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Burros

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

Fish

Fish are aquatic animals who live in diverse habitats.

Turtles

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

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.

horses at Duchess Sanctuary saved from equine cruelty

Protecting Marine Wildlife

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

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.

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...

A frog jumps to safety out of a pool using a ramp to rejoin the other frogs on the safety of the grass

Don’t fence them in

It seemed like a good idea at the time: Buy a house with a two-acre property, let our energetic herding dog have the run of the place and spend blissful summer days digging side by side in the dirt with her. And it was blissful, watching Mattie carve out her napping spots behind the ferns and tall...

Duchess Sanctuary

Giraffes one step closer to US endangered species protections

WASHINGTON—In response to a lawsuit by conservation and animal protection groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed today to a deadline of November 2024 for deciding if giraffes warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. The Center for Biological Diversity, Humane Society...

Photo illustration of a dim light bulb with illustrated butterflies

Going to the dark side

On summer evenings, my husband and I head to the darkest spot of our property to look for the light—in the form of fireflies rising from meadow grasses and twinkling their way into the trees. As the tulip poplars behind this spectacular display settle in for slumber, white yucca flowers open their...

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...

Illustration of a dog and cat looking out a window at backyard wildlife.

It's their world, too

Somewhere toward the end of the last ice age, we formed an alliance with wolves: Maybe the ancestors of dogs got food scraps while our own ancestors gained protection from predators and other humans. These social species eventually collaborated on a vast scale, possibly even hunting woolly mammoths...

Captured in a rare photo, an alligator snapping turtle nicknamed “the kraken” surfaces in a sanctuary pond.

Meet the unofficial residents of Black Beauty Ranch

Black Beauty Ranch’s most famous unofficial resident lurks out of sight in the mud at the bottom of a horse pasture pond. He weighs perhaps 150 pounds, with a spiked shell like a plated dinosaur’s and a massive jaw. To catch food, he lies in wait, opening his mouth wide to reveal a worm-like...

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