Animal Rescue

Junya Okabe makes sculptures of polar bears that look just like the real thing for his project ANIMALS AS ART. Proceeds go towards wildlife protection.

Non-profit Clean Futures Fund is saving hundreds of stray dogs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine. The animal rescue project is in its third year.

Animals in Haryana, India, have been granted legal personhood. The animal protection law joins a growing number of animal rights improvements in India.

Do lobsters feel pain? A 100-year-old lobster has been given another shot at life thanks to vegan Katie Conklin, who rescued the marine animal.

A new Animal Planet series on vegan organization Barn Sanctuary will show viewers what life is like for farm animals saved from slaughter and abuse.

Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman has converted his 124-acre Mississippi ranch into a bee sanctuary to combat the insects’ dwindling population. The 81-year-old actor revealed in a 2014 interview on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” that he took up beekeeping in response to massive die-offs, known as colony collapse disorder (CCD), in recent years. […]

The UK will soon have its first animal protection law firm. Called Advocates for Animals, the firm was inspired by the public’s “ever-growing interest” in animal protection and the way we “use and consume” animals, a press release said. Every year in the UK, roughly one billion animals are farmed and slaughtered. Four million animals […]

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, is called GetPet and already attracts hundreds of new users daily, according to U.S. News & World Report. “It is […]