Animals in Research, Equines, Farm Animals, Pets & Cruelty, Wildlife, Federal Legislation, In the News /
House subcommittees boost funds for key animal protection measures on wildlife trafficking, slaughterhouse kill speeds and horse soring and slaughter
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block
Congress has begun its annual process of funding federal departments, agencies and programs, and last night two House subcommittees voted to include several crucial provisions benefiting animals in their FY2021 appropriations bills.
Animals in Research, In the News /
Breaking news: Nation's top science panel recommends VA should stop most research on dogs
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block
Wildlife, Federal Legislation, In the News /
Breaking news: U.S. House passes major infrastructure package with key provisions for wildlife corridors, horse transport
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block
The U.S. House has just approved provisions that would make highways safer for wildlife to cross and create safer conditions to transport horses across the country, as part of the Moving Forward Act, a package of reforms designed to restore America’s aging infrastructure.
Wildlife, Action Alerts, Federal Legislation, In the News /
Putting an end to lion trophy hunting in memory of Cecil
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block
The killing of Cecil the lion five years ago this week by an American trophy hunter in Zimbabwe triggered worldwide outrage. Father of a pride, lured with an elephant carcass, wounded by an arrow, he suffered for hours before being killed by gunshot. As it turned out, this was a shot heard around the world, giving momentum to global demand for an end to trophy killing of animals.
Wildlife, Federal Legislation /
Key Congressional committee holds hearing on bill that restricts keeping primates as pets
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block
In Arizona, a woman’s marmoset monkey attacked her newborn grandchild, scratching and biting the baby’s face and splitting open one nostril. In New York, a neighbor’s pet capuchin monkey bit off a 22-month-old girl’s finger when the child stuck her fingers through a backyard fence. In Tennessee, an escaped macaque monkey attacked and severely injured a woman washing a car in her driveway; the woman’s injuries required surgery and doctors told her she was lucky she wasn’t killed.
Equines, Wildlife, Federal Legislation /
Legislation making it safer for wildlife to cross highways and mandating reforms for horse transport moves to full House for vote
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block
A key House committee has approved a package of investments in America’s infrastructure, including provisions to make U.S. roadways safer for both drivers and wildlife and to create more humane conditions for transporting horses within the country.
The INVEST in America Act package, H.R. 2, passed the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday by a 35 to 25 vote, and it now heads to the full House floor for consideration.
In the News /
Recognizing Humane Legislators on Capitol Hill
In this challenging time, we want to shine a spotlight on a bipartisan group of lawmakers who led the way together during the last year in making the world a better place for animals. Humane Society Legislative Fund and Humane Society of the United States are pleased to present Senators Pat Toomey, R-Pa, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Representatives Ted Deutch, D-Fla., and Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., with our 2019 Humane Legislators of the Year Award for their successful leadership in establishing a national anti-cruelty law, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act.
Equines, Action Alerts, Federal Legislation /
Triple Crown season begins this Saturday with racing industry under a cloud over horse deaths, trainer indictments
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block
The coronavirus pandemic is not the only problem plaguing the horse racing industry as it prepares for the first of the Triple Crown races at Belmont Stakes this Saturday with altered schedules, shorter race times and a TV-only audience.
Wildlife, Action Alerts /
Trump administration opens Alaska's national preserves to cruel practices like trophy-hunting denning bears and wolves and their cubs; proposes disbanding protections on Kenai Wildlife Refuge
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block
The Trump administration has given trophy hunters the green light to commit some of the worst sort of carnage on 20 million acres of Alaska’s pristinely beautiful national preserves.
Wildlife, In the News /
Trump Jr.'s argali trophy hunt in Mongolia cost American taxpayers $77,000
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block
We’ve just learned that Donald Trump Jr.’s trophy hunting trip to Mongolia, where he hunted an argali sheep—an animal listed as "threatened" under the U.S. Endangered Species Act—cost American taxpayers a whopping $77,000.
Wildlife, Action Alerts, Federal Legislation /
Unless we act fast, our oceans could lose some of their most precious inhabitants
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block
Equines, Farm Animals, Pets & Cruelty, Wildlife, Elections, Federal Legislation /
Good riddance to Steve King: Iowa primary voters dump U.S. congressman who supported horse slaughter, dogfighting and factory farming
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block
