Wildlife
A deep dive into the controversial plan to build America’s largest monkey-breeding facility in Georgia and the community’s determination to stop it Los Angeles, August 8th, 2024 — A group of outraged Georgia residents have united to fight a plan to put what would be America’s largest laboratory monkey-breeding facility in the small town of Bainbridge, Georgia, which is 233 miles south of Atlanta and just 40 miles north of Tallahassee, Florida.
Get your tickets NOW to the new film, Humans & Other Animals! It’s by the filmmaker who brought us Speciesism: The Movie and debuts across the US starting July 12th. Hollywood, July 5th , 2024 — Award-winning filmmaker Mark DeVries, who created the hit documentary Speciesism: The Movie, has a brand new film called Humans & Other Animals!
India’s elephants are struggling, both in the wild and in captivity. Now, Sangita Iyer, the maker of the documentary Gods in Shackles, is using four practical solutions to save them Los Angeles, May 31st, 2024 — India’s elephants desperately need help.
Miami Seaquarium Closing! After decades of protests and relentless campaigning by animal rights activists, Miami-Dade County officials have finally ordered the infamous Miami Seaquarium to shut down. This landmark decision comes after years of criticism over the treatment of marine animals, including the orca Lolita, who died in captivity last year.
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.
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.
Animal lovers nationwide are being urged to comment immediately to the National Park Service and endorse Plan “B” that would finally remove the 3-mile-long fence at Point Reyes National Seashore that’s killing Tule Elk. Los Angeles, September 8th, 2023 — Animal lovers call it a race against time.
Tokitae the orca, also known as Lolita, died in the world’s smallest orca tank at the Miami Seaquarium after spending more than 50 years in captivity Los Angeles, August 20th, 2023— The orca Tokitae, named Lolita by her jailers, died on Friday, August 18th, 2023, in the world’s smallest orca tank at the Miami Seaquarium, in Florida, after having spent more than 50 years captive there.
PETA pledges one million dollars to save a thousand Cambodian monkeys, that PETA charges were illegally imported, and asks the public to help with signatures Los Angeles, April 8th, 2023 — The fate of 1,000 monkeys, that PETA says were illegally imported into the United States, is now in the hands of the US Government.
With recent success in Ecuador, the case for granting legal personhood to some captive animals is advancing all over the world. A huge case comes up May 18th in New York involving Happy, the elephant. Happy, Estrellita, Kaavan, Chucho, and Billy may become names that future law students will have to memorize.