Attention horse lovers! Your help is needed to help stop the inhumane roundups of wild horses. The National Wild Horse Foundation is urging animal advocates from across the country to join its Pony Express campaign—a life-saving letter writing initiative. What You Can Do Please visit the ASPCA’s website to learn how you can send a [...]

Tell Obama: Stop the Next Drilling Disaster Obama must act now to save an irreplaceable way of life. Obama’s support for drilling in the Chukchi could doom this sensitive area’s polar bears and native communities. Dear Friend, Last month, a federal court in Alaska found that the Bush administration violated the law when it approved [...]

 Only in South Carolina: Barbaric Bear Baiting Dear Brenda, HSUS investigators recently attended several bear baiting events in South Carolina. What they found will shock you. A captive bear — claws and many teeth cut down or removed — is tied up and abused for hours. The S.C. Department of Natural Resources gives permits [...]

PARIS — Former screen idol Brigitte Bardot and marine campaign group Sea Shepherd on Thursday jointly appealed to Denmark’s sovereign to halt the annual killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands, a Danish territory. Hundreds of pilot whales — despite their name, members of the dolphin family — are being chased towards the shore, where [...]

Last week, wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies won a major victory when a federal court reinstated federal protections for these animals. But with Idaho officials still seeking to kill hundreds of wolves, Montana likely to follow1 and Wyoming officials still pursuing a deadly shoot-on-sight wolf management plan2, our work to ensure a [...]

ireport.cnn.com This is a cute video………………… CNN producer note mzkreepin shot this video today, August 18, of her chihuahua Izzy that has taken two baby squirrels under its wing. mzkreepin says she grew up around vets and learned something about how to handle baby animals in the process. – nsaidi, CNN iReport producer iReport — [...]

Airline’s Puppy Deaths Spark Debate about Commercial Breeders As animal lovers become more aware that purchasing a dog from a pet store supports the inhumane practices of puppy mills, commercial breeders are using online sources to get their dogs directly into homes across the country. On August 3, seven puppies died of suspected heat-related complications [...]

Taken From Sea Shepherd web site……. Sea Shepherd Featured in MUTTS Comic Strip Sea Shepherd is honored to have been referenced in last week’s MUTTS comic strip, an award-winning and highly celebrated comic strip which appears in over 700 newspapers and 20 countries worldwide. Sea Shepherd applauds and sends a special thank you to MUTTS [...]

Eating Local Food: The Movement, Locavores and More The local food movement, eating local, being on the “100 mile diet” or being a locavore are all synonymous with local food, an idea that has risen to prominence as an important part of the larger green movement. Local food integrates production, processing, distribution and consumption on [...]

Organic Food: Healthier for You and the Planet Though known colloquially as food that is grown to be more healthy (and is more expensive), in order for organic food to be certified as such, it must be produced under specific, legally-regulated standards and be subject to testing in order to retain certification. In agriculture, this [...]