Petitions

Besides being affected in their numbers due to extinction of forest areas and the illegal fishing of the species, Brazilian authorities simply do not ssem to care. Ignorance made it a belief that they have “magical powers,” and that eating their flesh leads to an increased sexual performance. This is one of the main reasons for their decreasing numbers in Amazon. They are hunted and killed to… Read More

It’s an unnecessary procedure done to young puppies to ensure the dog has a particular “look”. It would be the equivalent to giving a preschooler a nose job or breast implants. It is harmful, painful and not needed. Breeders in the UK have stopped doing this procedure ages ago. Vets refuse to do the surgery unless there is a healt… Read More

Ag-Gag laws are being passed around the nation, criminalizing undercover investigation of how food is produced and the cruelties animals face at the hands of factory farms. Ensuring consumers have access to these investigations, and allowing organizations to conduct undercover investigations, is absolutely essential to ensure the well-being of animals as well as the safety of food to consumers. Read More

After the rush of horse meat-mislabeling scandals in the EU, many people believed the back-door horse meat processing industry had suffered a mortal blow. But Romanians are still producing over 14,000 tons of horse meat annually for export to the European Union and… Read More

Kaziranga National Park turned into an arena for bloodshed recently when a gang of armed poachers fought off park rangers for several hours in India to kill an endangered rhinoceros. This was the thirteenth atrocity of its kind in two months, the result of a recent surge of poaching in t… Read More

Farm animals can feel just as much pain and fear as any other mammal — sometimes even more so. Unfortunately, due to the nature of current industrial farming, many cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, and other animals often undergo extreme suffering, stress, and overcrowding before being sent to t… Read More

Qatar Animal Welfare Society (Q.A.W.S.) has originated from a need to give shelter to abandoned cats & dogs in the State of Qatar. Now it is going to have to close its doors on all the stray animals in Qatar due to the inability to find a new hom… Read More

China is allowing the use of the bones of captive-bred tigers to be used as a tonic wine, even though the practice has been illegal sinc… Read More

Forcing dogs to undergo plastic surgery is not only cruel and dangerous, but dishonest, as studs will not pass on the looks acquired through cosmetic… Read More