Wildlife
Award-winning filmmaker Sangita Iyer is fighting to help India’s elephants who are suffering from exploitation and the effects of human expansion. Los Angeles, January 12, 2024 — There are only about 35,000 to 40,000 Asian elephants left on planet Earth.
The international campaign “Kangaroos Are NOT Shoes” targets ADIDAS for using kangaroo leather and is gaining momentum after a successful global day of action. Los Angeles, January 8th, 2024 — The year 2024 kicked off with two major athletic footwear companies, Nike and Puma, implementing their pledge to stop using leather from kangaroos in their shoes.
With the award-winning new film Ending Real Fur now streaming for free on UnchainedTV, LA’s animal lovers gathered under a huge billboard promoting the new movie. The sidewalk media event took place in the heart of Los Angeles. Hollywood, California, November 28th, 2023 – Along with celebrating the powerful film, featuring Tim Gunn of Making the Cut and Project Runway fame, the participants offered dramatic proof that fabulous and fun fashion can be achieved without causing any animal to suffer for fur, leather, down, wool or any other animal-derived material.
The citizens of Los Angeles are expressing their opposition to California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife’s plan to bulldoze LA’s Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve Los Angeles, November 24, 2023 — Despite a judge having ruled against it, California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) seems determined to try and forge ahead with its very destructive and highly unpopular plan to bulldoze LA’s Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve over a period of about a decade. Located near Marina del Rey, it’s home to upwards of 2,000 species of animal and plant wildlife, with possibly more than a million sentient beings living there.
A recent PETA exposé of a cruel primate vivisection lab in the Colombian city of Cali inspires calls to pass the new CARGO Act to ban US-funded foreign animal experiments. Los Angeles, September 1st, 2023 — The animal rights organization PETA has launched an exposé of a cruel primate vivisection lab in the Colombian city of Cali which ended with over 100 monkeys being confiscated by the authorities due to many breaches of local legislation.
Lion Ark: The Incredible Rescue of 25 Circus Lions Los Angeles – Lion Ark: this award-winning documentary feels more like an action movie, complete with secret missions, undercover operations, intelligence briefings, nerve-wracking confrontations, extremely dramatic rescues, and high-speed races against time.
The Court of Appeal in New York has ruled against animal rights advocates seeking to “free” Happy the elephant On June 14, 2022, the Court of Appeals ruled on the case of Happy, the lonely elephant at Bronx Zoo, and unfortunately, it does not look good for her — or any of the other captive animals whom animal rights advocates had hoped could be recognized as legal persons by US law.
The Hippos Who Made Legal History For the first time in American history, a U.S. judge has recognized non-human animals as legal persons. Federal Judge Karen Litkovitz has given the status of interested persons to a population of Colombian hippos.
URGENT – Sign to End Wild Horse Roundups Now! Animal lovers: we have a chance to end the wild horse roundups happening now. We need YOU to sign this crucial petition immediately. Click here RIGHT NOW to demand that Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack declare a threatened wild horse herd to be a study herd.
International Anti-Fur March Day: #TimesUpFur From Manhattan to Los Angeles to Portland to the nation’s capital, hundreds of people took to the streets on Saturday, October 9th, 2021 for International Anti-Fur March Day to demand an end to the fur trade.