animal rescue

Animal welfare charity Animals Lebanon is reuniting animals and their owners following the explosion in Beirut. The explosion, which took place at the Beirut port warehouse last Tuesday, left more than 200 people dead and...

Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix didn't just talk about the atrocities of factory farming during his Oscars speech. Just a few hours later, the "Joker" star rescued a cow and her calf from those...

Meghan Markle has spoken out about the "life-changing joy" that comes from shelter pet adoption and has urged people to support animal welfare charity, Mayhew. The Duchess of Sussex has been an animal lover for...

Non-profit organization Clean Futures Fund (CFF) is saving hundreds of dogs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. In 1986, the Unit 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded, sending radioactive materials into...

A 100-year-old, 23-pound lobster has been given another shot at life thanks to vegan Katie Conklin, who rescued the marine animal. The lobster, named King Louie, was caught by Rodney MacDonald in the Bay of...

Get ready to swipe right. A group of animal lovers in Lithuania have created a Tinder-style app intended to match dogs in animal shelters with their ideal pet parent. The app, which launched in January,...

Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s largest farm animal protection organization, comes from humble beginnings. It was founded in 1986 by activist and author Gene Baur who was motivated to take action after investigating factory farms,...

Animal rights activists in South Korea and across the globe are especially thankful this Thanksgiving eve as Taepyeong, the largest dog meat slaughterhouse in South Korea, was shuttered by local authorities. The move comes after...

Vegan celebrity Zac Efron is urging his 36.5 million Instagram followers to donate to farm animal rescue efforts in the wake of California's Woolsey and Hill fires. Taking to his Instagram story, Efron wrote: "Swipe up to...

Tony Alsup, a trucker from Greenback, Tennesee, recently saved more than 60 animals from the floods of Hurricane Florence in his portable Emergency Animal Rescue Shelter, aka Noah's Ark, aka a school bus, and...

New Jersey's Freedom Farm Animal Rescue has secured a new permanent location for its animals. Due to support from a Go Fund Me campaign and Peace 4 Animals, the animal rescue has obtained forty-three acres of farmland in...

A major billboard campaign launched throughout New York City this week by the Catskill Animal Sanctuary, includes a giant billboard in the heart of Times Square, encouraging people to go vegan this holiday season...

When the planet throws her rage our way, it affects us all - humans suffer, and so do animals. As Hurricane Irma brings her destructive force through the West, animals as well as humans are...