After losing about 26 percent of its rhino population to poachers, Zimbabwe now faces expulsion from the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES).

A conservation group is threatening to go to court if the Obama administration doesn't start making progress on a backlog of endangered species listings.

This holiday season, a bright, beautiful young pit bull named Sierra is with her loving adoptive family, far from the man who beat and tormented her as a puppy. Without creative legal intervention from ALDF attorneys, it's likely Sierra would not have

Tell your Representative to co-sponsor H.R. 1326, The Great Ape Protection Act, that will end the use of great apes in invasive research.

Hasani, the San Francisco Zoo's young western lowland gorilla, celebrated a milestone last week -- his first birthday! To mark the occasion, the zoo brought in a specially made birthday cake and invited the public to celebrate along with him.

Took, harvested, bagged, downed, secured, dispatched. A whole lot of euphemisms for one very basic concept: brutal killing. In this horrifying blog post for "sportsmen" on a Pennsylvania news site, about the joyful "successes" of area bear hunters,

The Crufts dog show was plagued by controversy this year: Pedigree pulled their sponsorship, RSPCA boycotted the event, and the BBC refused to air the competition. The storm was created by a documentary called Pedigree Dogs Exposed, which took an

We need an international ban on whaling. Japan continues to kill whales under the disquise of RESEARCH,and that is a lie Even the prime minister openly admitted that it was for food,not scientific research.They are targeting endangered whales in a whale

Two and a half year old baby Val has been performing for the Carson and Barnes Circus for about a year now. IDA is deeply concerned about her safety. We know the trauma that both mother and calf suffer when violently separated and prematurely weaned.

In early December 2009, an animal sanctuary in Rhode Island was foreclosed upon, the owner evicted, and the animals ignored for 24 hours while the financial institutions stuck to their protocol of not allowing anyone onto the site. You can read more