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Torturing bulls is the crime, not speaking out against it 🗣️❌🐂 A @PETAUK activist and PETA Germany activist have been ARRESTED in Monaco after stepping in front of the popemobile to urge Pope Leo XIV to cut the Catholic Church’s ties to bullfighting. Urge Pope Leo XIV to cut ties with bullfighting: peta.vg/46tf

Oil men: “Wind energy isn’t reliable enough.” The wind:

#California residents: Tell Del Mar Fairgrounds to stop hosting #reptile expos, & instead support adoption events for small animals. These expos treat animals as products while fueling suffering, biodiversity loss, & public health risks. #AnimalWelfare ✍️ bit.ly/4rXGQec

This was her first time outside. Her first time feeling something soft. Her first time seeing the sun. And her first time being held and hugged and loved. This is what every dog at Ridglan deserves. We gave this to 22 desperate pups. Now we're going back for the rest.

NC brothers Jerry and Steve Carroll were losing money on their hog farm, so they pivoted to cultivating and selling culinary and medicinal mushrooms at farmer’s markets, through produce box deliveries and foodservice providers. Their business is currently thriving!🍄🌱 #GoVegan

Yo! Come hang out with me and Moby this Saturday as we discuss how we are going to get EVERY SINGLE DOG AT RIDGLAN OUT OF A CAGE!

Every year, wild #American bison living in #YellowstoneNationalPark are captured and slaughtered. These iconic #animals deserve to roam freely. It’s time to end the annual #bison slaughter and protect them. Act now: bit.ly/3PwgiTW Pls RT & support bit.ly/4lSluxq

The official vote is in from W Pacific Fishery Council. Every single Pacific National Monument will be opened to commercial fishing. Longlines in Papahānaumokuākea. All fishing gear in Rose Atoll. The entire Marianas Trench reserve gone. ~80% of US protected waters abolished.

The most desperate elephant in the world isn’t giving up. After decades in the circus and four escape attempts, she’s still fighting! Take a moment from scrolling and fight for her too 📲

ALERT: Construction survey stakes just placed in the ground at popular river access point in Big Bend Ranch State Park. Local CBP officials say wall plans here are off, but the feds awarded a $1.2B contract & waived all laws to rush construction. Video from local outfitter:

The Southwest is running out of water, and 80% of Arizona's water goes to agriculture...not homes. Arizona ships a MILLION homes worth of water (via alfalfa alone) to China, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE every year. The West needs many different solutions, but this madness must end

Good news (from last week): a federal judge rejected the DOJ's lawsuit that tried to dismantle California's cage-free law nationalhogfarmer.com/livestock-mana…

I am devastated to share the news that one of my heroes — and a woman who has had an enormous impact on wildlife conservation — Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has died. She was 79. I feel so grateful that I had the honor of spending time with her. Over the years, I have connected with so many of you over my love of orangutans (and elephants and mountain gorillas, of course); Dr. Biruté gets all the credit. Orangutans would likely be extinct were it not for Dr. Biruté’s pioneering and exhaustive work over the last six decades. Dr. Biruté was one of three women handpicked and mentored by legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey to transform our understanding of the great apes. Jane Goodall studied chimpanzees, Dian Fossey studied gorillas, and Dr. Biruté dedicated her life to orangutans, and together they revolutionized primatology and the case for great ape intelligence, emotional depth, and conservation. While Jane Goodall proved that chimpanzees use tools, form complex social bonds, and possess a capacity for empathy once thought uniquely human, Dr. Biruté proved that orangutans are slow-breeding, highly intelligent, and extremely vulnerable. Dr. Biruté built the conservation model to try to save orangutans and dedicated her life to protecting them. Dr. Biruté is credited with conducting the longest-running longitudinal study by one principal investigator of any wild mammal in the world. She was the first to document the long orangutan birth interval, which averaged 7.7 years, and recorded over 400 types of food consumed by orangutans. Dr. Biruté’s research that fundamentally reshaped how scientists understood orangutans. Before her field studies, the orangutan was the least understood of the great apes. The orangutan population as it exists today, as fragile as it is, would not exist without her. Many conservationists go as far as saying the orangutan, our cousin, would likely be extinct or close to extinct were it not for Dr. Biruté’s discoveries and her sacrifice. Dr. Biruté took on palm oil conglomerates, illegal loggers, poachers, and gold miners. She did so often at great personal risk, including death threats and kidnapping, She remained in Borneo for over 40 years as an outspoken advocate for orangutans and the preservation of their rainforest habitat. In 1986, she founded Orangutan Foundation International, with sister organizations established in Australia, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom. We owe so much to Dr. Biruté and her incredible legacy.

PSA: We need your help to save 2,000+ dogs.

The direct correlation between cutting down forests to farm cows and global heating looks like this:

She's not wrong. A potato grown with chemicals is called a potato but a potato grown without chemicals is called an organic potato. Why is the burden of proof on the one not using poison? Instead of an organic label, we need a chemical label. source: slottetmicrofarm

On April 27, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could determine whether #pesticide corporations like #Bayer can evade accountability for the harm caused by their products. We're stepping into the ring in this case, and will also be there rallying with thepeoplevspoison.org

Victory 🐭🎉 Ventura, CA, just became the LARGEST CITY IN THE U.S. to BAN GLUE TRAPS! This is a HUGE win for mice, rats, and other animals who suffer because of these cruel devices.

Four People Charged with Felony Grand Theft for Rescuing Sick Goats from Whole Foods-Supplying Goat Dairy Press Release: docs.google.com/document/d/1fF…

I was arrested last week for rescuing 22 dogs from animal experimentation facility Ridglan Farms. I just called them to tell them we’re coming back to rescue them all despite their legal threats. Here’s why. #SaveTheDogs #RightToRescue