Critical insights at the intersection of animals and politics
The FIGHT Act is one major remedy for rampant animal fighting and the cluster crimes commingled with it. You can listen to this article here: Cockfighting is a multi-billion global crime network, with U.S.-based cockfighters at the center of the whole enterprise, feeding birds to fighting arenas in our homeland and around the world. Mexico … Read more
PRESS RELEASE Measure designed to stop the use of packs of dogs and traps to kill mountain lions, bobcats, and lynx for their heads and their fur. Measure allows lethal control of any nuisance cats when warranted Colorado — Volunteers with Cats Aren’t Trophies, a statewide political committee and coalition seeking to qualify and pass … Read more
There is no way for the Fish and Wildlife Service to prevent in-migration of barred owls from the control area or adjacent areas where the forest owls are established. Washington, D.C. — Key animal welfare groups today charged that the Biden Administration plan to kill upwards of 450,00 barred owls, a species native to North … Read more
We can all celebrate Independence Day without causing terror for animals, humane groups assert Washington D.C. — Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, and the Animal Wellness Foundation are broadening public awareness about the potential hazardous effects of live fireworks displays — even just once a year — on local habitat and … Read more
But groups decry National Park Service, in a final rule, jettisoning other key provisions to reduce the state’s intensive management of bears, wolves on its lands Washington D.C. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy applauded a provision in a final rulemaking action issued last week by the National Park Service … Read more
National Sheriffs’ Association, National District Attorneys Association, American Gaming Association, and United Egg Producers are among nearly 600 endorsers of bipartisan FIGHT Act (Washington D.C.) — The National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA) this week endorsed federal legislation designed to strengthen enforcement of our nation’s anti-dogfighting and anti-cockfighting laws and to crack down on related offenses. The association, on behalf … Read more
Press Release Police seized four distressed dogs in ‘feces-infested kennels,’ arrested potential nationally known dogfighter in connection. Louisville, KY — With a nationally known dogfighter just arrested in the state, Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy are calling on state and federal lawmakers from Kentucky to do more to crack down … Read more
Federal law promoting safety of horses and jockeys has driven down on-track deaths, even as some outliers in Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing networks seek to dismantle law Washington, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy reacted favorably to news that the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear … Read more
Hilary Franz manages millions of acres of public lands, and says killing scheme offers no guarantees, and that ‘we can do better’ Seattle, WA — In a video statement, Hilary S. Franz, Commissioner of Public Lands for Washington state, pointedly urged U.S. Fish and Wildlife to abandon its proposal to spend nearly a quarter-billion-dollars to kill … Read more
Hilary Franz says killing scheme costly, unworkable and may result in adverse collateral effects Seattle, WA — Hilary S. Franz, Commissioner of Public Lands for Washington state, wrote yesterday to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland with “concerns about the plan to kill nearly a half-million barred owls over the next three decades” and expressed alarm at … Read more