A new initiative in Sobral adds plant-based ingredients to more than 2.3 million meals a year SOBRAL, Brazil—An agreement signed by the Municipality of Sobral, in collaboration with Humane Society International and Mercy for Animals’ Alimentação... Global Plant-Based Eating Read More Latest Updates
European citizens demand an end to animal testing BRUSSELS—For the second time in seven years, more than one million people across the European Union have called for an... Europe Animal Testing Read More Latest Updates
Criminal gang arrested in China for luring cats with protected live sparrows to sell for brutal meat trade BEIJING—Members of a criminal gang in the city of Jinan, in east China’s Shandong province, have been arrested by local... Global Animal Cruelty Read More Latest Updates
Food industry convenes to improve farm animal welfare in Viet Nam HO CHI MINH CITY, Viet Nam—Yesterday, Humane Society International and the National Agriculture Extension Center of Vietnam hosted “Animal welfare... Global Farm Animals Read More Latest Updates
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss urged to set out leadership plans for animal welfare in open letter from 35 of UK’s top animal charities, celebrities and Larry the cat London—In the month of the bicentenary of the UK’s first ever animal protection law—Martin’s Act of 22nd July 1822—some of... United Kingdom Companion Animals Read More Latest Updates
Organizations around the world call for a ban on hunting trophy imports BRUSSELS—In a joint position paper, conservation and animal protection organizations from all around the world, including 45 non-governmental organizations from... Europe Trophy Hunting Read More Latest Updates
Shocking evidence pet dogs are being killed for China’s meat trade as police and activists rescue 126 dogs—many with collars—from an illegal slaughterhouse As the infamous so-called dog meat “festival” ends in south China’s city of Yulin, some 1,000 miles away in Shanxi’s... Global Dog Meat Trade Read More Latest Updates
Severe pain endured by nearly half of monkeys and mice in Korean labs as animal use increases SEOUL—Humane Society International/Korea has issued an urgent call for the National Assembly to enact legislation to reverse the alarming and... Global Animal Testing Read More Latest Updates
Transforming our global food system essential to meet Paris agreement targets BONN, Germany—Today, given the urgent need to make transformative shifts across food systems World Animal Protection and Humane Society International... Europe Animal Agriculture and Climate Change Read More Latest Updates
Two iconic big tusker elephants killed by trophy hunters in Botswana WASHINGTON—Trophy hunters have killed two of Botswana’s biggest elephants. They belonged to the few remaining “hundred-pounder” elephants—elephants with at least... Trophy Hunting Read More Latest Updates