Monsanto: A bill to outlaw organic farming next week? US House and Senate are about (in a week and a half) to vote on bill that will OUTLAW ORGANIC FARMING (bill HR 875). There is an enormous rush to get this into law within the next 2 weeks before...

There is Still Time to Stop Montana's Pro-Horse Slaughter Bill! Call 406-444-4800 - leave your NO on H.B. 418 position for 5 Senators - this can be done again - even though you've probably already done it. Email the "yes" Senators listed on this page now!

Nova Scotia's Environment Minister, David Morse authorized a commercial hunt of grey seals to occur on Hay Island again this year. The slaughter is set to begin on Wednesday, February 4 and will run until March 14, 2009, or until there are no pups alive

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel Tuesday sent a memo to the heads of all executive departments and agencies, ordering a stop to all pending regulations until a legal and policy review can be conducted by the Obama administration.

Tell the Bush Administration to cancel the December 19 auction of Utah's Redrock wilderness to oil and gas speculators. They are not Bush and Cheney's to give away. Once the drilling begins, this majestic wilderness can never be restored. Take Action

President-elect Obama will begin forming his new Cabinet. Please sign our petition immediately to request that he appoint a new Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who will have the power to save hundreds of thousands of animals from pa

To help the Obama Administration restore leadership in conservation, Defenders is calling on the next president to reverse course from the Bush Administration and move forward to address the biggest threat to wildlife -- global warming. PLEASE SIGN

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. "Change has come,"

In a historic victory, California voters have approved Proposition 2, a landmark measure that bans three of the cruelest factory farming confinement systems - battery cages, veal crates and gestation crates -- in the state by 2015.

Her record is so extreme that she has perhaps done more harm to animals than any other current governor in the United States-Voters of both political parties who care about the humane treatment of animals must unite to make sure that the nation's worst go