ALDF Points to Severe Cruelty and Dangerous Legal Violations in Agency’s Kill Methods

PETA and ALDF Will Seek to Add Case of Rabbit Denied Veterinary Care to Lawsuit Challenging Roadside Zoo's Federal License to Operate

OSHA Fines Animals of Montana While Failing to Require Protective Physical Barriers

In the courts, an animal and a chair are often valued equally. That's where Fran Ortiz steps in, as she explains in her ALDF blog "What is a Dog's Worth?"

ALDF Demands Department of Transportation Cease and Desist its Violations of Migratory Bird Treaty Act and National Environmental Policy Act

Is it ethical to confine the ocean's largest predators in tiny tanks and make them perform tricks? Is it safe?

A new "puppy lemon law" has been introduced in Illinois, known as Senate Bill 1639, that would provide consumer protection for pet owners whose puppies die as a result of puppy mill abuse.

Exciting technological progress has been made to replace animals in testing along with a groundswell of support among scientists.

Everyone who cares about animal law should watch the EC-Seal Products case with interest, and see whether the WTO gets the balance right in this one.

Champion cyclist Levi Leipheimer is going the distance with the Animal Legal Defense Fund to protect dogs!

Animal Legal Defense Fund Intends to Sue for Suffering Grizzly Bears Under the Endangered Species Act

Jonathan Schopf is a trial attorney with the Vincelette Law Firm in Albany, New York, where he represents individual, business and nonprofit clients.

Who wears fur anymore? It is an unquestionably cruel luxury that only the most callous would put on their shopping list.

Everyone is excited for the Academy Awards ceremony this Sunday. I've always been disturbed by the use of animals in film. This year's Oscars highlight the reason why.

Today’s daily action for National Justice for Animals Week is: Fight animal abuse from your home computer.

Today’s daily action for National Justice for Animals Week is: Help ALDF Help Animals

Animal Legal Defense Fund’s All-New App Gives Smartphone Users an Easy Tool to Protect Animals

Sunny is a sweet dog who was rescued from a serial dog abuser. Celebrate National Justice for Animals Week with ALDF through sharing Sunny's happy ending.

A recent New York Times headline read, "Tests in Mice Misled Researchers on 3 Diseases, Study Says." But how can we strengthen the broken legal structures that purport to protect laboratory animals?

Endangered Species Act Protects Grizzlies, But Chief Saunooke Bear Park Is Violating Law, Has No Permit to Keep Bears in Concrete Pits

For the first time in 15 years, wild rhesus monkeys of North Central Florida’s Silver River area may not be trapped. ALDF supports nonlethal alternatives to the trapping and removal of monkeys, such as sterilization and return to the environment.

Gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees are our closest nonhuman primate cousins, and they are endangered. Please sign the Model Ordinance for Great Apes petition today!

What does it mean to be endangered? For those endangered whales in fragile marine ecosystems, it means the difference of life and death.

Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-VA) Proposes Historical Bill to Reinstate Protection to Birds, Rats, and Mice

Animal Legal Defense Fund's annual study ranks laws across the country.

Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, if you are someone who cares about the welfare of animals, you’ll have to agree that November 6, 2012 was a bad day at the polls.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund urges all New Mexico residents to tell the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners not to drop their historic animal cruelty law.

ALDF is offering a $5,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator(s) who brutally slaughtered and mutilated dolphins off the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

On this election-day, ALDF asks you to vote for animals, by voting for the Animal Bill of Rights.

In a desperate attempt to resuscitate a dying industry, the Georgia Aquarium is vying for a permit to import 18 wild-caught beluga whales.

With change comes, inevitably, the skeptics. With the announcement last week that New York City is now considering a mandatory registry for convicted abusers, some predictable concerns were raised once again.

For the first time ever, an Indiana judge ruled that members of the general public had standing to sue the government for harm done to wild animals in Indiana.

Every day it seems, somebody tells me how difficult it is to prosecute animal cruelty cases. I hear so many excuses and, frankly, I'm tired of them.

