Wildlife, Federal Legislation, In the News / Aug 04, 2015
Airlines Take Flight from Trophy Hunting; When Will Congress Get On Board?
The tragic death of Cecil the lion—senselessly shot by an American dentist with a bow and arrow and left to suffer for hours before being shot again—has exposed the pay-to-slay subculture of wealthy people who spend a fortune to kill the grandest, most majestic animals in the world. The public outrage shows no signs of slowing down.
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+ Read MoreEquines, Federal Legislation / Jul 29, 2015
House Veterinarians and Bipartisan Lawmakers Team Up to Make Soring a Thing of the PAST
Good news for horses: a bipartisan group of more than 100 members of Congress, evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, joined together as original cosponsors of the Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act introduced last night in the U.S. House. Led by Reps. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., and Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., who are both veterinarians and co-chairs of the House Veterinary Medicine Caucus, along with the leadership team of Reps.
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+ Read MorePets & Cruelty, Federal Legislation / Jul 28, 2015
Anti-Cruelty Bill Gathers Steam, to Protect Animals and People
It’s well established that malicious animal cruelty indicates a broader social pathology and lack of empathy, and the perpetrators often are indiscriminate in choosing victims – one day it’s a dog or a horse, another day it’s a neighborhood child or just some innocent passerby.
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+ Read MoreWildlife, State Legislation / Jul 24, 2015
How Safe Are You From an Escaped Pet Lion?
If you live in one of five states with no laws preventing the private possession of dangerous wild animals, there’s no telling what kind of safety threats are looming in your own neighborhood. Dozens of Milwaukee residents reported seeing a lion running loose, spurring a media frenzy this week. One blurry image captured on video in a resident’s backyard suggests this could be a young male or adult female African lion.
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+ Read MoreAnimals in Research, Equines, Farm Animals, Pets & Cruelty, Wildlife, Federal Legislation, In the News / Jul 09, 2015
House Action is a Mixed Bag for Animals
Yesterday was a mixed day of results for animals on Capitol Hill, with some setbacks and some progress on a number of different fronts for companion animals, wildlife, and farm animals.
What good news there was came in the Agriculture Appropriations Bill that passed the House Appropriations Committee.
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+ Read MoreWildlife, Federal Legislation / Jun 25, 2015
Congress Needs to Act Both at Home and Abroad to Protect Elephants from Poaching
Today the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed H.R. 2494, the Global Anti-Poaching Act, sponsored by Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., and Ranking Member Eliot Engel, D-N.Y.
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+ Read MoreAnimals in Research, Federal Legislation / Jun 23, 2015
Pretty Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Humane Cosmetics Act Introduced
More than 30 countries—home to 1.7 billion consumers—prohibit the manufacture and sale of animal-tested cosmetics. The United States can help accelerate the pace of reform worldwide and drive the market toward cruelty-free products with new bipartisan legislation introduced today in Congress.
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+ Read MoreWildlife, Federal Legislation / Jun 17, 2015
Who's Afraid of Big, Bad Policy? War on Wolves Wages On
Some anti-wolf politicians in Congress are once again pushing to force the removal of wolves from the Endangered Species Act and to block wildlife biologists, the courts, and so many members of the public from having anything to say about it. It’s the worst kind of back-room deal-making, and we need your help now to stop it.
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+ Read MoreFarm Animals, Pets & Cruelty, Wildlife, Film & Television / Jun 15, 2015
Wildlife Disservices
Longtime wildlife advocate Congressman Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., led a briefing today to expose the annual, irresponsible killing of millions of wild animals on behalf of a few special interests.
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+ Read MoreAnimals in Research, In the News / Jun 09, 2015
Where Science and Compassion Overlap: Making Progress on Animal Research Issues
If you want evidence that animal research in the country has gone off track, you don’t need to look very far.
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+ Read MoreUncategorized / May 13, 2015
Make a PACT to Stop Animal Cruelty
In the mid-1980s, only four states—Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Rhode Island—had felony-level penalties for malicious cruelty to animals. But today, all 50 states have such a policy, and there’s a national consensus that vicious acts of animal abuse and torment should be treated as a serious crime.
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+ Read MoreEquines, Pets & Cruelty, Wildlife, Action Alerts, Federal Legislation, State Legislation / May 07, 2015
Anti-Horse Slaughter Bill Hits the Senate
Many animal protection issues and challenges are not resolved quickly—they involve long-term fights that take years. The slaughter of horses for human consumption is one such example.
We and our allies have been working to block horse slaughter plants from opening in the U.S.; to stop the long-distance transport of these companion animals in cramped cattle trucks, bound for a brutal slaughter in Canada and Mexico; and to close down export markets for horse meat in the E.U.
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