Animal Rights

With careful planning and inclusive perspective, we believe nations can build sustainable tourism programs that benefit their economies and the environment.

Tzeporah Berman and Ina-Maria Shikongo: Destructive oil drilling, fracking and new roads are coming to a UNESCO World Heritage site, putting endangered elephants at even greater risk.

April M. Short: The salmon stories project collects and archives stories from everyday people living on the edges of the Pacific Northwest bioregion, who have a connection with salmon in some way.

Koohan Paik-Mander: The decimation of populations of whales and dolphins over the last decade—resulting from the year-round, full-spectrum military practices carried out in the oceans—has fast-tracked us toward a cataclysmic environmental tipping point.

Paul Watson has no problem with critics calling him and his marine-life-defending colleagues pirates—it’s far better than helplessly standing by and doing nothing in the face of the violence against animals they have witnessed.

Stephen Kaufman: As a physician, medical educator and animal advocate, I oppose the senseless waste of tax dollars and animals’ lives in live tissue training.

Dee Gaug: Performing elephants are denied all that is natural to them and are forced to endure beatings, electric shock, food and water deprivation and intimidation.

Katie Stennes: Welcome to the cruel world of wildlife killing contests, family events where children play amidst piles of slaughtered animals—and legal in 42 states.

Jennifer Barckley: Americans eat more meat per capita than any other country, even though meat consumption is linked to heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

Debra Merskin, Carrie P. Freeman, and Alicia Graef: We wouldn’t say “it” or “that” when referring to humans, so why would we for other sentient individuals?

Nina Jackel: We know that YouTube can take more meaningful steps to better monitor and remove videos promoting animal abuse. The question is, will they?

Allie Granger: Before a severe weather event, producers must provide extra feed and adequate shelter to their animals, monitor water and heat sources, and develop an evacuation plan.

Fox News’s mendacious hosts and producers have no excuse. After repeatedly telling Trump supporters the election was stolen

Cathy Liss: The damage done under Trump must be expeditiously reversed under the incoming administration, including any regulations rammed through in these final weeks.

Graeme Green: Shooting animals with cameras, not guns, is one key path forward in wildlife conservation.

Linda Tyler: Egg companies sit by while nonprofits and venture capitalists fund high-tech startups attempting to save 300 million baby chicks from macerating grinders each year.

federal regulators not only let animal abusers off the hook but also placate the factory farm industry by subverting worker and consumer interests.

Nina Jackel: All Bali elephant parks scored in the “severely inadequate conditions” category for captive elephants’ freedom of movement, social interaction, hygiene, nutrition, environment, tourist interaction, and animal management.