Victory for wild horses as federal court overturns BLM’s “corrupt” cash-for-adoption program
The Bureau of Land Management’s controversial scheme offered $1,000 for each wild horse adopted, but records revealed some people were ‘adopting’ the animals and then just sending them to slaughter after payment.
Life-size elephant herd exhibit coming to Hermann Park
One hundred and one life-size elephant sculptures will be showcased in Houston’s Hermann Park in April. Why it matters: The herd of Indian elephant sculptures has been migrating across the country to raise money for Indigenous and community-led conservation efforts.
A ‘recipe for extinction’: can the US’s envied nature protections survive Trump and his ‘God squad’?
Fears grow for endangered species as the US president sets about dismantling basic laws to protect them to make way for oil and gas drilling. Donald Trump has already begun dismantling parts of the envied US endangered species protections in his quest to boost oil and gas drilling, in part using a panel with an […]
Court restores protections for critically endangered whales off New England (The Hill)
A Massachusetts court restored federal protections for endangered whales off New England against entanglement in fishing equipment, overruling a lower court that struck down the federal rule.
Virginia Senate passes bill requiring animal testing facilities to send unneeded primates to sanctuaries (Court House News)
Advocates say the unneeded animals deserve to feel the sun on their faces and grass under their feet after a lifetime in confinement.
‘It’s an absolute travesty’: fears for border wildlife as Trump takes office
During Donald Trump’s first presidential term, he began an ambitious and costly border militarization program, including the construction of over 450 miles of wall that severed wildlife corridors and fragmented ecosystems in some of the country’s most remote and biodiverse regions.
‘The worst way of dying’: scientists urge coordinated effort to stop whales getting tangled (The Guardian)
Experts recorded 45 entanglements off Australia’s east coast in 2024—but believe that’s ‘the tip of the iceberg.’
‘Madness’: A new book by Jim Mason
From the intimate memories of a family farm to the sweeping arcs of human history, Jim Mason weaves a powerful narrative about humanity’s disconnection from nature. Exploring the profound cultural and environmental impacts of animal agriculture, Madness uncovers the origins of our ecological crisis and challenges the worldview that has alienated us from the living […]
Meat Without The Animals
Meat cultivated from cells—with no need to raise and slaughter an animal—is now a reality. But can it be made cheaply enough to displace animal agriculture?
Drugs, hormones and excrement: the polluting pig mega-farms supplying pork to the world
Mexico is a leading international pork producer, but Yucatán residents say the waste oozing from hundreds of enormous hog farms is destroying the environment.
Collapsing wildlife populations near ‘points of no return’, report warns (The Guardian)
Global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73% in 50 years, a new scientific assessment has found, as humans continue to push ecosystems to the brink of collapse.
Europe’s farming lobbies recognize need to eat less meat in shared vision report
Europe’s food and farming lobbies have recognized the need to eat less meat after hammering out a shared vision for the future of agriculture with green groups and other stakeholders.
