She heard their cries and couldn’t walk away, so she helped save 18 dogs from flood waters
ANDREW CARTER: 'April Casey tried to take a shortcut to somewhere else on Saturday when instead she arrived at a dead end – a flood that blocked her…
Veganism as a Tool for Compassion
ANDREW MILES: 'Some of the greatest thinkers in human history: Pythagoras, Gandhi, Tolstoy, Da Vinci, Einstein, Tesla... suggested at some point in…
US Wildlife Services is Really a Wildlife Killing Machine
GEORGE WUERTHNER: 'Wildlife Services is a secretive taxpayer-supported federal agency whose prime purpose is to kill wildlife. Wildlife Services…
When will all Spanish labs that experiment with animals lift the veil of secrecy?
MANUEL ANSEDE: 'In late 2014, the Biomedical Primate Research Center in the Dutch city of Rijswijk unexpectedly opened its doors to a team of…
University of Missouri System lawsuit over open records will move forward
SABRINI BRONS: 'In May 2016, Animal Rescue, Media & Education, also known as the Beagle Freedom Project, sued the UM System and its records…
Animals Are Smart. Are Humans Holding Them Back?
HUFFPOST: 'Animals are smarter than we think. Sharks like jazz and bees understand the number zero. Some of the most abstract ideas for humans to…
Japan’s bid to end commercial whaling moratorium defeated
STEVE JACOBS: 'The International Whaling Commission has rejected Japan's proposal to end the global moratorium on commercial whaling, which has been…
Clean Meat: A Graphic Primer
FAUNALYTICS: 'Clean meat – also sometimes referred to as cultured meat or in-vitro meat – is real meat made by taking cell samples from animals and…
Not ‘like family’ after all (Part 2): Shelter in hurricane’s path warns it will euthanize animals
REIS THEBAULT: 'For many pets that have been left behind or abandoned after their owners fled this coastal county and surrounding communities, the…
Not ‘like family’ after all (Part 1): Impoverished Venezuelans are abandoning their ‘pets’
RACHELLE KRYGIER: 'If life in Venezuela has become hard for humans, it has become even harder for many 'pets'. With inflation soaring toward 1…