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Room to Roam Act (California)
This bill would help protect California wildlife and prioritize climate resilience by establishing a statewide policy requiring local governments to consider and implement measures to protect and improve wildlife connectivity through land-use planning. -
Rhode Island: Ban Cat Declawing!
Ask your state representatives to support and co-sponsor legislation to prohibit the surgical declawing of cats in New Jersey. Help end this cruel practice today! -
Pennsylvania: Ban Cruel Cat Declawing!
Legislation banning the declawing of cats, H.B. 508/S.B. 1178, is making its way through the Pennsylvania legislature. Ask your lawmakers to support a statewide declaw ban today! -
Coercive Control Bill (Massachusetts)
Legislation would help victims of domestic violence, both human and animal, by updating the Commonwealth’s legal definition of abuse to include regarding “coercive control” to include committing or threatening to commit cruelty to the animal companion. -
Animals in Entertainment
Travel, confinement, and being forced to perform tricks deprive wild animals of anything that might satisfy their complex physical, behavioral, and emotional needs. Their lives constitute abuse as entertainment. -
American Bar Association Protects Animals and Public Safety
The ABA puts its full endorsement behind the policy position that ownership of dangerous wild animals should be banned throughout the U.S.March 9, 2015 News -
A Minor Setback to Oregon’s “Every Animal Counts” Rule
When animals are neglected or abused, even in large groups, each animal suffers individually.April 6, 2015 News -
Hawaii Poised to Become the First State to Ban Wild Animal Entertainment Acts
Could Hawaii the first state in the U.S. to effectively ban wild animal entertainment acts?May 12, 2015 News -
Update from the Legislative Affairs Program
It has been a busy year for our Legislative Affairs Department!October 7, 2015 News -
California says Bye-Bye to Bullhooks
Just this week, California became the second with Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bullhook ban into law.August 30, 2016 News