On the night of July 14, 2026, the State of Florida executed Dennis Sochor. He was 74 years old. He was a United States Army veteran. He had spent forty years on death row, which means he had spent the substantial majority of his adult life inside Florida State Prison, waiting to find out whether […]
Animals Lose Everything in a Laboratory. The Science Agrees It’s Time to End This. Read More »
Animals & Wildlife Welfare, SAN NewsWhen an animal enters a research laboratory, everything that defined its existence before that moment is taken away. The family it was part of — or the family it would have had, if it had not been bred into captivity specifically for this purpose. The freedom to move, to choose, to follow its instincts, to
The Tiny House Sanctuary Saving the Deep South’s Most Forgotten Animals Read More »
Rescue Network, Animals & Wildlife Welfare, SAN NewsMost people who think about animal rescue in the United States picture a shelter — rows of kennels, concrete floors, chain-link gates, the particular institutional smell that no amount of cleaning fully eliminates. They picture animals in individual enclosures, waiting in isolation for a visitor who may or may not come, in a setting that
From Under a Shed to the Edge of the Wild: The Fox Cubs Are Ready to Go Home Read More »
SAN News, Rescue NetworkThe last time most people following the Wildlife Aid Foundation’s work heard about these fox cubs, they were tiny. Newborn-fragile, eyes barely open, discovered huddled beneath a garden shed after their mother had died — a litter of orphaned cubs who had no way of surviving without immediate human intervention and no way of knowing
Today is a birthday worth celebrating — and not simply because birthdays are worth celebrating in general, but because the fact that Roman, Vincent, Dolf, Ellie, and Geena are alive, together, healthy, and marking their seventh year under the South African sun at LIONSROCK Big Cat Sanctuary is the outcome of a rescue effort that,
In the early morning hours of May 20, 2025, while Los Angeles was still dark, zoo staff loaded two Asian elephants into transport containers and drove them out of the city before anyone could stop it. Billy, a 40-year-old male who had lived at the Los Angeles Zoo since arriving from Malaysia as a four-year-old
There is a particular quality to late June in the African bush that makes the final days of the month some of the most compelling viewing of the year on SafariLIVE. The winter dry season is well underway across the Sabi Sand Game Reserve in South Africa, and what that means for wildlife is something
The Vegan Chocolate Bark That Will Ruin Every Other Chocolate Dessert for You Read More »
Recipes, SAN NewsThere is a category of recipe that sounds simple enough to be skeptical of and turns out to be the thing you make every time you need to bring something to a gathering, every time you want a dessert that requires almost no effort and produces results that feel genuinely impressive, and every time you
Two things happened in the same week that together capture everything complicated and urgent about the state of capital punishment in America in 2026. In Columbus, Ohio, Republican Governor Mike DeWine stood before reporters, brought out charts and graphs, and announced that he now believes the death penalty should be abolished. He is 79 years
Some weeks in animal rescue produce stories that define why this work matters in ways that no policy paper or advocacy statement can fully capture. This is one of those weeks. From the English countryside, where Wildlife Aid’s team descended into a ten-foot pit to pull a fox cub from what could have been his