Law enforcement’s decisive action in Hesperia and elsewhere sets model for eradicating animal fighting nationwide HESPERIA, Calif. — Animal Wellness Action today commended the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department for its decisive and tenacious series of actions to dismantling illegal cockfighting networks, with yet one more interdiction of illegal animal fighting this past weekend. The … Read more
The plan will also enable killing of threatened spotted owls and also open up timber cutting in old growth forests WASHINGTON, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today expressed deep disappointment with Democrat Senators for sinking a resolution led by Senator John Kennedy, R-La., to disapprove the U.S. Fish … Read more
BLUE MOUNDS, Wis. — Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), The Beagle Freedom Project, and Rise for Animals today cautiously celebrated the announcement, in the form of a settlement agreement, that Ridglan Farms will relinquish its license to breed and sell beagles for experimentation. … Read more
Barred owls and spotted owls are in the crosshairs We’ve learned in recent days that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s billion-dollar “Barred Owl Management Strategy” (BOMS) is not what it seems. It’s a scheme. A con job. A bait-and-switch. Sold to the public as a rescue mission for the threatened northern spotted owl, the … Read more
Sen. John Kennedy amassed support from 30 senators to bring a resolution to the floor to stop a plan to kill North American barred owls and incidental killing of threatened spotted owls WASHINGTON, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today applauded 30 U.S. senators for signing a discharge petition to … Read more
The fate of these raptors hangs not just on the actions of 100 U.S. senators, but the constituents who make their voices heard If Congress does not put the kibosh on the scheme to kill nearly half a million North American barred owls — purportedly to ease competition between them and spotted owls, who are … Read more
How online rodent-killer sales are killing America’s wildlife by Ted Williams Dr. Maureen Murray of Tufts Wildlife Clinic in North Grafton, Massachusetts, was trying and failing to maintain a clinical countenance. She was clicking through X-rays from necropsies she’d done on raptors killed by second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs), and the images were depressing both of … Read more
New investigative report ties rural cockfighting empire to felons and international crime rings WASHINGTON, D.C. — A blistering new report released today by Animal Wellness Action and Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) exposes a vast criminal enterprise spanning from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Dallas, Texas, centered around cockfighting but bound together with illegal gambling, narcotics trafficking, … Read more
Court affirms legality of landmark farm animal protection law modeled on California’s Proposition 12 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today applaud the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for upholding the dismissal of Triumph Foods’ challenge to Massachusetts’ Question 3, a voter-approved law that prohibits the … Read more
Heather King has an extraordinary bond and a special understanding of owls. It is a derivative of her immersion in owl societies I’ve made a public case that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s plan to orchestrate the killing of 450,000+ North American barred owls is costly, unworkable, and inhumane, and I am asking Congress … Read more