Group Category: Animals

Mercy For Animals envisions a world where animals are respected, protected, and free to pursue their own interests. It exists to end one…

Founded in 2006, Animal Equality is an award-winning, international animal protection organization dedicated to defending animals through public education, creative campaigns, and investigations.…

Puppies Behind Bars trains prison inmates to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and for first responders, as well as explosive-detection canines for law enforcement. The dogs live in prison with their inmate puppy-raisers from the age of 8 weeks to 28 months. As the puppies mature into well-loved, well-behaved working dogs, their raisers learn what it means to give back to society.

Save the Chimps (STC), located in Florida, is the largest privately funded chimpanzee sanctuary in the world. Cofounded by renowned primatologist Dr. Carole Noon and founder and president of the Arcus Foundation, Jon Stryker, STC’s mission is to provide sanctuary and exemplary care to chimpanzees in need.

A 2018 grant from the Cultures of Resistance Network supported general operating expenses for Save the Chimps.

Website: www.savethechimps.org

Hutan – Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Programme is a grassroots organization that has been working for wildlife and habitat conservation in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo since 1998. Hutan has developed a holistic approach, combining scientific research, wildlife and habitat protection, policy work, capacity-building, and environmental education, as well as community outreach and development.

Founded in 1986, Farm Sanctuary works to change how society views and treats farm animals through rescue, education, and advocacy. The organization provides lifelong care for animals rescued from abuse at its three sanctuary locations in New York and California. It also promotes compassionate vegan living and advocates for legal and policy reforms.

Virunga National Park is Africa’s oldest national park and a World Heritage site. It is home to all of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s critically endangered mountain gorillas, as well as important populations of chimpanzees, elephants, and other wildlife. Virunga has been at the center of the DRC’s civil wars for decades, threatened by armed militias and foreign corporate interests intent on destroying the park for profit. The ongoing conflict decimated the mountain gorilla population and caused serious economic damage to the park’s surrounding communities.

Founded in 1903, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) has been working for more than a century to pioneer innovative approaches that make a lasting impact on global biodiversity. FFI’s vision is a sustainable future for the planet, where biodiversity is effectively conserved by the people who live closest to it and supported by the global community. Its mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science, and take human needs into account.

The Donkey Sanctuary was founded in 1969 by Dr. Elisabeth Svendsen, MBE, who dedicated her life to championing donkeys. The Donkey Sanctuary is an international animal welfare charity that aims to protect and promote the welfare of donkeys and mules worldwide. It works in thirty-eight countries worldwide through major projects and collaborations and has given more than 18,800 donkeys and mules a home since it was founded.

The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, founded by Dian Fossey in 1978, is dedicated to the conservation and protection of gorillas and their habitats in Africa. The Fund is committed to promoting continued research on the gorillas and their threatened ecosystems as well as to providing education about their relevance to the world in which we live. In collaboration with government agencies and other international partners, the Fund also provides assistance to local communities through education and health initiatives.