American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) - Association representing more than 69,000 veterinarians working in private and corporate practice, government, industry, academia, and uniformed services.
Animal Aid - UK's largest animal rights group and one of the longest established in the world, founded in 1977. Campaigns against all forms of animal abuse.
Animal Defense League (ADL) - A nationally active, grassroots, animal liberation and defense organization. The ADL works to inform the public about animal abuse issues on a local level. It fully supports the nonviolent direct-action tactics of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). Provides support through public education, activist support, funding and campaigning for legal representation of accused activists, announcing received communiques, and compiling lists of ALF activity.
Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) - The leading U.S. animal rights law organization working nationally to defend animals from abuse and exploitation. ALDF's network of over 750 attorneys is dedicated to protecting and promoting animal rights.
Animal Liberation Front (ALF) - Consists of small autonomous groups of people all over the world who carry out direct action according to ALF guidelines.
Animal News Center (ANC) - Reporting the news from the world of animals. Current information about pets, wildlife and all other animals.
Animal Welfare Act and Regulations - The Animal Welfare Act was signed into U.S. law in 1966. While its original intent was to regulate the care and use of animals in the laboratory, it has become the only Federal law in the United States that regulates the treatment of animals in research, exhibition, transport, and by dealers. Other laws, policies, and guidelines may include additional species coverage or specifications for animal care and use, but all refer to the Animal Welfare Act as the minimum acceptable standard.
Animal Welfare Approved (AWA) - Seeing the AWA seal on meat, dairy and egg products gives consumers a way to identify products which come from humane farming systems, and it gives farmers a way to show their customers how they farm. This certification and other technical and marketing services is offered to farmers at no charge. Because AWA is not financially dependent on farmer fees, it is able to remain unbiased and transparent in its auditing and certification. Find AWA-aproved farms and products in your area.
Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) - Animal protection and education. Founded in 1951 to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans.
AnimalConcerns.org - Online community for people concerned about the welfare and rights of animals. News, feature articles, general information and resources, government resources, actions.
AnimalLaw.com - provides access to legislation and legal matters pertaining to the rights and welfare of animals.
Animals Used for Fur - Information on the fur industry and its practices, impact on animals, actions and boycotts, and other fur news.
Animals Voice - Information, news, campaigns, boycotts, action alerts, editorial and photography about animal rights and its defenders.
Center for Biological Diversity - Works through science, law, and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction.
Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care - In the 1950s, the Air Force established a colony of chimpanzees captured from the forests of Africa to serve in the U.S. space program. After showing the "right stuff" the chimpanzees were reassigned to serve as biomendical research subjects where they remain today. Some of the survivors and descendants of the original colony have a chance at a very different future. The Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care wasestablished in 1997, under the leadership of Jane Goodall and Roger Fouts, to create a sanctuary where chimpanzees could live out the remainder of their lives in the best environment possible. The Center has been awarded custody of 21 of the Air Force chimpanzees.
Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT-UK) - Grassroots organization dedicated to saving animals who would otherwise be slaughtered and skinned for nothing more than human vanity.
Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms (CREO) - In collaboration with scientists from around the world, CREO has developed standardized criteria for analyzing extinctions that can be applied across diverse taxonomic groups. CREO is now in the process of organizing efforts to collect extinction data and analyze them against these criteria so that an accurate and comprehensive survey of recent extinctions can be produced.
Defenders of Wildlife - Dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities.
Elephant Sanctuary - The Elephant Sanctuary of Hohenwald, Tennessee is a natural-habitat refuge where sick, old and needy elephants can once again walk the Earth in peace and dignity. The Elephant Sanctuary supports a bill to prevent circus elephants from performing in Tennessee.
EcoHealth Alliance - A wildlife conservation organization that works worldwide to save endangered species from extinction through collaborative projects with local conservationists.
Endangered Species Recovery Council (ESRC) - A global, non-profit task force of dedicated and accomplished scientists and conservationists who pool their varied expertise in the interests of actively restoring and aiding in the recovery of threatened and endangered species.
FDA: Animial and Veterinary - Regulates the manufacture and distribution of food additives and drugs that will be given to animals. These include animals from which human foods are derived, as well as food additives and drugs for pets. Also covers isues of animal cloning, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), and Animal Drug User Fee Act of 2003 (ADUFA).
