Green Is the New Red Redux
In May 2004, a New Jersey grand jury indicted seven members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) USA on charges of conspiracy to commit "animal-enterprise terrorism" under the federal Animal...
View ArticleThe History of Greyhound Racing in the United States
by Christine A. Dorchak, Esq., President, GREY2K USA Worldwide — Our sincere thanks to Christine Dorchak and greyhound advocacy organization GREY2K USA Worldwide for this comprehensive history of dog...
View ArticleFDA Unjust to Just Mayo
The FDA is unfairly punishing the makers of an environmentally-friendly, humane product that does not contain eggs.
View ArticleAnimal Factory Farms: An Environmental Catastrophe
by Ken Swensen There is one aspect of meat production that we all should be able to agree upon, whether omnivore or vegan, animal advocate or environmentalist: the animal factory farming system is an...
View ArticleALDF: Let Harvard Climate Change Lawsuit Proceed
Today, the Animal Legal Defense Fund submitted a friend of the court brief on behalf of highly enterprising Harvard students, including several at Harvard Law School, in their bid to compel the...
View ArticleFeral Cats for Hire: Cats at Work Works
Roewade said, “I placed the colony at Empirical because the owner was very interested in the program for humane and practical reasons: the pest control service wasn’t working, and their grain supplies...
View ArticleHunting the Whales
by Brian Duignan — Earlier this month, the Japanese government declared itself an international outlaw. In May, the scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), endorsing the...
View ArticlePlundering Eden: Wildlife Trafficking in Latin America
by Johnna Flahive Touring through Latin America, travelers may stumble upon a particularly macabre sight of a severed foot of an Andean bear hanging in a curio shop or dried skins of young crocodiles...
View ArticleCreating Corridors: The Buzz about the Bee Highway
Since 2010, a third of all bee colonies in the United States have perished. In Europe, 30 percent of bees are currently threatened. A few of the food crops we could lose if we lose bees include:...
View ArticleOne of the World’s Cruelest Tourist Attractions
The Cayman Turtle Farm is the last sea turtle farm on earth that breeds sea turtles for human consumption. But there is no humane way to farm sea turtles.
View ArticleThe Trans-Pacific Trade Pact and Its Impact on Animals
More Factory Farms and Less Wildlife by Ken Swensen The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a proposed agreement between 12 countries that border the Pacific Ocean, including the developed nations of...
View ArticleSnowed In: How Six Species Brave the Winter
Tweet by Divya Rao — Our thanks to the organization Earthjustice (“Because the Earth Needs a Good Lawyer”) for permission to republish this post, which was first published on December 29, 2015, on the...
View ArticleCompassion for Pigs: Salvation for Humans
Tweet by Ken Swensen This past Christmas Eve, we joined some of our family in New York City for an early dinner. Afterward, on our way to a local bakery, we happened upon a beautifully dressed group of...
View ArticleThe California Condor
By 2013 the number of condors in the wild had grown to more than 200---and another 200 animals were living in zoos---and the maintenance and reintroduction program continued to be heralded as a...
View ArticleThe Hidden Treasures of Conservation
Tweet by John P. Rafferty As of January 1, 2016, there were an estimated 7.4 billion living human beings on the planet, each one in need of provisioning with food, water, energy, and other resources....
View ArticleAction Alert from the National Anti-Vivisection Society
Tweet — Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail Legislative Alert, which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a national,...
View ArticleTheir Fate Is In Your Hands
Tweet Voiceless Is Calling for an End to the Legalised Cruelty of the Commercial Kangaroo Trade by Emmanuel Giuffre, legal counsel of Voiceless, the animal protection institute — Our thanks to Animal...
View ArticleManaging Endangered Species
Tweet –by John P. Rafferty –Our thanks to the editors of the Britannica Book of the Year (BBOY) and John Rafferty for permission to republish this special report on the conservation of endangered...
View ArticlePublic Lands Ranching: The Scourge of Wildlife
Tweet by Dr. Mike Hudak –This article, originally published on our blog in 2009, has been updated by the author. Ranching, environmentally destructive wherever it occurs, is an ongoing tragedy being...
View ArticleNeuter the Puppy Mills
ALDF's legal experts are working every day to ensure that our nations animal protection laws are enforced and when they're not, we take action. The passing of pet-store dog-and-cat sales bans in more...
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