […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Is the King of Beasts Headed Towards Extinction?

Wed, 27 May 2020 18:04:39 -0700

Lions are perhaps the most iconic of wild animals. We love them and fear them, and most people have probably never imagined that we might be headed towards a world where they no longer exist in the wild. […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Caregiving is Activism: The Microsanctuary Resource Center

Wed, 20 May 2020 19:59:40 -0700

When we think about the billions of animals exploited by humans, it can be hard to consider the individual. While we fight for legislative protections for animals or encourage others to give up animal products, […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, The New Big 5: Shooting Cameras, Not Guns

Mon, 11 May 2020 17:48:03 -0700

Many people have heard of the big five: lions, leopards, rhinoceros, elephants, and cape buffalo. While the big five may be used today as a checklist for some of the most desirable animals to see or photograph on […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, And Say the Researcher Responded?

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:32:33 -0700

The human side of the zoo’s orangutan exhibit is open-air, meant to feel like you’re out for a walk in the forest and have happened upon five well-fed orangutans lounging behind glass. Manicured plants grow in […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Activists Use Social Distancing to Draw Attention to Animal Confinement

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:39:16 -0700

Many people are struggling with the isolation and confinement required of them to help slow the spread of COVID-19. At times, social distancing can be boring, lonely, depressing, and can make us feel restless and […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, For the Love of Giraffes: An Interview with Dr. Anne Dagg

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:05:26 -0800

In 1956, young Anne Innis Dagg traveled alone to South Africa to study giraffe behavior in the wild. Not only was she embarking on one of the first observational studies of wild animal behavior, she also had to […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, After the Races: An Interview with a Greyhound Rescue Veteran

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 18:34:56 -0800

The greyhound racing industry treat dogs as if they were expendable. Dogs are bred at much higher rates than will be used used for racing, and even those who do race successfully will only be champions for so […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Looking Back on India's Dancing Bears

Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:39:40 -0800

It’s not too often that we have the opportunity to look back on a practice that harmed animals and reflect on how it was successfully brought to an end. The organization International Animal Rescue (IAR) has done […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Bringing Light to the Darkness: Undercover Investigations for Animals

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 16:58:21 -0800

Unfortunately, even when laws and regulations exist to protect animals, that doesn’t mean they’re always enforced. Due to a variety of variables, including the secretive nature of many animal-abusing industries […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Can Listening Save Rainforests?

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:26:30 -0800

Many species of wild animals and entire ecosystems are threatened by the activities of nearby communities, such as poaching, logging, or other destructive practices. Most of the time, when done on an individual […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Bucking Tradition: Award-Winning Anti-Rodeo Short Film Available Online Now

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:54:09 -0800

Bucking Tradition, the short documentary winner of the 2019 International Vegan Film Festival, is available online now. Recently covered in Animal People Forum in an interview with Executive Producer, Eric […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, The Save Movement: Bearing Witness to Animal Suffering

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 18:56:21 -0800

So much human-caused animal suffering goes on every day largely because people turn a blind eye to it. People are encouraged constantly to turn away from a real consideration of animal lives and deaths, either […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Rodeos: Do Some Traditions Deserve To Die?

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:02:46 -0700

Rodeo is a relatively little-discussed animal issue, often largely unknown by those who live outside of the regions where it is most popular. Those who participate in rodeo call it a sport and a valuable […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, The Gentle Barn: Lessons Learned after 20 Years of Sanctuary

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 22:27:10 -0700

Animal sanctuaries perform an important part of the work of protecting and liberating animals. While we push for big, systemic changes that benefit animals, it’s also important not to lose sight of the […]

Dylan Forest wrote a new post, Is Sea Shepherd Its Own Worst Enemy?

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:58:32 -0700

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society may be one of the most well-known animal protection organizations out there, known best for their direct actions, controversial tactics and presence in the media. Perhaps the […]