Access to care for pets
The deep connection between people and pets is universal, but access to animal care resources is not. In truly humane communities, everyone can obtain what they need for the animals in their lives.
Animal cruelty
Our toughest fights work to address the systemic cruelties embedded in factory farming, animal research and other industries that impact millions of animals.
Animal rescue and response
Local emergency response departments, humane societies and animal shelters often don’t have the resources to help animal victims of disasters and large-scale cruelty cases. That’s where we come in.
Dog and cat welfare
Every day around the world, millions of dogs and cats face neglect and cruelty. From rescues to policy reforms, Humane World for Animals works to protect pets and support people in caring for them.
Ending animal fighting
No animal should have to suffer the barbaric practices of dogfighting and cockfighting. Humane World for Animals is working to end this cruelty in all its forms.
Ending animal testing
Animals don’t deserve to be used in experiments. It’s time to prioritize animal-free research methods that will benefit both humans and animals.
Ending the dog and cat meat trade
Across Asia, millions of dogs and cats are kept in terrible conditions and then killed for their meat. We are still fighting to end this brutality in Indonesia, China, Viet Nam and India.
Farmed animal welfare
Industrial farms cause animal suffering on an unimaginable scale. We work to improve animal welfare on farms, reducing extreme confinement, and to promote a more plant-forward global food system.
Helping captive wildlife
Wild animals belong in their natural habitats, not kept in roadside zoos and circuses for our entertainment. With your help, we’re working to end this cruelty.
Protecting equines
Equines are companions and partners, and it's our responsibility to act as their guardians. Unfortunately, cruelty persists. Humane World for Animals tackles the root causes of this cruelty to end it.
Stopping puppy mills
It's time to end the cruel treatment of dogs in mass breeding operations. We're fighting to stop puppy mills on all possible levels.
Wildlife protection
Stand with Humane World for Animals to put an end to the senseless killing and exploitation of wildlife.
What’s happening
Arkaprava Bhar
Help fight the dog and cat meat trade and protect all animals
Jean Chung
Jean Chung
Help animals suffering in the horrific dog and cat meat trades, as well as on fur farms, in laboratories and more
Dog Meat Free Indonesia
Call on Indonesia's leader to end the horrifically cruel and dangerous dog and cat meat trades by passing a presidential regulation
Urge Viet Nam to pass explicit legislation to ban the inherently cruel and dangerous dog and cat meat trades that threaten public health and safety, and tarnish the country's global reputation
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Help fight the dog and cat meat trades and protect all animals.
Dex Kotze
Labour pledged a ban on imports of cruel hunting trophies in its 2024 election manifesto—let's make sure this promise is delivered.
Andy Fisher
We're calling urgently for wildlife laws to be strengthened, to better protect wildlife, and ensure wild animal welfare is at the centre of wildlife legislation.
Ryan B. Stephens
The HSUS
Ending the transport of hunting trophies around the world
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Humane World for Animals launched The Pecking Order, ranking major fast-food companies in Poland and Romania on chicken welfare. The fast-food industry must do better.
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Tell the company to keep its animal welfare promises and stop using cruel cages and crates.
Grace Kahler/The HSUS
A model for helping wild burros, the Platero Project sheds some much-deserved light on the plight of wild burros.
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Wild horse and burro management on federal lands in the U.S.
Christi Gilbreth/Humane World for Animals
By participating in certain activities while traveling, you may be feeding the demand for captive wildlife and wildlife for entertainment.
Because cruelty often happens behind closed doors, our highly trained undercover investigators go undercover to document abusive practices so that they can’t be ignored by the public and lawmakers.
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The implementation of sustainable spay/neuter programs is one of the critical elements in addressing canine and feline populations that have exceeded the capacity of the local community to adequately
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Tens of millions of pets are loved by families experiencing poverty. Stand with us today to increase access to affordable veterinary care, pet food and pet-inclusive housing.