July 31-August 3: Taking Action for Animals National Conference
Washington, DC, USA: From lobbying and grassroots organizing to education and citizen advocacy, you’ll gain the tools and confidence to take action in your own community. Learn how to enact policies and support legislation to protect animals on the local, state and federal level as well as how to rally others to join you in […]
July 19: Columbia VegFest 2026
Columbia, SC, USA: Columbia VegFest 2026 returns as a one-day celebration of plant-based living, bringing together food, wellness, and sustainability at Segra Park. Hosted by Columbia VegFest, this annual event highlights the growing interest in vegan and eco-conscious lifestyles while creating a welcoming space for all—whether fully plant-based or simply curious.
Fish Die Quietly: Scenes from fish-harvesting in India
On assignment with the non-profit Samayu, We Animals photojournalist Shatabdi Chakrabarti recently documented fish harvests and markets across Andhra Pradesh, India. The harvest begins with workers standing waist-deep in aquaculture ponds at sunrise and pulling nets toward shore. The nets tighten, full of bodies. Rohu and catla leap desperately from the surface, slamming into one […]
Lease sale seeks to transform Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into a fossil fuel industrial zone
All major oil companies refused to bid; one small oil company and a state of Alaska-sponsored corporation snapped up five leases in a rush to exploit the Refuge’s Coastal Plain. Even though the interest in today’s sale was tepid, the new leasing still poses significant threats to habitat, iconic wildlife, and Indigenous ways of life […]
A Vision Beyond Suffering: We Animals at AVA Summit Canada
Advocates from around the world gathered in Toronto, Canada, for AVA International’s Animal & Vegan Advocacy Summit—a global conference focused on confronting the systems that exploit animals, and envisioning how to dismantle them. During the opening ceremonies, We Animals founder Jo-Anne McArthur introduced keynote speaker Zed Nelson, author of The Anthropocene Illusion, a photographic study […]
Jews Against Factory Farming
A substantial body of research suggests there is significant and unnatural pain caused toward animals during their raising and slaughter for human consumption, that factory farming is one of the leading contributors to carbon emissions, and that the consumption of large amounts of meat is a leading contributor to cardiac disease, gastrointestinal ailments, and certain […]
Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary
Lola ya Bonobo is the only bonobo sanctuary in the world and the only place in the world where you can meet bonobos—your closest living relatives in the animal kingdom—face to face in a semi-wild environment. Visit for a day or stay overnight in an eco-lodge.
Book: Striped Reckoning: Tiger Kings and the Battle to Rescue America’s Captive Big Cats
Striped Reckoning charts the shocking history of exotic big cats in the United States and chronicles how the struggle to drive a trio of breeders out of business and re-home their nearly two hundred captive lions and tigers led to a momentous new law protecting these majestic animals. Through the years big cats have been […]
How to keep dogs safe this summer
Hot weather tips from the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Even on a day when it’s 70 degrees outside, the temperature inside a car can hit 90 degrees in just 10 minutes. On a hot day, the temperature inside a closed car can shoot as high as 116 degrees in the same amount of time.
Photo-Activism: Photography With Purpose
What difference can a photo make? Humans are remarkably skilled at ignoring the damage our actions are causing to ourselves, to animals and the natural world, and continuing down the same destructive road. Many war photographers I’ve spoken to over the years expressed their sadness that reactions to their work weren’t greater, that public outrage […]
Lawns That Save Lives
When students at CA Frost Environmental Science Academy watched a nearby forest get cleared for apartments, they didn’t just feel upset—they took action. What started as concern for displaced wildlife grew into four years of research, community building, and real habitat transformation right here in Grand Rapids.
Maned Wolves: The Last of Its Line
The maned wolf is not a wolf. He is not a fox. He is not closely related to either, despite the name. He is the sole living member of his genus, the last surviving lineage of an ancient cohort of large South American canids that vanished, with the rest of the late Pleistocene megafauna, somewhere […]
