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Putting a Stop to Human Attacks on Sharks
Sharks are exploited in extraordinary numbers, with people killing perhaps 100 million of them each year for shark products. Photo by iStockphotoThis has been Shark Week on the Discovery channel. But...
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Caring for the Least Among Us in Puerto Rico
HSUS Staffer Tara Loller and Dr. Osmar Rivera, president of the Puerto Rican Veterinary Association, rescuing Demi and Delores in Playa Los Machos in Ceiba. Photo by Ricardo Arduengo/AP Images for The...
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Toxic Substances, Nontoxic Policy
Stock image of mouse Each year, tens of thousands of animals are killed to test industrial chemicals, including ingredients found in common household products in our homes. These animals suffer...
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Wildlife Trafficking Eats Up Species Great and Small
A pangolin in the wild in Zimbabwe. Tikki Hywood TrustWhat is the most abused wildlife species many people have never heard of? It may be an obscure species known as the pangolin – the only mammals...
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Key U.S. Senate Committee Passes Series of Key Provisions for Horses, Orcas,...
Horses sold for slaughter for human consumption suffer during the long journeys, and many die or sustain injuries. Kathy Milani/HSUSWe had a powerful showing today in the U.S. Senate Appropriations...
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Our Dizzying Array of Animal Care Programs
One of the nearly 200 animals rescued in North Carolina earlier this week by Chatham County Animal Services together with The Humane Society of the United States, RedRover, Horse Helpers of the High...
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Putting a Stop to Doping Horses and Fixing Races
The horse-racing industry is plagued with dozens of poorly run and regulated tracks having fatality rates as much as three times the national average. Some trainers and owners are allowing unfit,...
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New York Blood Center Just the Latest Threat to Chimps
(From left) Joyce Friedman, New York City coordinator for The HSUS, Amanda Ketterer, a youth representative of Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots program, Kathleen Conlee, HSUS vice president of Animal...
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Time for Federal Anti-Cruelty Statute
For years, The HSUS has worked with lawmakers to strengthen the legal framework against malicious cruelty, including making it a crime to sell videos depicting animal crushing. Photo by...
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Korea Dog Meat Trade Survivors Settle Down in Forever Homes
Snowball, one of 23 dogs rescued from a Korean dog meat farm in January, is among the three dogs featured in our new video. Photo by Kathy MilaniIn January, I shared the story of 23 dogs who managed to...
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Breaking News: Obama Announces Landmark Commercial Trade Ban on Ivory
It is estimated that one elephant is killed in Africa every 15 minutes. At that rate, this iconic species may go extinct in little more than a few decades. Photo by AlamyWith Kenya’s President Uhuru...
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MARC’ed Progress
Scientists at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center left lambs to starve, freeze, or, get battered to death by hail, all in a misguided attempt to produce “easy care” sheep. Photo by iStockphotoIn...
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Breaking News: Nepalese Organizers Announce an End to the World’s Bloodiest...
Our HSI team traveled to Nepal to witness the bloody spectacle in Gadhimai last year, where animals, including buffaloes, goats, sheep, pigs, and chickens, were hacked to death, often with machetes....
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Breaking News: Cheesecake Factory Makes Major Announcement on Gestation...
The Cheesecake Factory will eliminate pork from operations that use gestation crates by 2020, two years ahead of its earlier announced timeframe, Photo by iStockphotoThe Cheesecake Factory—a restaurant...
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American Public Roars After It Gets a Glimpse of International Trophy Hunting...
Cecil the lion, pictured above, was widely photographed and somewhat habituated to a non-threatening human presence in Hwange National Park. Photo by Brent StapelkampCecil the lion is dead because...
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Time to Shut Down Trophy Imports of All Lions to the United States
On Monday, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, D-N.J. will introduce a bill to ban all imports of trophies and parts from African lions and other at-risk species into the United States. The bill is called...
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Time for Major Airlines to Stop Shipping Africa Big Five Trophies
Cecil the lion, pictured above, was widely photographed and somewhat habituated to a non-threatening human presence in Hwange National Park. Photo by Brent StapelkampBreaking News: Today, both Delta...
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Compass Sets Coordinates to Achieve 5 Freedoms
Photo by iStockphotoThe latest thunderbolt on the farm animal protection front comes from Compass Group, the world’s largest food service company. Compass Group USA is embracing the Five Freedoms for...
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Progress on Ag-Gag and Puppy Mill Fronts
Photo by Kathy Milani/The HSUSWith public opinion continuing to turn sharply against the safari hunting escapades of American trophy hunters and a cascade of major airlines announcing they won’t...
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We Are All Cecil
Two bobcats at one of our affiliated animal care centers, the Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in Ramona, California. Yesterday’s action by the California Fish and Game Commission to ban trapping of...
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