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Coping with the death of your pet

When your pet dies, it's natural to feel sorrow, express grief, and need understanding and comfort from friends and family. Sometimes it's hard for others to understand your loss.
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Lawsuit challenges federal government’s secretive elephant trophy import

Four conservation and animal protection groups sued the Trump administration today over its secretive new policy of approving elephant and lion trophy imports behind closed doors. The lawsuit targets a U.S. Fish and Wildlife decision, outlined in a March 1 memo, to shut the public and scientists out...
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The Center for Biological Diversity, Ian Michler and Born Free USA
March 20, 2018
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Welcome to my humane backyard

The suspect creeping up near my front fence was a tough character—broad-leafed and thick-stemmed and threatening to invade my property and swallow it whole if I didn’t act fast. There was no hesitation that summer morning as I headed to work: Off with his head! It was a decision made all too easy by...
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Nancy Lawson
September 1, 2013
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Exploited into extinction

Seven years ago, Minnesota attorney Jack Fay went to Kenya to meet the orphaned baby elephant he had been “fostering” through online donations. The HSUS state council member waited at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, on the edge of Nairobi, as Naipoki’s keepers brought her back from a day in the forest...
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by Karen E. Lange
November 1, 2019

Foods that can be poisonous to pets

Some foods that are safe for people can be very dangerous for pets. Protect your pets by reading our list of some common foods that can be poisonous for dogs, cats and other pets.
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Snakes

Solitary creatures who prefer to be left alone, snakes have a bad reputation that doesn’t match their behavior.
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Elephants

Sensitive, intelligent elephants are the world’s largest land mammal (by weight) and a living link to long-extinct species like the woolly mammoth.
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Coyotes

Coyotes deserve lives free from persecution.
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Woodchucks

Shy creatures who reside in extensive burrows, woodchucks keep to themselves and might go unnoticed in your own backyard.
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Glue boards

Glue boards (also known as glue traps) might seem like a safe solution to ridding your home of uninvited guests of the crawling, flying or scurrying sort, but they are one of the cruelest.
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Helping Captive Wild Animals

You can help us keep wild animals where they belong—in the wild.
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Promoting Smarter Wildlife Management

Together, we can learn how to peacefully coexist with wild animals and support their natural habitats.
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Better off alive

On a Sunday evening in June, camo-clad men chat and laugh by pickups next to a restaurant near Billings, Montana. There is a faint but unmistakable odor of decay coming from a large trash bin across the parking lot—the just-weighed bodies of 29 coyotes, some of them rotting for two days in 90-degree...
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By Karen E. Lange
September 1, 2018

What to do about snakes

Snakes instill a deep-rooted fear in many people that few other animals can match. But there’s no justification for the persecution of these animals and the acts of violence often committed when even the most harmless of them is sighted.
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Adapted from the book Wild Neighbors

The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International release findings of an undercover investigation into a lucrative ivory trade in the nation’s capital

WASHINGTON⁠—Today the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International released findings of an undercover undercover investigation revealing a lucrative ivory trade in the nation’s capital, where ivory dealers take advantage of the lack of local laws banning the sale of ivory....
Press Release
July 23, 2019

Why killing coyotes doesn't work

For more than a century, human beings have waged a war on coyotes, killing them with poison, traps, guns, hunting dogs and a variety of other cruel coyote killing methods . Nonetheless, the wary nature of coyotes and their remarkable adaptability has allowed them to quadruple their range throughout...
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Wild Neighbors (adapted from the book)
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Cruelest shows on earth

The white Bengal tiger paces back and forth, back and forth in a squat cage on the edge of the show ring. The cage is little longer than the tiger's body. The clock ticks down to the start of three scheduled performances at this fair in Pennsylvania. Potted palms and wooden masks decorate the ring...
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by Karen E. Lange
March 1, 2019
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Banning Trophy Hunting

To save animals from death for the sake of a wildlife trophy.
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Coyote hazing: Guidelines for discouraging neighborhood coyotes

Coyotes generally avoid people. But if you encounter coyotes who have adapted to urban environments, hazing techniques can teach them to keep away.
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