The International Wildlife Coalition (IWC) was established by a small group of individuals who came from a variety of environmental and animal rights organizations in 1984. Like many NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) that arose in the 1970s and...

Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the basic interests of non-human animals — for example, the interest in avoiding suffering — should be afforded the same consideration as the basic interests of human beings.[2] Animal...

Animal rights campaigners fighting a proposal to shoot more than 3,000 kangaroos outside the capital claimed a partial victory Thursday when an official revealed that alternatives on dealing with the burgeoning population were also being considered.The Defense Department plans to hire professional shooters to cull...

On a sunny summer day, Chai the elephant browses on grass and branches in the one-acre (0.4-hectare) elephant exhibit at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. Children lean over the metal barriers, trying to reach the charismatic creature.In the nearby elephant barn, Watoto stretches her trunk to...

Animal rights activists claimed to have sabotaged health care products in Britain and France in a long-running, and often violent, campaign against an animal-testing firm, police said Friday.Britain's Animal Rights Militia said it had contaminated products made by the Swiss-based pharmaceuticals manufacturer Novartis AG, targeting...

Activists claimed to have sabotaged health care products in Britain and France in a long-running and often violent campaign against an animal-testing firm, police said Friday.A British group called Animal Rights Militia said it had contaminated products made by the Swiss-based pharmaceuticals company Novartis AG...

Uses different normative approaches to philosophy to examine how humans treat animals and the ethics of this treatment.

Examples of how people can be cruel to animals.