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Cruelty exposed in Ohio
Over 300 animals found suffering in Ohio on a fur and urine farm—trapped in painful wire cages, missing limbs, hungry. Our Animal Rescue Team came to the rescue of these innocent animals, and we are working to end this cruel industry. Help these animals get the care they need and support our lifesaving work.
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Issues we work on
We make bold progress for all animals by working together on the biggest problems—no matter where they are or how deeply entrenched. We focus on the greatest needs, intent on making the biggest impact.
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Access to care for pets
The deep connection between people and pets is universal, but access to animal care resources is not. In truly humane communities, everyone can obtain what they need for the animals in their lives.
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Animal cruelty
Our toughest fights work to address the systemic cruelties embedded in factory farming, animal research and other industries that impact millions of animals.
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Whether on land or in the water, the Animal Rescue Team responds to help animals in need.
Animal rescue and response
Local emergency response departments, humane societies and animal shelters often don’t have the resources to help animal victims of disasters and large-scale cruelty cases. That’s where we come in.
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More than 60,000 dogs are used in animal tests every year in the United States.
Animals in research
Scientific progress and product safety do not need to come at the cost of animal suffering. We are working to speed up the transition from harmful animal experiments to modern, animal-free methods.
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Dog and cat welfare
Every day around the world, millions of dogs and cats face neglect and cruelty. From rescues to policy reforms, Humane World for Animals works to protect pets and support people in caring for them.
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Lonely and scared, forced to fight.
Ending animal fighting
No animal should have to suffer the barbaric practices of dogfighting and cockfighting. Humane World for Animals is working to end this cruelty in all its forms.
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Dogs caught up in the dog meat trade in Indonesia.
Ending the dog and cat meat trade
Across Asia, millions of dogs and cats are kept in terrible conditions and then killed for their meat. We are still fighting to end this brutality in Indonesia, China, Viet Nam and India.
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Farmed animal welfare
Industrial farms cause animal suffering on an unimaginable scale. We work to improve animal welfare on farms, reducing extreme confinement, and to promote a more plant-forward global food system.
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Helping captive wildlife
Wild animals belong in their natural habitats, not kept in roadside zoos and circuses for our entertainment. With your help, we’re working to end this cruelty.
Protecting equines
Equines are companions and partners, and it's our responsibility to act as their guardians. Unfortunately, cruelty persists. Humane World for Animals tackles the root causes of this cruelty to end it.
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Stopping puppy mills
It's time to end the cruel treatment of dogs in mass breeding operations. We're fighting to stop puppy mills on all possible levels.
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A lion in the wild.
Wildlife protection
Stand with Humane World for Animals to put an end to the senseless killing and exploitation of wildlife.
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What We Do
Bold work, global mission
For more than 70 years, Humane World for Animals — previously called the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International — has been a leader of the animal protection movement.
Discover what we're doing to stop animal cruelty and suffering for good.
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A Humane World Blog
"A Humane World" is the official blog of Humane World for Animals—a first-hand account of our ongoing efforts to protect animals, as told by our president and CEO,Kitty Block.
Humane World Blog
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Al, a 51-year-old chimpanzee previously used in biomedical research, sees his new sanctuary home for the first time.
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Remaining chimps from New Mexico laboratory are starting to arrive at Chimp Haven
Pictured above: Al, a 51-year-old chimpanzee previously used in biomedical research, sees his new sanctuary home for the first time. Just recently, Al’s life changed forever. The 51-year-old
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Stopping puppy mills
Closed: Petland store that sold terribly sick puppy for thousands of dollars
“I am paying $7,000 for ashes.” This is what a heartbroken woman from Texas told our team in December 2022 about a puppy she’d purchased at a Petland store in Houston the year before. Even though
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Mother black bear nursing two cubs of the year.
Wildlife protection
A black bear hunt looms in Florida—but there is still time to stop it
A small but vocal group of trophy hunters in Florida is calling for a bear trophy hunt, and we are determined to prevent it. The last bear hunt held in the state was in 2015: Hunters killed 304 bears
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