Last week, the federal government removed wolves from the Endangered Species list in the state of Wyoming. Without protection, wolves and pups in Wyoming will be hunted ferociously.

Due to the torturous force-feeding process universally employed in the industry, foie gras, whether from Hudson Valley or any other producer, is never the humane choice.

How much is that puppy in the window of your local pet store? A lot more than just the $1,000 price tag.

In a landmark ruling for animals, an Oregon appellate court recognizes animals as sentient beings who qualify as victims for sentencing purposes.

We support closing the online sale loophole for puppy mills, but call on APHIS to go further by enacting tougher enforcement guidelines.

In 2010, we read the heartbreaking headlines about the deaths of seven puppies who were being transported in a cargo hold on an American Airlines flight. What has been done for animals on planes since then?

The San Francisco Animal Care and Control Deputy Director has said that the agency won't issue citations to chefs who give away foie gras.

Free foie gras, “foie-kage” fees, boycotting California wines—the attempts to shake off the recent foie gras ban in California are reminiscent of the Dr. Seuss story, “Green Eggs and Ham.”

Animal Legal Defense Fund’s 2012 Report Ranks Laws Across the Country; B.C., Newfoundland & Labrador Show Most Improvement

The California ban is a basic prohibition on torturing animals to make them taste better. I was shocked to hear officials suggesting they would not enforce the ban.

This study by the Animal Legal Defense Fund underscores the often-considerable differences that exist between the animal protection laws of the provinces and territories.

Animal Legal Defense Fund Asks Attorney General Harris to Take on Local Chefs, Industry Insiders Who Claim Force-Fed Foie Gras is "Humane"

As part of a school project, several Cyber Academy students recently made a presentation to the Rio Rancho Governing Body urging legislators to consider animal abuser registry legislation in their January session.

You know you've crossed into the Twilight Zone when celebrity chefs who promote the sale of foie gras, a "delicacy" consisting of the intentionally enlarged livers of force-fed ducks, claim to be victims.

Will Tony stay or will he go?

Please take a moment to urge Governor Otter to support future strengthening of the animal cruelty law with provisions for felony convictions on the first offense and meaningful penalties for violators.

Several federal wildlife investigators cracked an international smuggling ring that trafficked for years in sawed-off rhinoceros horns, which fetch stratospheric prices in Vietnam and China for their supposed cancer-curing powers.

Because dolphins, porpoises, and whales are so intelligent and should be regarded as "non-human persons," a group of scientists, ethicists, and animal welfare groups has proposed a bill of rights for them, advocating for greater protection under the law.

For Seaquarium Owners, Exploiting an Endangered Whale Is Just Business as Usual

Do you know where your food comes from? Let's hope not from Iowa.

Last year, "Windchill's Law" was introduced in the Wisconsin Senate, but it fizzled as the legislative session ended. In a continued effort to strengthen animal abuse laws, state legislators are trying to revive the bill during the current legislative session.

Kentucky Woman Represented by the Animal Legal Defense Fund Had Sued County for Failure to Protect Shelter Animals as Mandated by State Law

Prevent factory farmers from hiding what goes on behind closed doors.

Food safety risks, animal abuse, and illegal working conditions are rampant on factory farms, and the corporate agriculture lobby is attempting to pass so-called "ag gag" laws -- laws which would make it illegal to photograph or videotape at agricultural facilities, or to possess or distribute such evidence.

Today's daily action for National Justice for Animals Week is: fight animal abuse in one click.

In January, the City of Claremont, California announced that coyotes will be a "New Priority Project" for 2012.

Please take a moment today to contact Governor Brown and your state legislators! Urge them to oppose any legislation that will remove existing protections for homeless and lost companion animals.

With the support of marine scientists, environmental groups, and the International Game Fish Association, which keeps track of all sport fishing records, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted in November to protect tiger sharks, smooth hammerheads, scalloped hammerheads, and great hammerheads.

