Animal Welfare

An online magazine dedicated to helping protect animals living as pets.

Information on how to make your garden safe for hedgehogs and other wildlife. Includes wildlife first aid for motorists and links.

Bi-yearly newsletter. From Compassion Over Killing (COK). Washington DC, US.

Promoting the use of alternatives to animals in biomedical research product safety testing, and education. Mission, history, achievements, staff, sponsors, programs, publications, issues and links. Maryland, US.

A forum for discussion on issues in farming, research, and especially in veterinary medicine. Moderated by a pro-animal-rights DVM.

A place for pet owners and animal lovers of all kinds. May login as guest. Delphi.

A forum dedicated to the discussion and debate of animal issues, animal related issues, ecology and the environment.

Lists of invalid arguments for the factory farming industry and the (abstaining of) eating of meat.

A unique presentation of primary and secondary resources found in the collections of Canada's National History Society, HBCA - Archives of Manitoba, The Manitoba Museum, Parks Canada and several First Nations communities.

International charity and alliance of animal welfare organisations. Includes education and awareness campaigns to raise the standards of animal welfare throughout the world.

Includes useful links and resources about great apes as well as monkeys.

Online weblog about animal advocacy, action alerts, petitions, newsletters, and recipes.

Provides news animal rights and the environment including links and blogs to other sites that wish to make a difference in the world.

Discusses animal rights issues in Australian society and how they can be addressed through politics and legislation.

Frank R. Ascione, Ph.D. Research of the relation between cruelty to animals and violence to humans. He specifically excludes legal hunting and certain agricultural and veterinary practices as having any connection.

Online resource center dedicated to the campaign of banning the use of animals in circuses. USA.

Legislation as to the requirements of battery cages for laying hens. Hansard.

Photographs of slaughterhouse processes and slaughterhouse workers, by Gail Eisnitz. [WARNING - Disturbing imagery.]

Details of a case involving an eight year old Chow Chow who has been detained on Death Row in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The Charity looks after up to 120 retired horses, ponies and donkeys from all walks of life including the police, army and Riding for the Disabled. Also provides equine welfare grants. Chilterns, Buckinghamshire.

NAERIC represents ranchers involved in the collection of pregnant mares' urine (PMU). Presents a positive slant to the Premarin debate, including that the horses are managed according to strict welfare guidelines.

Read real-life experiences and solutions, as well as information about the professional organizations to call on for help in cases of equine abuse and neglect.

Working to save dolphin and whale species and offers the latest up-to-date news on whales, and dolphins.

Provides information on research and general information about humpback whales, gray whales, killer whales, northern right whales, bowhead whales, and minke whales.

George Monbiot.

An organization of letters-for-animals service to generate sample letters to legislators, businesses, and the media that address a broad spectrum of animal cruelty/protection issues.

Information about the selfish nature of humanity and the argument for supporting cultured meat.

News magazine about the radical animal rights movement worldwide. Includes diary of actions and prisoner listing.

CARA is located in the Philippines and promotes better animal welfare and spay/neuter of pets to help curb overpopulation.

Animal rights campaigners condemned the fine instead of a jail sentence imposed yesterday on the circus trainer. By Audrey Gillan.

Sanctuaries for abandoned or abused performing animals and victims of the exotic animal trade. About PAWS, the animals, news and events, volunteering and gift shop. California, US.

Protests the legalization of dog meat in South Korea. Online petition, articles, and ways to help end this practice.

Article discussing some of the commonly given reasons for not hunting and killing whales.

Funds research into better methods of testing products and curing disease, to replace the use of animals. A division of the (UK) National Anti-Vivisection Society. London, UK.

Working to make duck hunting illegal. Includes current legislation and statistics.

Works to fight against abuse, torture and exploitation of work and slaughter animals.

Charity campaigning against animal cruelty. News, campaigns, fact sheets and compassionate shopping guide.

Information about their campaigns, urgent actions, press releases, shop and membership. Excerpts from their Viva! Life magazine.

UK charity funding and encouraging medical research using alternatives to animals.

The IAVS campaigns peacefully for the law to be changed so that all animal experiments will be abolished.

A grassroots animal rights group campaigning to end the use of animals in research carried out by Oxford University.

Promoting the welfare of farm animals and the banning of sow stalls and battery cages in Canada.

NARN is the largest grassroots animal activist organization in the northwestern United States, with a focus on educating people about animals, vegetarianism, and the environment in order to move people toward making more compassionate choices.

Our mission is to promote Oriental and Chinese cultural gems, which have a lot of modern relevance to a green society and sustainable development. Information on animals in entertainment, vivisection, and hunting. English and Chinese.

A local non-profit making charitable organization in 1997, with a vision to change the ethnic attitude of the community towards the raising and keeping of pets.

LAP's mission is to help animals in distress on Lamma Island, Hong Kong. Includes help and information about spay or neutering your pet.

Voting records and candidate recommendations for CA legislators who are committed to the well-being of animals. Over 50 links to animal-related sites.

A nonprofit public benefit corporation based in California dedicated to international biodiversity conservation, global environmental education, and animal protection.

Created to help the animals in Romania to live a full and content life by providing financial support. A US tax-exempt corporation based in Livermore, California, United States.

A non-profit organization which protects animals, relieves their suffering, advances their health and welfare, prevents cruelty, and works for a just and compassionate society.