Tania is a female elephant suffering a life of solitary confinement at the Targu-Mures Zoo in Romania. Please write to the European Commission and the EAZA.

While the Oregon Zoo has purchased the legal rights to Lily and Tusko, In Defense of Animals remains skeptical about the elephants’ future.

In Defense of Animals hopes that President Obama’s nomination of Sally Jewell as the next Interior Secretary is a move in the right direction for America’s wild horses and burros.

The fire department in Holley, New York is sponsoring the seventh annual “Squirrel Slam”…

In Defense of Animals (IDA), an international animal protection organization with over 100,000 supporters including 4,000 in Colorado…

In California, hounds are used for hunting black bears and bobcats. This inhumane practice is called “hounding” and uses packs of radio-collared dogs to chase down frightened bears and bobcats, sometimes for many miles, until the animal nears exhaustion and is forced up a tree. When the dogs stop running, the trophy hunter knows that [...]

On January 12, 2012 it was reported that three teenagers in Boulder County, Colorado sadistically herded four geese into the street so they could deliberately run over them with their SUV. Three of the geese died at the scene, with the fourth succumbing to death a few days later at Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Victor [...]

We can now report that Dumbo has been moved to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado; she is finally out of the hands of her circus “owners’” – the notorious Frisco family.

This has been an exciting week for elephants, including some momentous changes for elephants in zoos: IDA has long been fighting to stop archaic, circus-style training in zoos that is inhumane for elephants and lethal for keepers. So we are applauding an important policy change by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) that would [...]

On July 15, 2011, members of Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants and Sound Animal Rights Alliance took their campaigns to the skies. We hired an airplane to tow the message: “ZOO ELEPHANTS SUFFER” over the Woodland Park Zoo during their largest gala fundraiser of the year. As the plane flew overhead for about an [...]