Deep Roots: Animal Rights Blog

The scene is apocalyptic. Fires sweeping across the surface of the ocean. Gulls and turtles entombed in oil slicks. Oil-soaked pelicans and terns washed up on shorelines–tragic monuments to human folly and the destruction of a delicate balance. And always that stinging smell of oil that seeps into every pore and entangles sea grasses, oozes [...]

From HSUS: (Sept. 23, 2008) – The Humane Society of the United States applauds U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) for introducing legislation today to combat “wildlife penning”— fenced enclosures where wild animals are ripped apart by packs of dogs in competitive animal fights. The Wildlife Penning Prohibition Act of 2008, H.R. 6988, would amend the [...]

It is not exactly the victory we would hope for, a year-round ban on live-caught coyotes, but earlier this month, the Indiana Natural Resources Commission (NRC) adopted a new rule change prohibiting the sale of live coyotes caught outside the hunting and trapping season, which runs from October 15 to March 15. Although not a [...]