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Breaking: After a decade of our campaign, South Korean government calls for banning dog meat industry by 2027

For nearly a decade, Humane Society International has advanced a game-changing campaign in South Korea to shine a light on...

Hidden camera exposes sick and wounded puppies at Petland store in Michigan

Our investigator found puppies suffering from hacking coughs, nasal discharge or open wounds at a Petland store in Novi...

Nearly 500 dogs and cats have been saved from Horrible Hundred breeders this year

Since we started publishing our Horrible Hundred reports about puppy and kitten mills across the U.S. in 2013 almost 250 of...

Wildlife protection
Helping communities and animals in Kenya survive drought

After years of drought, the communities of Garissa, Kenya, struggle to find the basic building block of life: water. Humane...

Wildlife protection
Brazen attacks on Endangered Species Act emerge in US House funding bill

Just a few weeks short of the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act’s passage, opponents in the U.S. Congress have...

Dozens of puppies and dogs saved from slaughter after business owner has a change of heart

For the past seven years, Mr. Hung has been in the dog meat business in Viet Nam. He estimates that in that time, he has...

Helping animals and their families after Hurricane Otis devastates Acapulco

Update 11/24/2023: Our team in Mexico wrapped up three weeks of disaster response work, helping more than 1,300 animals in...

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Providing lifelong care to Liberia’s ex-laboratory chimpanzees isn’t a job, it’s a calling

Eight years ago, dozens of chimps already traumatized by their use as laboratory test subjects found themselves abandoned on...

Lemurs rescued from shuttered zoo leap when they see their new home

Over the years at the only zoo in Puerto Rico, hurricanes, COVID, damaged infrastructure and alleged underfunding had taken a...