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

ALDF Crime Tips is a first-of-its-kind app designed to help you help animals—by letting you report abuse and neglect of animals in your community right from your phone.

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.

Take action to secure a meaningful sentence for father of boy who shot three dogs while hunting.

Perpetrator Intentionally Set Trap, Killing Homeowner's Dog

Undercover Investigation Leads to Landmark Florida “Public Nuisance” Lawsuit

A dark world of animal abuse is proliferating in Florida. Known as "backyard slaughter," animals are illegally slaughtered and butchered on makeshift farms. The banned meat is then sold on the black market.

Horse Shot in Santa Rosa Pasture

When finally seized by law enforcement, animals who have been abused and neglected by their owners should not sit in cages for months while the defendant’s criminal case drags on.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.