Update: Where Is This Cub’s Mother? (Video and Photos)
Update: Where Is This Cub’s Mother? (Video and Photos)

Conditions at the Cherokee Bear Zoo remain unimaginably grim.

Update: Reports of Abuse and Deaths at Sham Sanctuary
Update: Reports of Abuse and Deaths at Sham Sanctuary

Eyewitnesses report sick, injured, and dying animals left to suffer at a California hellhole marketing itself as a “sanctuary.”

Happily Ever After for Boudreaux the Bear
Happily Ever After for Boudreaux the Bear

A bear goes from spending years inside a tiny, dark cell at a zoo to a sanctuary with sunshine and fresh air.

Update: Finally! Feds Suspend Jambbas Ranch’s License
Update: Finally! Feds Suspend Jambbas Ranch’s License

The notoriously awful Jambbas Ranch has been hit with a fine and license suspension after failing animals for years.

Update: Tourists Aren’t the Only Ones Trapped at This Sad Tenn. Attraction
Update: Tourists Aren’t the Only Ones Trapped at This Sad Tenn. Attraction

Bears at the Three Bears General Store in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, are pelted with food and living in a cramped, barren pit.

Feds Report Animals Still Suffering at Lazy 5 Ranch
Feds Report Animals Still Suffering at Lazy 5 Ranch

According to a recent USDA report, North Carolina’s Lazy 5 Ranch continues to put animals and the public at risk.

Video: Rescued Bear Nurtures Her Newborns at Sanctuary
Video: Rescued Bear Nurtures Her Newborns at Sanctuary

If PETA hadn’t freed Ursula before she gave birth, her cubs would have been torn away again. Watch her get to nurture her babies for the first time.

Creative Chimpanzees Use Log to Bust Out of Kansas City Zoo
Creative Chimpanzees Use Log to Bust Out of Kansas City Zoo

Chimpanzees share 98 percent of our DNA. And sometimes they prove to be even more creative than we are.

Update: Roadside Zoo Operator Posts Photos of Dead Birds, Raises More Questions
Update: Roadside Zoo Operator Posts Photos of Dead Birds, Raises More Questions

After a roadside zoo operator posts disturbing photos of three dead birds on Facebook, PETA calls on authorities to investigate.

Eyewitness Reports Injured and Suffering Animals at Lazy 5 Ranch
Eyewitness Reports Injured and Suffering Animals at Lazy 5 Ranch

Reportedly injured and suffering animals at a sleazy roadside zoo may now get the help that they need after a shocked visitor came forward.

VIDEO: Action for Marius at Copenhagen Zoo
VIDEO: Action for Marius at Copenhagen Zoo

The public killing of Marius the Girrafe at Copenhagen Zoo on Sunday prompted PETA Germany to send its own message to the zoo’s managers.

Apparently Confining Bears in Pits Isn’t Cruel Enough for Roadside Zoo
Apparently Confining Bears in Pits Isn’t Cruel Enough for Roadside Zoo

PETA sends an urgent complaint to the USDA after receiving heartbreaking photos of a white tiger imprisoned at the notorious Cherokee Bear Zoo.

Feds Seize Endangered Sea Turtle Following PETA Complaint
Feds Seize Endangered Sea Turtle Following PETA Complaint

When threatened gopher tortoises turn up at a miserable roadside menagerie with no record of how they got there, PETA swings into action to protect the species.

Two Menageries Have Chutzpah … but Not Much Else
Two Menageries Have Chutzpah … but Not Much Else

Two menageries are shamelessly seeking permission to breed more animal “inventory.”

Beware the Word ‘Sanctuary’
Beware the Word ‘Sanctuary’

The label “sanctuary” doesn’t guarantee that the animals are not abused, as one PETA Foundation staffer found out.

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