Presenting Advocacy for Animals, a blog focused primarily on animal rights, wildlife conservation, environmental health and safety, and the legal and cultural issues related to these topics. This blog is a source of information and a call to action. It is meant to be a provocation and a stimulus to thought regarding humanity’s relationship with nonhuman animals.
Dr. David Sims, author of The Conservation article below, analyzed a recent study in Nature that examined historical trends in shark and ray abundances in the deep oceans. The Nature study…
The ivory trade has continued for hundreds of years. The recovery of the Bom Jesus, a Portuguese trading ship that sunk off…
The coronavirus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, has infected minks in Denmark, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, and in several U.S. states, which has led to the deaths of these mammals from…
We present Advocacy for Animals as a source of information, a call to action, and a stimulus to thought regarding humanity’s relationship with nonhuman animals. We support worldwide efforts to ensure the humane treatment of animals, to promote their well-being and conservation, to develop our scientific understanding of their nature, and to protect and restore their habitats and the natural environment at large.
We will focus primarily on animal rights, wildlife conservation, environmental health and safety, and the legal and cultural issues related to these topics. The views expressed on Advocacy for Animals by its editorial staff and contributors are not necessarily those of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.