The Humane Society of the United States' probe of a California slaughterhouse, which led to the biggest beef recall in U.S. history, cast a spotlight on the organization's secretive investigative unit. The hidden-camera investigation of Hallmark/Westl

Thank you for participating in our online poll to determine the cover for Defenders of Wildlife's 2009 calendar. With more than 23,000 of the 58,000+ votes cast in the poll, the adorable picture below of a Minnesota timber wolf pup by wildlife photographe

We must halt the brutal killing of Yellowstone's buffalo by the National Park Service and Montana's Department of Livestock. It is unconscionable that more than 1,200 buffalo from America's last wild, free-roaming herd have been sent to the slaughterhouse

The tape allegedly captured instances in which hens were impaled on wires from their cages, trapped and unable to get to food and water, and caged with decomposing corpses of other hens. "... the judge did not want to set a legal precedent."

Each year wild bears are killed so that their parts can be sold in Traditional Asian Medicine (TAM) shops in the United States and internationally.The Act specifically bans the import, export and interstate trade of all bear parts and products.......

Take action now! Write to the Montana Promotion Division -- the state's tourism officials -- and speak out for sensible management of these American icons!

Two years after B.C. Premier Campbell announced a "historical land use agreement" that was intended to protect Canada's Great Bear Rainforest, it remains unlegislated. Although the land use agreement was supposed to establish new conservancy boundaries,

RESEARCHERS believe they may be on the verge of a breakthrough in the fight to save the Tasmanian devil from a deadly plague that is threatening the species with extinction. The unlikely would-be saviour of the world's largest marsupial carnivore is an

The next thought that comes to mind is those who have not yet had this chance, like the 800 dancing bears in India, plus those in Pakistan and the Ukraine. It is always difficult to upkeep the celebratory spirit for too long when it comes to animal prote

Just when it seemed that the Chinese had plumbed the depths of animal humiliation, along comes something even worse. The country which gave you bears riding bikes now proudly presents ... lions and tigers on horseback. In one of the nation's most