Miami Seaquarium gets eviction notice several months after death of Lolita the orca
The Miami Seaquarium, an old-Florida style tourist attraction that was ‘home’ to Lolita, the beloved Orca who died last year, is being evicted from the waterfront property it leases from Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava cited a “long and troubling history of violations” in a lease termination notice sent to the chief […]
Christspiracy
For 5 years filmmakers Kip Andersen and Kameron Waters traveled around the world hopping from Rome to Jerusalem, Oxford to India—interviewing everyone from renowned theologians and archeologists to Christian farmers and Indigenous shamans—all to reveal a massive coverup, one that will transform history, forever.
Out with the animal cruelty. In with … mushrooms? These farmers are leaving factory farming behind
Farmer Tom Lim had been raising poultry for 20 years when the company he worked for as a contractor terminated him without warning, leaving him saddled with debt and unsure of where to turn. “My heart just dropped,” he said. “I didn’t know where to make money to pay off our loans.”
One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot
One of the world’s smallest fish, measuring about the width of an adult human fingernail, can make a sound as loud as a gunshot, scientists have said. The male Danionella cerebrum, a fish of about 12mm found in the streams of Myanmar, produces sounds that exceed 140 decibels, according to the study published in the […]
Alaska’s Iditarod dogs get neon visibility harnesses after 5 were fatally hit while training
The Iditarod, the annual sled dog race celebrating Alaska’s official state sport, is set to get underway with a new focus on safety after five dogs died and eight were injured in collisions with snowmobiles while training on shared, multi-use trails.
Exposing animal auctions in Latin America
We Animals Media teamed up with Sinergia Animal to explore how animals are farmed for food in Chile and Argentina. Our photojournalists Renata Valdivia and Molly Condit spent two weeks visiting more than 30 locations where pigs, cattle, goats, poultry, and fish are bred, raised, exploited, transported, and slaughtered for food.
Camels forced to fight
Rodeo, bullfighting, cockfighting and—camel wrestling? This is another example of how animals are exploited for human entertainment, and right now, it’s camel wrestling season in some parts of the world. We Animals Media photojournalist Jane Mar documented the tradition of camel wrestling in Türkiye—where male camels, typically during mating season, are forced to wrestle for […]
Meet WAM Communications Manager Sally Thompson
Sally Thompson started as an intern and over the years worked her way up to own the role of Communications Manager. Sal is the voice behind many of the stories you read on our website, and she leads our communications strategy and team. Sally’s talent, sharp wit, and ability to juggle many plates at once […]
Footloose Montana
After hearing too many stories about dogs being horribly injured or killed by legal traps on public lands, in the winter of 2007 a group of Montanans who enjoy hiking, fishing, hunting, skiing, boating and recreating on Montana’s public lands and waterways gathered to discuss how we could help keep those lands safe for people […]
Humpback sex photographed for first time–and both whales were male
Humpback whales have been observed having sex for the first time, with this landmark moment having an interesting twist—the two whales were male. Despite decades of research on humpback whales, sightings of the male’s penis have been rare. Copulation by the species had not been documented by people—until now, when two photographers captured images of […]
End dairy slaughter
Over the past year, Farm Transparency has captured shocking new footage of the dark reality of Australian dairy farming. The commercial breeding, confinement and slaughtering of hundreds of thousands of cows and calves in the dairy industry, is completely unnecessary, especially given the vast array of easily accessible plant-based alternatives. We want a world where […]
Grizzly bears still need our help
While the species once roamed from the Pacific to the plains, the grizzlies of the contiguous United States were reduced to less than 2% of their historic range and numbers by the 1930s. In 1975, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed bears in the lower-48 under the Endangered Species Act, or “ESA,” in an […]
