A judge has issued Pennsylvania’s first habeas corpus order for a nonhuman animal, advancing NhRP’s fight to move five African elephants from the Pittsburgh Zoo to a sanctuary.

Campaigners hope Wikie and her son, Keijo, could finally experience a better life having spent years in concrete tanks and forced to perform.

The birth took place in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, where the population of mountain gorillas continues to rise, despite multiple human threats.

The 25% death rate is prompting renewed criticism of zoo breeding programs and fresh calls to prioritize sanctuary-based alternatives.

Almost 10 percent of the world’s captive dolphins are held in Mexico, but they will now enjoy far greater protections and welfare after the country voted to shut down the entertainment industry.

After a rescue dog was violently murdered by his new owner, Florida now provides a registry of animal abusers, which members of the public can use to screen potential adopters.

Discover the best vegan Thanksgiving recipes and turkey alternatives for a plant-based holiday feast full of flavor and compassion.

We often reduce farm animals to numbers: how many are raised, how many are killed, how much they produce. But behind each statistic is an individual, with their own personality and sense of being. What does it mean to live a life where your entire existence is reduced to profit? Let’s take a closer look.

Zoe Rosenberg faces up to five and a half years in prison after allegedly entering a California slaughterhouse and rescuing animals, a case that has drawn national attention to the treatment of farmed animals and the legal risks of open rescue activism.

The 17 remaining orcas in captivity in the United States are part of a generation that will be the last to endure life behind glass.

The Missouri woman, who starred in the HBO documentary series Chimp Crazy, plead guilty to two counts of perjury and one of obstructing justice, after lying that a primate she was accused of mistreating had died.

Federal agents seized 190 dogs from Leshon Eugene Johnson’s Oklahoma home, the most ever taken from a single person in a federal dogfighting case.

Driven by Chef Alain Passard’s love of nature and commitment to sustainability, the celebrated Paris restaurant now joins a growing list of Michelin-starred venues embracing plant-based cuisine.

Campaigners say new legislation is meaningless without an immediate end to the daily mass killing of stray animals in preparation for the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

The German zoo says the cull was necessary to control its captive baboon population and prevent overcrowding.

A pioneering South African project is using radioactive tagging to protect rhinos, making horns easier to trace and harder to traffic.

A new study shows the reintroduction of wolves is driving a long-awaited recovery of aspen trees, decades after the ecosystem fell out of balance.

Roadside zoos are a welfare nightmare for animals. They are typically small zoos where wild animals are confined in small cages and frequently forced to interact with visitors in stressful and unnatural ways.

A proposed bill on Jeju Island aims to designate dolphins as legal persons, a move environmentalists say would better protect the endangered animals from human-caused harm.

Tonia Haddix was taken into custody after defying court orders once again, as authorities discovered another chimpanzee hidden in the same tiny basement cage where she once kept Tonka.