This anti-poaching bill seeks to protect rare and abundant bears from attacks WASHINGTON — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy— organizations that have led national advocacy efforts to expose and shut down the commercial trade in bear organs—applauded the reintroduction today of the Bear Poaching Elimination Act in the U.S. House of … Read more
by Ted Williams It is time to recognize the usefulness, if not the necessity, for national legislation uniformly prohibiting commercialization of bear viscera. — Michigan University’s Animal and Legal and Historical Center Bile extracted from bear gallbladders is an ancient and spectacularly ineffective Asian prescription for coughs, acne, itchy eyes, dirty teeth, dirty hair, white … Read more
Bill Would Halt the Trade in Bear Gallbladders, Paws and Bile, Align Vermont’s Wildlife Trafficking Policies with More than 40 Other States Montpelier, VT — Animal Wellness Action celebrated the successful passage of a provision in State Bill S.301 to prohibit the sale of bear bile and other internal organs used in Traditional Chinese Medicine … Read more
Congress is overdue to halt live exports of horses for consumption,fighting animals for combat, mink pelts for fashion, and bear bile as a potion. Many domestic forms of animal exploitation survive, and even thrive, because the people behind these enterprises tap foreign markets for their cruelty and contraband, whether they’re peddling live animals or animal … Read more
Bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by House Foreign Affairs Chairman,introduces Bear Poaching Elimination Act Survey the world in search of the worst localized horrors meted out against animals — the animal sacrifices of the Gadhimai Festival in Nepal every five years, the fish-in-a-barrel shooting of captive lions in South Africa, the water-borne butchering of pilot … Read more
Washington, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action, the Animal Wellness Foundation, Center for a Humane Economy, SPCA International, Protect Our Wildlife-Vermont, and other organizations lauded House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, and Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., and Annie Kuster, D-N.H. for introducing legislation to protect the world’s eight species of … Read more
Captive and Wild Bears Throughout the World Killed for Bladders and Bile Washington, D.C. – Today, Animal Wellness Action, the Animal Wellness Foundation, the Center for a Humane Economy, SPCA International, and other organizations lauded U.S. Senators John Kennedy, R-La., and Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., for introducing legislation to stop the exploitation of bears, seeking to end … Read more
Ashland, OR –The Center for a Humane Economy reacted to today’s announcement from the Jackson County District Attorney that Greensprings Fire Chief Gene Davies will not be prosecuted for rendering aid to a young black bear on April 7th. Chief Davies was cited on April 8th by Oregon State Police (OSP) for his role in … Read more
Press Release The animals were all placed for adoption by the Bureau of Land Management’s adoption programs, which put federally protected equines at risk of slaughter Sutherlin, Oregon – A review of ODFW’s administrative rules governing wildlife rehabilitation reveals that the agency violated those rules when it killed a young black bear cub rescued by … Read more
Ashland, OR – A young Oregon black bear was killed by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) officials on April 8, 2021, and a Jackson County volunteer fire chief responding to a call from a concerned citizen has been cited with a misdemeanor by the Oregon State Police for his role in rescuing the … Read more
Washington, D.C. – Today, Animal Wellness Action applauded lawmakers for introducing legislation to stop the exploitation of bears, seeking to end the killing of the animals for their bile and gall bladders. Representatives Ted Lieu, D-Calif.; Rodney Davis, R-Ill., Ann Kuster, D-N.H., Glenn Thompson, R-Penn., and Mike Thompson, D-Calif.., introduced the Bear Protection Act, H.R. … Read more
He says that’s just one reason to oppose federal anti-poaching bill One thing that’s always baffled me are the mental contortions exhibited by some animal-use industries to justify cruelty. Cockfighters, for example, say the birds love to fight, even though the hapless creatures are trapped in a cordoned-off pit and have deadly knives strapped to … Read more
Animal Wellness Action Calls on Congress to Move Both Key Wildlife Measures Washington, D.C. — House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva and Water, Oceans and Wildlife Subcommittee Chairman Jared Huffman, D-Calif. conducted a hearing on measures to combat global trafficking in bear parts and halt the trade in primates for use as pets. Animal Wellness … Read more
Captive and Wild Bears Throughout the World Killed for Bladders and Bile Washington, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action, and the Animal Wellness Foundation lauded U.S. Senators John Kennedy, R-La., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., for introducing legislation to stop the exploitation of bears, seeking to end the killing of the animals for their gall bladders. … Read more
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (“the Department”) has been allowing the baiting and killing of endangered wolves. It’s also allowing the baiting and hound hunting of black bears despite a voter-approved ballot measure that forbids these practices except in extreme circumstances. Department personnel will emphatically deny they are allowing baiting. But the facts, … Read more
The U.S. can play a major role by halting imports of sport-hunted trophies of threatened and endangered species According to a report issued by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service this spring, the United States granted import permits between 2013 and 2017 for 32,100 black bears, 10,122 sandhill cranes, 2,645 African lions, 2,552 Chacma baboons, and 2,148 mountain … Read more
Congress takes aim at multi-billion-dollar trade in wildlife parts Co-authored by Wayne Pacelle From ivory tusks to bear ball bladders to rhino horn to pangolin scales, wildlife trafficking involves the killing of wild animals for commercial sale of their parts and other products. It occurs on a scale second perhaps only to factory farming. From … Read more
Group Applauds Reps. Lieu, Davis, Kuster, and Thompson for Introducing the Bear Protection Act Washington, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action applauded lawmakers for introducing legislation to stop the exploitation of bears, seeking to end the killing of the animals for their gall bladders. Today, Representatives Ted Lieu, D-Calif.; Rodney Davis, R-Ill., Ann Kuster, D-N.H., … Read more
In an op-ed this past weekend in the New York Times, hunting enthusiast and outdoors writer Ted Kerasote panned the decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to de-list the grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem and to pave the way for Wyoming to initiate the first trophy hunting season on the animals in … Read more