animal rights

Finally, some good news in 2020. And we have Cher to thank for it. Yes, that Cher.

Doctor Dolittle usually conjures up memories of Eddie Murphy being stuck in a bathroom with a bear taking a dump, or…

Heinous and intentional acts of violence against animals are now a federal crime under a new bill that was signed…

A 47-year-old Asian elephant named Happy has lived in isolation at the Bronx Zoo for the past 12 years. A team of…

The five year long struggle to free a pair of captive chimps in the state of New York has finally come to an end.…

POLITICO reports that current and past Humane Society employees accused outspoken animal rights and lab-grown meat…

Reptiles and amphibians are incredible creatures, but should we be keeping them as pets? A debate that’s been…

Yesterday, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a petition on behalf of three elephants being kept at a Connecticut…

Yesterday, a New York state appeals court rejected an appeal filed by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) seeking…

Brian Kateman, like many once-vegetarians, wasn’t perfect. But he wasn’t trying to be. One Thanksgiving during his…

“They used to bark at me when I walked into the courtroom,” lawyer Steven Wise said in the Sundance documentary Unloc…

In what’s becoming a trend, the Trump administration is walking back another one of its controversial actions…

The backlash has been vicious since zookeepers killed a gorilla named Harambe in order to protect a boy who fell…

The U.S. Navy has agreed to set aside vast swaths of ocean territory off the shores of Hawaii and Southern…

Since the 9/11 attacks, researchers in the United States have conducted exceptionally cruel, even superfluous,…

The Jane Goodall Institute, in collaboration with other animal welfare groups, has successfully petitioned the U.S.…

Earlier this month, a change was made to New Zealand’s Animal Welfare Amendment Bill stating that animals — like…

For the first time in U.S. history, a supreme court has granted a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of two lab…

The costumes are coming off, the shackles are being unlocked, and the boxcars are opening. After more than 130…