FREE SPEECH FOR FREEDOM: U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Ag-Gag law, allows undercover investigations of factory farms
ALDF: In a major victory for animals, workers, and transparency in the animal agriculture industry, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a…
STUDY: Effective advocacy for animals through protest
JAMES OZDEN & SAM GLOVER: Many animal advocacy groups use protest as a way of gaining media coverage and drawing attention to the plight of…
INVESTIGATION: Footage reveals industry-funded research of cruel methods used to suffocate millions of farmed animals
ANIMAL OUTLOOK: Recently obtained public records — including research protocols, photographs and approximately 10 hours of video footage — from…
‘She Doesn’t Know How to Turn Left’: A blind beagle’s rescue reveals the dark secrets of the biomedical industry
WAYNE HSIUNG: Beagles, as a rule, are gentle creatures. But this gentleness has surprising power. I saw this firsthand when growing up... On so many…
Cooperation in Animals: From ants to rats to clusterflocks
MARC BEKOFF: Ashley Ward is the author of a new book called “The Social Lives of Animals.” The book aims to communicate Ward’s enthusiasm for the…
LIVES ‘UP IN SMOKE’: New report exposes cruel cannabis and ‘vape’ animal experiments in violation of law
GABE KAMINSKY: Federal grant recipients broke the law while spending an estimated $246 million in taxpayer dollars for cannabis and e-cigarette…
‘OUTCASTS’: Tortured chimpanzees dumped on uninhabited island after years of experiments now begging for food to survive
ELMIRA TANATAROVA: A group of 65 chimps - the remnants of 400 ex-test 'subjects' of a US-funded research projects who survived decades of invasive…
‘LIARS DOMINATE’: Faux wildlife photography
TED WILLIAMS: In most forms of journalism, lies are frowned upon. Not so with wildlife photojournalism. Liars dominate. This galls me because I work…
FAMILIAR FEELINGS: How do we know what emotions animals feel?
ALLA KATSNELSON: Scientists studying animal behavior and animal welfare are making important strides in understanding how the creatures we share our…
DEADLY ‘DISPOSAL’: To curb smuggling, Norway and many other countries have been killing confiscated wildlife
JONATHAN MOENS: In 2010, Bjørn Åvik was driving from Sweden into Norway, carrying alcohol, tobacco, and four African gray parrots — intelligent,…