Help ring in the new year by inviting your friends and family to Abuse an Animal, Go to Jail! today.

Help the Animal Legal Defense Fund expose animal abusers by making a special year-end donation toward our work to protect animals from repeat abuse and win justice for animal victims.

Animal Legal Defense Fund Releases Annual Report Ranking Animal Cruelty Laws Across the Nation; Illinois Remains on Top, Mississippi Shows Most Improvement

Animal Legal Defense Fund's annual study ranks laws across the country.

Take a moment to speak out for horses!

Last week, the USDA announced the largest penalty ever assessed against an animal exhibitor for violations of the Animal Welfare Act when it settled with the owners of the Ringling Bros. circus for $270,000 stemming from alleged mistreatment of elephants and tigers.

Current regulations under the Endangered Species Act have created an illogical and self-defeating double standard that grants "wild" chimpanzees vital protections under the Act, while denying "captive" chimpanzees in the United States any protection at all.

Call Congress today!

Contact your legislators and let them know that you are concerned about animal abuse and domestic violence in your community.

More than a quarter-million Americans have already signed the Animal Legal Defense Fund's Animal Bill of Rights. Sign on your support and speak out to your lawmakers today!

California passed several significant bills into law targeting persons who victimize animals, including the following.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund, PETA, and three individuals filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service for violating the Administrative Procedure Act by excluding Lolita, a solitary orca who has been confined to a tiny concrete tank at the Miami Seaquarium for more than 40 years, from the Endangered Species Act.

Maybe it's time for the legislature of Florida and other states to start explicitly treating animals like the victims they, so very often, tragically are.

An innovative program, "dog owners" who break the law for the first time (dog license, leash law infractions, and the like) are being sentenced to attend a Pet Owner Responsibility Class in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and surrounding Bernalillo County.

By moving towards this next level of laws, we can continue to advance the interests of animals through the legal system and in so doing, help make their lives more valued and meaningful.

Help ban private ownership of exotic animals in Ohio!

The Cal-Maine facility, where more than one million chickens are crammed into cages so small that the hens cannot even spread their wings, was packed full of live birds in various stages of illness and disease, and caged alongside dead, decaying corpses.

More than 2.1 million people -- and millions of animals -- now protected.

California Governor signs law banning shark finning.

West Hollywood is the first municipality in the country to outlaw the sale of fur.

Slowly but surely, our culture and our laws are converging on a consensus that fashion should be pain-free.

Help stop the abuse and slaughter of horses for human consumption!

Veterinarians play an integral role in the fight against animal cruelty. Download ALDF's quick reference guide for state by state information regarding veterinarians' duty to report suspected animal cruelty.

The bill outlawing shark fins in the State of California has cleared a big hurdle and is on its way to a final vote by the full Senate.

The Los Angeles City Council moved to make it illegal to buy animals from vendors on public streets or sidewalks.

The expertise seasoned prosecutors bring to the charging process reflects the complexities which often determine the possibility of going forward with a criminal prosecution.

It's time to close loopholes in the federal animal fighting law, thereby giving law enforcement the tools they need to hold animal abusers accountable.

Help make it illegal to attend or bring a minor to animal fights!

In its treatment of farmed animals, how does the United States compare to Europe? Sadly, the answer is: not so great.

Los Angeles County supervisors passed a first vote July 19th, to let animal control officers have the right during administrative hearings to decide when a dog should be labeled as dangerous or vicious.

A new law was passed on July 5th in the Bahamas, banning commercial shark fishing.

On July 7th, the Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg Producers announced an agreement by which the two traditional adversaries will jointly recommend that Congress pass new standards for the welfare of egg-laying hens. So how does this legislation fit into the broader scheme of federal animal protections?

Peter Bower of Shelby, Ohio, was arrested on May 18th, 2011, and charged with two counts of animal cruelty after allegations that he had sex with three companion dogs and possibly a horse owned by a local equestrian center.