Alan Cumming Joins PETA to Announce Legal Action to Release Tonka
Alan Cumming Joins PETA to Announce Legal Action to Release Tonka

The organization’s landmark legal case seeks to have 11 chimpanzees currently housed at a dismal holding facility be released to accredited sanctuaries.

Victory! State Farm Cuts Ties With Cruel Iditarod Following PETA Appeal
a dog has died on the trail of the 2017 iditarod
Victory! State Farm Cuts Ties With Cruel Iditarod Following PETA Appeal

The insurance company joins numerous other businesses that have severed ties with the deadly race—urge Liberty Media to follow suit.

Gajraj the Elephant’s Journey to Freedom After 51 Years
Gajraj the Elephant’s Journey to Freedom After 51 Years

Gajraj the ailing elephant’s misery has come to an end, and he has arrived at his new home!

Victory! PETA Campaign Frees Elephant Gajraj After 50 Years of Neglect
Victory! PETA Campaign Frees Elephant Gajraj After 50 Years of Neglect

After more than 50 long years in chains, Gajraj has been rescued.

SeaWorld’s ‘Electric Ocean’ Show Is a Dud (but Torture for Animals)
SeaWorld’s ‘Electric Ocean’ Show Is a Dud (but Torture for Animals)

Instead of investing in a plan to release long-suffering captive animals into seaside sanctuaries, SeaWorld is tormenting them with booming music and fireworks.

Two More EU Countries Just Banned Wild-Animal Acts
Two More EU Countries Just Banned Wild-Animal Acts

As the world comes to understand that animals are not ours to use for entertainment, entire nations are forbidding cruel circus performances.

The Tigers From Your Vacation Selfies Could Be on Laos Restaurant Menus
The Tigers From Your Vacation Selfies Could Be on Laos Restaurant Menus

Fewer tigers exist in the wild than are held captive on farms, yet restaurants in Southeast Asia serve the big cats’ meat.

Video Reveals Matador Gored to Death in “Sport” That Takes 40,000 Lives
A bloodied bull is deeply stabbed by a matador's sword during a bullfight. San Sebastian de los Reyes, Madrid, Spain
Video Reveals Matador Gored to Death in “Sport” That Takes 40,000 Lives

Anyone who’s even slightly familiar with this blood sport knows an agonizing death occurs every time that a bull is forced to fight.

Pamela Anderson Questions SeaWorld on PETA’s Behalf at Annual Meeting
Pamela Anderson Questions SeaWorld on PETA’s Behalf at Annual Meeting

Anderson is urging the ‘abusement’ park finally to take the only step that can save the company: Retire all animals to seaside sanctuaries.

Icon Cloris Leachman Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Icon Cloris Leachman Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Cloris Leachman is a film and television icon, and for animals, she’s just as much a legend. PETA celebrates her with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Bears Trapped in Sunken Pits Beg Tourists for Food
Bears Trapped in Sunken Pits Beg Tourists for Food

See the disturbing video footage captured by an eyewitness.

PETA Germany Shuts Down Germany’s Last Chimpanzee Show
Chimpanzee forced to ride a tricycle in a staged show at German amusement park Schwabenpark
PETA Germany Shuts Down Germany’s Last Chimpanzee Show

Animal advocates in Germany are saying “Auf Wiedersehen” to the abusive chimpanzee act—the last of its kind—at Baden-Württemberg’s Schwaben Park amusement park.

© PETA Germany
San Diego Airport Changes Rules in Order to Ban PETA’s Anti-SeaWorld Ad
San Diego Airport Changes Rules in Order to Ban PETA’s Anti-SeaWorld Ad

The airport has rejected PETA’s message, despite the numerous alterations that have been made in order to comply with increasingly ridiculous guidelines.

Helpless Donkey Mauled to Death by Tigers at China Zoo
Close-up of tiger looking into camera
Helpless Donkey Mauled to Death by Tigers at China Zoo

You won’t believe what caused this death.

© iStock.com/Dirk Freder
Hope for Lolita: Feds Agree That Her Tiny Tank May Violate the Law
Lolita at the Miami Seaquarium. She has her head above the water and her mouth is open.
Hope for Lolita: Feds Agree That Her Tiny Tank May Violate the Law

We’re calling on the Miami Seaquarium to end Lolita’s decades of deprivation by releasing her into a seaside sanctuary as soon as possible.

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