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We have two golden opportunities to break the strangle-hold of multi-million dollar programs that encourage people to eat animals and animal products

We're offering two events to provide the preventative medicine we need to continue helping animals – both will involve utilizing an activist network for support…

Just when you thought the dolphin slaughters in Taiji, Japan couldn’t get any worse – they just did.

Generic ads like “Got Milk?” or “Beef, It’s What’s for Dinner” are the result of checkoff programs.

Psychotherapist and author April Lang helps us examine our relationships in our upcoming webinar, “Expectations and Assumptions: Powerful, Primal, and Potentially…

Join our new Animal Activist Support Circle with psychotherapist and author April Lang each Monday in the month of June, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PT (2:00 p.m.…

IDA supporter and elephant lover, Kiersten Cluster, currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Darryl, and their two rescue dogs, Fiona and Marty.

Hilton Grand Vacations Club in Hawaii has a despicable plan up its sleeve. Community cats who have lived there for years and their kittens are being starved and…

Help save Animal Rescue Team, a wildlife rehabilitation center located in California's Santa Ynez Valley, and defend animal activist Julia Di Sieno from the Santa…

After decades of effort by whale and dolphin advocates like you, Vancouver Parks Board commissioners voted six to one on May 15 to end performances and imports of…

A team of vegan students and influential speakers won the resolution vote on a pilot program that will test out vegan meal options in a handful of Los Angeles schools…

We are very close to a major breakthrough at one of South Korea's most infamous dog meat markets.

It was the first time she had witnessed a dog meat market in person and it was Busan Gupo, no less - one of the worst in South Korea!

Urgent Action Required! Bill LD396 is currently under active consideration in the Maine legislature right now, and if it is passed, elephants will be prohibited…

MEDIA RELEASE: A suspected dog poisoner has been captured just four days after a $1,000 reward was offered by In Defense of Animals

Gulfport, Mississippi is about to make another huge mistake for the state with its plans to imprison dolphins in a new aquarium - don't let it happen!

These moms and their baby calves– the forgotten "waste products" of the dairy industry – deserve better...

Seven-year-old Akim was rescued and brought to In Defense of Animals - Africa’s Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue last December after enduring years in a tiny cage measuring…

Now that he is the president of the people, will he be a president for the animals? Many animal activists believe so and have put their faith in him.

Kelsey Swindle was traveling down a gravel road in the middle of nowhere when she spotted a mother dog tied to a utility pole with her three young pups. Hope Animal…

Celebrate activist successes, like Anita Krajnc's recent court victory, with us on our activist support group on Thursday, May 25, from 5-6pm PT.

Important update - on May 15, the Vancouver Parks Board voted to ban cetacean captivity! Thank you for all your calls and emails to the Board supporting cetacean…

MEDIA RELEASE: After decades of effort, Vancouver Parks Board commissioners last night voted six to one to end performances and imports of beluga whales and dolphins…

We sent out an alert recently urging our supporters to contact the Chinese Ambassador to take action against the Yulin Dog Meat Festival and to pass animal welfare…