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 swirling…
Yesterday, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a petition on behalf of three elephants being kept at a Connecticut zoo.…
Yesterday, a New York state appeals court rejected an appeal filed by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) seeking legal…
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 Unlockin…
The backlash has been vicious since zookeepers killed a gorilla named Harambe in order to protect a boy who fell into…
The U.S. Navy has agreed to set aside vast swaths of ocean territory off the shores of Hawaii and Southern California…
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 humans…
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 years,…
The human brain is special. Just not that special. To understand animal minds, and our own place in the living world,…
What's the difference between "Cage Free," "Farm Fresh," and "Free Range"?
History was made this past weekend in Buenos Aires when an appeals court ruled that an orangutan held in a zoo is a…
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