A SeaWorld Orlando trainer was injured while handling an orca in the park’s medical pool in September 2024. The injury (rumored to be a broken arm, but never confirmed by media) was serious enough to ...

The Trump Administration weakened the Endangered Species Act (ESA) with a final rulemaking that could open the door to ...

The animals were kept on a former dairy farm in Gainesville, Virginia, where there was no heat, windows were broken, water pipes had frozen up, and dead dogs remained among the live ones. Some of the ...

Fish farming involves the rapidly expanding global practice of raising aquatic species to meet growing food demand. The majority of these have no protection under national animal welfare laws, and ...

In Elephants on the Edge, G.A. Bradshaw exposes how—through mass slaughter, poaching and capture—we have ravaged elephant populations, while drawing comparisons between the ways people and elephants ...

The Bureau of Land Management is tasked with managing the vast majority of our nation’s federally protected wild horses and burros. For decades, the agency has used a brutal method to limit the number ...

Washington, DC—By a vote of 34–30, the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed its five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill, which includes a bipartisan amendment led ...

Washington, DC—Yesterday, the US Senate released a discussion draft of its version of the Farm Bill. In a victory for farmed animal welfare and consumers’ and states’ rights, the Senate text does not ...

New York, NY—Conservation groups sued the National Marine Fisheries Service and US government officials today to stop seafood imports into the United States from 44 foreign fisheries in eight ...

Donkeys are valued and trusted companions around the world, yet these animals are being slaughtered in huge numbers to produce ejiao (pronounced “eh-gee-yow”)—gelatin made from boiling donkey hides.

In a shameful response to a growing number of state laws requiring improved housing conditions for farmed animals, two bills have been introduced in Congress: the Food Security and Farm Protection Act ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) today expressed deep concern following the publication of a Federal Register notice indicating that the Trump administration is considering weakening ...