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Stop horse slaughter: Our country's dark secret
Julie Hauserman
Petitioners to USDA: Make animal welfare records public again
Kate Mara ("House of Cards," "Megan Leavey") and two key Congressional lawmakers joined The Humane Society of the United States, Care2 and Humane Society Legislative Fund in delivering close to 200,000 petition signatures to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, urging the agency to restore online...
Together, we can reduce needless cruelty to animals.
Brutal step backward for wild horses and burros
Karen E. Lange
Below the rim
From the edge of the canyon, looking out at the towering stone ridges and the sun-spackled desert valley, listening to the wind whistle around the rocks, it seems like it could be a hundred, a thousand or even 10,000 years ago, when this isolated Arizona chasm leading to the Colorado River and the...
Jane's lost chapter: Documentary offers new look at Goodall's early work
Within the first few minutes of Jane , a new documentary from National Geographic, the viewer is treated to wide shots of a gorgeous lush landscape, extreme close-ups of frilly insects going about their business—and a shot of young Jane Goodall, sitting in a boat, making her way into Gombe, Tanzania...
It's their time
Other than the pattering of rain on the leaf-strewn ground and an occasional mourning dove call, it's quiet in this part of Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Then you hear it: low grunting and hooting that rises through the pine trees into a ruckus of screeches and howls. Owls? Coyotes? No, it's...
Editor's note 5/30/17: GOOD NEWS! The HSUS and the New York Blood Center have announced an agreement to provide long-term sanctuary for the Liberian chimpanzees. Read the update The chimpanzees live on six islands, near where a tangle of rivers meets the fierce waves of Liberia's Atlantic coast....
Rethinking the roundups
Editor's Note: After this story was originally published, it was brought to our attention that some of the language could be interpreted differently than intended. The HSUS does not believe that wild horses are overpopulated, and the story's subtitle has been revised to remove the word...