This Art Shows How Eating Meat Hurts the Amazon
This Art Shows How Eating Meat Hurts the Amazon

These powerful works of art will show you how eating meat fuels the fires in the Amazon rainforest. If you care about the planet, it’s time to go vegan.

Video: Illegal Turtle Dealer Busted, Convicted
Video: Illegal Turtle Dealer Busted, Convicted

Leon Vinston pleaded guilty to two counts of offering wild animals for sale after a PETA sting.

Michigan Man Pays $400,000 to Kill Harmless Rare Black Rhinoceros
Michigan Man Pays $400,000 to Kill Harmless Rare Black Rhinoceros

Chris Peyerk of Dan’s Excavating, Inc., is apparently so desperate to show he can fire a gun that he paid $400,000 to kill one of 5,500 remaining black rhinos.

Video: Birds Saved in Hurricane Dorian Bid Rescuers Sweet Farewell
Video: Birds Saved in Hurricane Dorian Bid Rescuers Sweet Farewell

A camera captured the beautiful moment when the animals, after briefly hesitating and sticking close to their rescuers, took to the sky and soared once again.

British Tourists Massacre 500 Monkeys
British Tourists Massacre 500 Monkeys

In recent years, tourists have brought hundreds of dead primates and their body parts back to the UK as “trophies” from hunting trips.

5 Things You Can Do to Help the Amazon Rainforest Right Now
5 Things You Can Do to Help the Amazon Rainforest Right Now

You don’t have to donate millions like Leo, and you don’t have to feel helpless watching the Amazon rainforest burn.

People Etch Their Names Into Elderly Rhinoceros’s Back
People Etch Their Names Into Elderly Rhinoceros’s Back

Does it really need to be expressly stated that animals shouldn’t be treated like chalkboards?

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Paralyzed Animals, Cubs in Freezer Uncovered at Captive Big-Cat Ranch
Paralyzed Animals, Cubs in Freezer Uncovered at Captive Big-Cat Ranch

Officials find big cats and cubs paralyzed, jerking, dead in a freezer, and suffering from mange at a facility likely part of the wildlife tourism industry.

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Beachgoer Ignores ‘Don’t Touch Horses’ Warning, Gets Dealt With Accordingly
Beachgoer Ignores ‘Don’t Touch Horses’ Warning, Gets Dealt With Accordingly

For those of us who have ever been touched in an annoying way by someone, with one solid kick, this beautiful horse just became our hero.

Disturbing Photo Shows Elephant Hacked Apart With Chainsaws by Hunters
Disturbing Photo Shows Elephant Hacked Apart With Chainsaws by Hunters

A drone camera has captured a disturbing image of the hunting crisis: Lying dead on the ground in Botswana is an elephant cut apart for ivory by hunters’ chainsaws.

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Trophy Hunter Darren Carter Disowned by His Daughter in Viral Video
Trophy Hunter Darren Carter Disowned by His Daughter in Viral Video

In a brave video, Sydney Carter tells her estranged father, “[K]nowing you trophy hunt beautiful animals like lions who are slowly getting endangered is just, it’s too much.”

Hollywood Animal Trainer Settles Baseless Lawsuit Against PETA, Pays Up!
Hollywood Animal Trainer Settles Baseless Lawsuit Against PETA, Pays Up!

After a baseless lawsuit, animal trainer Paws for Effect settles by paying PETA and agreeing not to exhibit wild animals, who suffer the most for film and TV.

Johns Hopkins Experimenter Scrambles Barn Owls’ Brains—Help Stop Him
Johns Hopkins Experimenter Scrambles Barn Owls’ Brains—Help Stop Him

Shreesh Mysore pokes electrodes into owls’ brains, mutilates the tissue so severely that the birds become “unusable” to him, and then kills them.

PETA Calls Out Animal Experimenter During ‘The Bachelorette’
PETA Calls Out Animal Experimenter During ‘The Bachelorette’

We figured out a way to beat the prime time censors and expose what Colorado State University is doing to wild birds in its laboratory.

Grizzly Charges Photo-Taking Tourist. Are Roadside Zoos Making People Thoughtless?
Grizzly Charges Photo-Taking Tourist. Are Roadside Zoos Making People Thoughtless?

A tourist was caught on camera recklessly approaching a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. But the bear photo op industry may deserve some blame for this type of foolishness.

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