CWI submitted comments calling for stronger protection for South Africa’s leopards and retention of the U.S. Roadless Rule to safeguard wildlife habitat.

Krissy, Jeanie, and Paige are still being used for rides. Tell Minnesota Renaissance Festival organizers to end the rides and make future festivals elephant-free.

Stella and Kitty are still touring at about 23. Tell Tulsa State Fair to cancel Sea Lion Splash and end traveling marine-mammal acts.

Tell Museum of the Southwest to cancel its SeptemberFest elephant attraction and commit to keeping future events elephant-free.

Emily is 61 and has spent more than a year alone at Buttonwood Park Zoo. Help move her to an accredited elephant sanctuary.

Ask Kerbela Shrine to commit that future Shrine circuses will never again use elephants. Take action for elephant-free entertainment.

After years of uncertainty, Asha has arrived at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. Her journey offers hope—and reminds us that four other elephants are still waiting for their chance at sanctuary.

Loomis Bros. Circus is preparing for a three-city Florida run—and its advertising prominently features an elephant. That elephant is expected to be Okha, the 56-year-old Asian elephant and the only elephant currently known to be traveling with Loomis. Speak out!

Today is National Guinea Pig Appreciation Day, but for thousands of guinea pigs across the country, there is little to celebrate. Every year, guinea pigs are bred in commercial breeding facilities, shipped to pet stores, and sold as impulse purchases. Many families are never told how much care these intelligent, social animals truly require. As a result, rescues and shelters are overwhelmed with guinea pigs who have been abandoned, surrendered, or neglected. PetSmart has made

After nearly four decades in a circus, Julie — Portugal’s last circus elephant — has been retired to Pangea Elephant Sanctuary in the country’s Alentejo region.