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Bobcats

Named for their stubby tails, bobcats are so elusive that you’d be lucky to catch a glimpse of one in your lifetime.

Chimpanzees

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

Mink

Mink are semi-aquatic mammals similar in appearance to weasels and ferrets.

Sharks

Sleek, powerful and endlessly fascinating, sharks have roamed the oceans for millions of years.

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.

Going Fur-Free

Because animals need their fur coats more than we do.

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.

Promoting Smarter Wildlife Management

To encourage peaceful coexistence with wild animals.

wild humpback whales in marine life habitat

Protecting Marine Wildlife

To make the ocean safer for those who call it home.

Taking Suffering Out of Science

To reduce⁠—and eventually end⁠—harmful animal experiments.

The mountain lion known as P-47 survived fires, freeways and hostile ranchers. But in March, the 3-year-old big cat—tracked by California biologists since his kitten days—succumbed to a hidden hazard: an insidious form of food poisoning. Six anticoagulant compounds—chemicals used to kill rodents...

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...

Black Beauty Ranch

BREAKING: Max Mara urged to drop cruel fur in largest global anti-fur campaign ahead of Fashion Weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris

LONDON―Ahead of Fashion Weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris, the largest ever global anti-fur consumer campaign has been launched to urge fashion house Max Mara to go fur-free. The campaign is headed by animal charities Humane Society International, the Humane Society of the United States and...

California’s statewide ban on animal fur products officially takes effect

SACRAMENTO, California —On January 1, California’s ban on the sale and manufacturing of new animal fur products takes effect across the state. Assembly Bill 44, which passed in 2019, makes California the first state in the country to take this monumental step to end the fur trade within its borders...

Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade

WASHINGTON— In a long-awaited victory for sharks across the globe, the Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act passed the U.S. Senate Thursday night by a vote of 83-11 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 7776). This critical measure prohibits the commercial trade of shark fins and...

Photo collage of different fur alternatives

Cutting cruelty out of fashion

In 1988, after a decade that saw record sales of animal fur, a representative from the Humane Society of the United States met in Europe with other advocates to plan an end to an industry built on cruelty. Only a year before, the first ladies of the U.S. and what was then the USSR had famously...

Dillard’s targeted for being last major US department store to still sell animal fur

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas—Today, four leading animal protection organizations—the Humane Society of the United States, Born Free USA, FOUR PAWS USA and Last Chance for Animals—launched a national campaign urging Dillard’s, the last major U.S. department store still selling animal fur, to adopt a fur...

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