animals

OHIO - On June 10, 2013, North Ridgeville Humane Officer Barry Accorti shot and killed a litter of kittens in front of a distraught homeowner and her children inside the home. He told the homeowner that "the shelters were full and that these cats would be going to kitty heaven." Accorti then

We need your urgent support to help save the Great Barrier Reef! Please sign and share this petition by June 17 to help send a strong message to the World Heritage Committee. Living off the coast of the Great Barrier Reef, this global treasure has been my home for 37 years. I have seen more

Five years ago an Angel came into my life in the form of a Pit Bull Terrier from the South Central Los Angeles Shelter.  Her ears cut with scissors, battery acid burns all over her back, broken tail, part of her tongue missing, had been bred several times and used as a bait dog but still had a smile

FoodTorture Culture and deliberately making an animal suffer to satisfy the palette of an individual or nation is unacceptable . To put it simply, boiling dogs and cats alive, beating them skinning them alive either in public or in private can not continue  while the world's governments watch and

The shocking murder of Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26-year-old conservationist working to protect leatherback sea turtles on the Caribbean coast, Friday May 31, demands immediate justice. The Costa Rican government must respond with swift action to send a clear message to all sea turtle poachers that

The Mexican gray wolf, a distinct subspecies of the gray wolf, once roamed throughout Mexico and the Southwestern United States. Today the global population of these animals is tiny – roughly 75 individuals in the wild, and another 300 in captivity.Unless the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)

We have a small window of opportunity to protect wolves across the states, but we urgently need your help if we're going to make this happen. Last month, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) announced they were delaying their previously-announced proposal to strip the nation's gray

As you read this, hundreds of animals have their foot, shattered and mangled in a foothold trap, or are slowly choking to death in conibear traps. Thousands of animals are suffering unthinkable pain and anguish, EVERY DAY. They're frightened beyond hope, and in horrible pain. Their savior will show

Foie gras products are derived from force-feeding young ducks with enormous amounts of grain in order to produce abnormally large livers, eight or more times the size of a healthy liver. The cruel and unhealthy force-feeding of birds for foie gras production has been banned in over a dozen

As an animal lover, I've launched this petition to protect these innocent animals.  I'm asking people to join me in challenging the Federal Government's practice of selectively killing these beautiful birds.  As human's, it's our responsibility to protect other species and I started this