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Thousands of wild animals — including mice, owls, hawks, owls, sea gulls, fish and marine mammals — will die slow, painful deaths if the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service…

The Big Cat Public Safety Act would eliminate private possession of big cats and ban the public from interacting with cubs. Urge the senate to protect big cats!

In Defense of Animals and Chicago Alliance for Animals hosted two demonstrations to call for the release of Spur the African Sulcata tortoise from The Animal Store…

Learn how you can help animals of all kinds stay cool in the heat by creating access to water, shade, and even food sources. Extreme heat can cause distress in both…

In Defense of Animals and Chicago Alliance for Animals held a day of action as pressure mounts on Cook County officials to release Rocky the suffering coyote from…

California is just one step away from banning one of the most destructive insecticides! Urge Governor Newsom to pass this crucial bill today!

Urge the authorities to keep and enforce the ban on bear baiting under all circumstances!

Contact your U.S. representative and urge their support of HR 7398 to end barbaric wildlife killing contests nationwide.

Demand justice for the endangered black bear who was tortured to death in Mexico!

In Defense of Animals urges Wildlife Services to cancel plans to kill 26 species of birds in Louisiana and instead adopt nonlethal bird coexistence strategies.

Join IDA and Chicago Alliance for Animals activists to stand up against animal cruelty and advocate for the release of Rocky the coyote and Spur the tortoise to…

We are calling on Cook County to release Rocky the coyote from his cage at the River Trail Nature Center to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado.

Urge Congresswoman Jackie Speier and your legislators to influence the Council of Foster City and pardon 100 geese and goslings for pooping in public.

A pristine Utah national park wilderness area is in danger from polluting oil trains. Stop the Uinta Basin Railway to save habitat for wild animals and to halt the…

The Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) should phase out all giraffe exhibits in all AZA zoos. Giraffes are uniquely unsuited to captivity.

Celebrity and animal rights advocate Ricky Gervais has joined activists in calling on Cook County officials to release Rocky, a coyote who is confined in a cage…

Celebrity and animal rights advocate Ricky Gervais has joined In Defense of Animals in calling on Cook County officials to release Rocky, a coyote who is confined…

Permanently ban all oil and gas drilling on the pristine wild Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ANWR.

A county in South Carolina is encouraging citizens to callously gun down and dismember beavers. Demand Horry County cancel the gruesome program today!

Join us on July 31 at Lake Balboa Park to gather ghost fishing gear and protect fish and water birds from injury and death.

Despite the efforts of captive breeding programs, a small group of humans within the animals’ recovery area are to blame for pushing the animals to extinction.

America’s iconic bison may soon be protected for the first time under the Endangered Species Act, saving them from being hunted, trapped and killed!

Every year, wildlife services kill 10,000 ravens for the crime of wanting to survive in remote areas where humans are increasingly taking over. This senseless killing…

Exciting news for Canada. The Jane Goodall Act has been reintroduced in the Canadian Senate with new protections for more captive wildlife.