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Burros

Wild burros are small but hardy equines capable of surviving in challenging environments.

Chimpanzees

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

Kangaroos

They look like a deer crossed with a giant jack rabbit; with long, muscular tails and belly pouches, kangaroos are the world’s largest marsupial.

Sharks

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

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.

horses at Duchess Sanctuary saved from equine cruelty

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.

A family of kangaroos named Ross, Rachel, Joey and Chandler and other animals rescued from a roadside zoo are living the good life at a Texas sanctuary

Murchison, TEXAS—A group of exotic wild animals who spent their lives at a deplorable roadside zoo in Canada are now receiving proper care and living their happily-ever-after at the 1,400-acre Black Beauty Ranch, a sanctuary that is part of the Humane Society of the United States. The animals...

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

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...

Duchess Sanctuary

Exclusive interview with animal activist Dr. Jane Goodall

When a young Jane Goodall entered the forests of Tanzania to study wild chimpanzees, neither she nor those supporting her work imagined the influence she would have. Today, Goodall—Ph.D., DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, and United Nations Messenger of Peace—is recognized not only as a...

Federal judge rules NIH broke the law by denying sanctuary retirement to former research chimps

BALTIMORE, Maryland—On Tuesday, a Maryland federal judge ruled that the National Institutes of Health cannot lawfully refuse to retire federally owned chimpanzees formerly used for research to Chimp Haven, the federal chimpanzee sanctuary. The decision was issued in a lawsuit brought by the Humane...

Rescued chimpanzees at the waters edge eating fresh vegetables

From animal researcher to animal advocate

Following one former lab worker's path to advocacy.

Home at last

Immunocontraception FAQ

For more than half a century, the Humane Society of the United States and the Humane Society Legislative Fund have campaigned for the safety and preservation of wild horses and burros on our western rangelands. There is room for debate on how best to manage wild horses and burros on public lands...

Laps, not labs

Teddy was never meant to have a name. He was born a number, just one of tens of thousands of dogs—mostly beagles like him, chosen for their trusting, docile nature and compact size—bred in the United States for use in experiments each year. Teddy was meant to live and die in a laboratory, without...

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