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Bears

Bears are powerful, majestic animals who face numerous threats.

Chimpanzees

Chimpanzees are wild, complex animals who live in family groups and form lifelong bonds.

Turtles

Turtles have been roaming the Earth for millions of years—but now dozens of these “slow and steady” species are racing toward extinction.

Banning Trophy Hunting

To save wildlife from being killed just for bragging rights.

Battling the Worst Hunting Practices

To stand against the most egregious abuses of wildlife.

Fighting Animal Cruelty and Neglect

To help reduce needless cruelty to animals.

Captive animals such as this tiger locked in cage suffer in zoos and circuses

Helping Captive Wild Animals

To keep wild animals where they belong—in the wild—and out of zoos and circuses.

Chickens in chicken house in San Diego, California

Improving the Lives of Farm Animals

By reducing the suffering of animals raised for meat, eggs and dairy.

Promoting Smarter Wildlife Management

To encourage peaceful coexistence with wild animals.

Broiler chicken welfare on factory farms

Protecting Chickens Killed for Meat

To help suffering birds.

Wild macaque monkey in a tree. Monkeys are often victims of illegal wildlife trade.

Stopping the Wildlife Trade

To keep animals safe in their natural habitat.

Taking Suffering Out of Science

To reduce⁠—and eventually end⁠—harmful animal experiments.

Animal protection groups and veterinarians submitted petition to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to ban wildlife killing contests

Today, veterinarians and 18 organizations, led by the Humane Society of the United States, submitted a petition to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources requesting that the agency initiate rulemaking to prohibit cruel, unnecessary wildlife killing contests in the state. At least 20 killing...

Photo of Minnow the dog laying in the grass.

Before and after photos show the power of animal rescue

Minnow It makes sense that her best friends are turkeys. Minnow spent the first five months of her life on a dog meat farm in South Korea before she was rescued by Humane Society International in 2015 and adopted by Abbie Hubbard, who worked at a Virginia shelter where the rescued dogs were flown...

Bipartisan legislation to prohibit the use of wild animals in traveling exhibits heard by Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development

BOSTON—Today the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development heard testimony on bills prohibiting the use of elephants, big cats, primates, giraffes and bears in traveling exhibits and shows (H.3245 and S.2197/S.2189). This critical, bipartisan legislation serves to...

Black Beauty Ranch

Black Beauty Ranch joins the Trust’s Humane Stewardship Alliance

Black Beauty Ranch—which is the world-renowned sanctuary for rescued animals operated by the Humane Society of the United States—becomes another beacon of light for humane treatment of animals in the growing network of the Trust’s Humane Stewardship Alliance lands. With over 1,400 acres in Murchison...

Breaking: Animal protection groups fight for New Jersey black bears, taking legal action to stop trophy hunt

TRENTON , New Jersey—Today, a coalition of state and national animal protection groups including Animal Protection League of New Jersey, the Humane Society of the United States and Friends of Animals, launched an emergency court challenge to the black bear trophy hunt that is scheduled to begin Dec...

Breaking: New Jersey to trophy hunt black bears

TRENTON, New Jersey ─Today, the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Fish and Game Council reinstated its controversial black bear trophy hunt. The emergency rulemaking that the council used circumvents standard procedures requiring appropriate notice of the action to the public and the...

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