The unnecessary removal of wild horses has reached an alarming rate under the current administration. Thousands of horses have been and continue to be removed from their native range, and placed in short- and long-term holding facilities in the Midwest.
Date created: November 8, 2010
Last updated: April 24, 2024
This is part two of a two-part series.
Date created: January 3, 2022
Last updated: April 17, 2024
I don’t know what shocked me more when I was offered the chance to become a kangaroo advocate in Europe. Was it that I, a native of the Netherlands, had never heard of the kangaroo industry despite considering myself to be relatively aware of animal welfare issues, or that almost none of the corporate leaders, politicians, or friends I reached out to in Europe were aware of it, either? This was alarming, considering that the commercial killing of kangaroos is the world’s largest slaughter of land-based wildlife, with Europe being the main importer of kangaroo products, responsible for 65 percent of the trade. Fortunately, awareness is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere—the global campaign to save kangaroos is building and looking increasingly (I apologize) “hopful.”
Date created: April 8, 2024
Last updated: April 22, 2024
As the 60th meeting of the International Whaling Commission continues its deliberations, the Bush administration is undermining decades of whale conservation progress as it seeks to cut a deal with whaling nations that could lead to the official resumption of commercial whaling.
Date created: January 23, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
The Bush Administration today hit a new low by supporting a proposal in favor of killing humpback whales, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) reports. By giving its support, the United States broke ranks with the conservation-minded member nations of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) who voted against the proposal.
Date created: January 23, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
The illicit bushmeat trade—the sale of wild animal meat—continues to thrive and even escalate despite efforts by scientists, conservationists and health officials to stem
the tide.
Date created: February 25, 2010
Last updated: January 9, 2020
The 2018 Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW) was recently released, revealing measured improvements to corporate commitments on animal welfare.
Date created: July 1, 2019
Last updated: July 1, 2019
Elephants in West Africa continue to struggle for survival during the worst drought in 26 years, reports African elephant conservation group Save the Elephants.
Date created: August 11, 2009
Last updated: January 16, 2020
Around the globe each year, more than 650,000 marine mammals are killed or seriously injured as bycatch—entangled or hooked in fishing gear meant for other species.
Date created: April 8, 2024
Last updated: April 22, 2024
A 2010 survey funded by the beef industry found that 64 percent of American consumers are familiar with the term "factory farming."
Date created: November 8, 2010
Last updated: April 24, 2024
When California voters passed Proposition 2 two years ago, they thought they were banning the confinement of egg-laying hens in tiny "battery cages."
Date created: February 7, 2011
Last updated: January 10, 2020
In my laboratory, two macaque monkeys are housed together in an indoor cage measuring 2 m wide by 2.6 m high x 2 m deep. A movable partition down the center of the cage makes it possible to separate the monkeys when experimentation requires it. They are separated for feeding and when one of the monkeys is to be transferred to a training room elsewhere in the building.
Date created: May 11, 2016
Last updated: November 11, 2020
Eight single-caged adult rhesus macaques were given the choice of freely collecting their standard food ration, i.e. 33 biscuits, from an ordinary food box or working for its retrieval from a custom- made food puzzle. During a one-hour observation session following the simultaneous distribution of biscuits in both feeders, individuals spent on average a total of 32 sec retrieving 29.0 biscuits from the food box, and 673 sec retrieving 11.3 biscuits from the food puzzle. It was inferred that the animals voluntarily worked for ordinary food, with the expression of foraging activities serving as its own reward.
Date created: May 24, 2016
Last updated: June 5, 2020
Unlike in the wild, primates in captivity are usually deprived of opportunities to forage because food is made readily available, requiring little effort for its procurement. Being forced to live permanently in an understimulating environment impairs the behavioral health of primates, thereby jeopardizing the validity of scientific research data collected on them.
Date created: May 4, 2016
Last updated: September 16, 2020
This November, California citizens may have the chance to vote for farm animal welfare.
Date created: March 23, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024
The City of Calabasas, in the Santa Monica Mountains northwest of Los Angeles, has decided it will no longer use city funds to finance the killing of coyotes.
Date created: February 23, 2012
Last updated: January 15, 2020
Date created: December 17, 2020
Last updated: December 17, 2020
Shelter animals in California just got a huge helping hand from lawmakers in Sacramento. The Golden State has become the first in the nation to ban the sale of commercially bred pets in pet stores.
Date created: January 4, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024
On October 8, the California Coastal Commission voted to allow SeaWorld San Diego to build its $100 million expansion of Shamu Stadium, a project known as Blue World, but only under the following conditions: the orca breeding program must end; consistent with federal law, no whales can be transferred into or out of the park; and the number of whales held in the new complex must be capped at 15.
Date created: December 30, 2015
Last updated: January 9, 2020
In response to legal pressure from AWI and its allies, Mendocino County, California, officials have agreed to suspend the planned renewal of the county’s contract with the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program, pending an environmental review that will include consideration of nonlethal predator control methods.
Date created: May 29, 2015
Last updated: January 9, 2020
After an undercover investigation in 2008 showed heinous acts of animal cruelty toward nonambulatory or “downed” animals at the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co., California strengthened an existing law governing the treatment of downed animals.
Date created: December 10, 2014
Last updated: April 17, 2024
A US District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Missouri’s Attorney General Chris Koster and joined by attorneys general from five other states that challenged a California law addressing the housing of egg-laying hens.
Date created: December 10, 2014
Last updated: April 24, 2024
Date created: January 3, 2022
Last updated: January 3, 2022
California moved one step closer to deciding whether to protect the gray wolf under the California Endangered Species Act, by accepting a petition that had been filed earlier this year. At its October 3rd public meeting, the California Fish & Game Commission (Commission) voted unanimously to accept a petition that had been filed to list the wolf, thus giving the gray wolf immediate status as a "candidate" for listing, and providing the species full state protections until a final decision is made.
Date created: October 5, 2012
Last updated: February 2, 2022
In a unanimous opinion, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision striking down California’s ban on foie gras.
Date created: January 4, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024