Fund for Animals, The (The Fund) - With regional offices working around the country on animal advocacy campaigns and animal care facilities such as the world-famous Black Beauty Ranch, The Fund is one of the largest and most active organizations working for the cause of animals throughout the world.
Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME) - FRAME considers that the current scale of animal experimentation is unacceptable. It also recognises that immediate abolition of all animal experiments is not possible. Its long-term goal is the total elimination of laboratory animal use, through the development, validation and acceptance of replacement alternative methods. Until this goal is reached, it also supports efforts to reduce the numbers of animals used through better science and better experimental design, and to refine procedures so that the suffering of any animals necessarily used is minimised.
Golden Gate Audobon - A volunteer-oriented organization dedicated to protecting Bay Area birds and other wildlife.
Great Ape Project International - Founded to work for the removal of the nonhuman great apes from the category of property, and for their inclusion within the category of persons.
GreenScare.org - The term Green Scare refers to the federal government's expanding prosecution efforts against animal liberation and ecological activists, drawing parallels to the "Red Scares" of the 1910's and 1950s. It comprises the tactics that the US government and all their tentacles (FBI, IRS, BATF, Joint Terrorism Task Forces, local police, the court system) are using to attack the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front and those who publicly support them.
Humane Farming Association (HFA) - HFA's goals are to protect farm animals from cruelty, to protect the public from the dangerous misuse of antibiotics, hormones, and other chemicals used on factory farms, and to protect the environment from the impacts of industrialized animal factories.
Humane Society of the U.S. - The world's largest animal protection organization, encompassing nine regional offices; five affiliates; an international arm; 250 staff members, including veterinarians, wildlife biologists, lawyers, animal behaviorists, and other professionals; and seven million members and constituents.
In Defense of Animal Rights (IDA) - An international animal protection organization dedicated to ending the exploitation and abuse of animals by raising the status of animals beyond that of mere property, and by defending their rights, welfare and habitat.
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) - Works to improve the welfare of wild and domestic animals throughout the world by reducing commercial exploitation of animals, protecting wildlife habitats, and assisting animals in distress.
International Primate Protection League (IPPL) - Working for the well-being of primates. IPPL has field representatives in 31 countries. Its advisory board is composed of experts from the fields of zoology, anthropology, medicine, biology, veterinary medicine, and psychology. Many IPPL officers live for long periods with primates in their natural habitats.
Jane Goodall Institute - Works to increase primate habitat conservation and to expand non-invasive research programs on chimpanzees and other primates.
National Audobon Society (NAS) - Mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds and other wildlife for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.
National Wildlife Association (NWA) - Conservation group, uniting individuals, organizations, businesses and government to protect wildlife, wild places, and the environment.
No Compromise - Militant, direct action newspaper of grassroots animal liberationists and their supporters.
Oceania Project, The - Education and research organization dedicated to raising awareness about Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) and the ocean environment.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) - Operates on the principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. PETA focuses on areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the fur trade, and in the entertainment industry. It also works on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds and other "pests," and the abuse of backyard dogs.
Primate Freedom Project - Dedicated to ending the use of nonhuman primates in biomedical and harmful behavioral experimentation.
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) - The RSPCA's influence covers the whole range of animal protection. The Society is involved in practical welfare, law enforcement as well as high-profile campaigning and education. It employs veterinary experts and consultants in the care and treatment of farm livestock, wildlife, domestic pets and animals used in research.
Satya - A magazine of vegetarianism, environmentalism, and animal advocacy.
Saving Our Resources Today (SORT.org) - Provides a direct link between individuals and organizations working on environmental and animal welfare issues.
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) - Working to expose animal abuse at Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) facilities located in the USA and in the UK.
Wildlife Habitat Council - Group of corporations, conservation organizations, and individuals dedicated to protecting and enhancing wildlife habitat.
World Animal Net (WAN) - The world's largest network of animal protection societies with over 1,500 affiliates in more than 80 countries campaigning to improve the status and welfare of animals.
World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) - WSPA has offices in nine countries and over 200,000 individual supporters. It is the world's largest network of animal protection specialists having a membership of over three hundred animal protection societies in seventy one countries. The society is represented on numerous international bodies and is the only animal welfare organization to have consultative status at the United Nations and the Council of Europe.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) - Dedicated to protecting the world's wildlife and wildlands. Also, see the WWF's Annual Report.
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