June 2014 After hearing from PETA and its supporters, the Bourbonnais Friendship Festival made the compassionate decision to cancel Nosey’s appearance at the fair. Thanks to kind people like you, Nosey was saved from another tedious week of walking in circles with riders on her back.
June 2014 After learning that the San Antonio Zoo hastily removed more than 230 egret nests, which resulted in the death of at least four egrets, PETA campaigned to stop the zoo from removing more birds from the site. The zoo decided to wait until after nesting season to make the site less attractive to … Read more »
June 2014 In an episode of the Animal Planet series Call of the Wildman, the show’s star, Ernie Brown Jr., chases down a zebra who had supposedly escaped from a fenced-in yard and roughly wrestles the animal to the ground. PETA learned that the Grévy’s zebra—who’s protected under the Endangered Species Act—had been drugged prior … Read more »
May 2014 PETA and Animal Beta Project provided Texas authorities with evidence of a so-called “crush video” outfit producing videos of rabbits, chickens, and other animals who were being tortured. One participant was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and her alleged cohort will soon face trial.
May 2014 The fight against tests on animals for cosmetics has reached another important milestone, as India added a new clause to its Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, officially banning all animal tests for cosmetics following an intense campaign by PETA India and work by Indian Member of Parliament Maneka Gandhi and others.
May 2014 When PETA learned that a black bear named Boudreaux was being held in a tiny, dark indoor cage without access to the outdoors for nearly four years at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo, we immediately filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The documents that we requested from the agency’s … Read more »
May 2014 We received calls regarding a bird deterrent net at a New Hampshire mall that had fallen into disrepair, so we contacted the property management company, and it immediately got workers out to flush the birds from the netting and repair it.
May 2014 A New Jersey high school was planning to auction a puppy as part of a fundraising event. We educated officials on the dire consequences for the animals and their new families that often result from puppy auctions, and officials agreed to cancel the auction.
May 2014 Synthetically produced recreational drugs were being sold on store shelves in New Zealand until the government announced that all the drugs would be pulled until manufacturers presented test results proving that their products were safe, which meant that many new animal tests would be conducted. Animal rights activists working to stop this contacted … Read more »
