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The Cute Puppy Post in Your Feed Is Hiding Something Disturbing Read More »

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The Cute Puppy Post in Your Feed Is Hiding Something Disturbing

🐶 FOUR PAWS Investigation · Online Puppy Trade The Cute Puppy Post in Your Feed Is Hiding Something Disturbing Online puppy sales are booming across Europe. Social media platforms have become the primary marketplace for a trade that FOUR PAWS investigators found filled with illegal breeders, sick underage puppies, car park handovers, and dogs who

I Had No Idea People Ate Sharks. Then I Learned About Shark Finning, and It Got Worse. Read More »

Oceana, Animals & Wildlife Welfare, SAN News, Stop Wildlife Crime

I Had No Idea People Ate Sharks. Then I Learned About Shark Finning, and It Got Worse.

Millions of people eat shark meat without knowing it. Hundreds of thousands of sharks are killed annually for a soup ingredient that has no flavor. And somewhere right now, a restaurant is letting someone order a live shark killed at the table as a luxury experience. Here is the full picture. 🦈 SAN Animal Welfare

After Twenty Years in a Cage, a Moon Bear Finally Learns to Choose Freedom on Her Own Terms Read More »

Bears, Animals & Wildlife Welfare, Rescue Network, SAN News, Stop Wildlife Crime

After Twenty Years in a Cage, a Moon Bear Finally Learns to Choose Freedom on Her Own Terms

After Twenty Years in a Cage, a Moon Bear Finally Learns to Choose Freedom on Her Own Terms | Sustainable Action Now Sustainable Action Now Rescue Network Wildlife Rehabilitation After Twenty Years in a Cage, a Moon Bear Finally Learns to Choose Freedom on Her Own Terms Lelly spent two decades in total darkness on

In Beirut, a Bond the War Could Not Break Read More »

Rescue Network, Animals & Wildlife Welfare, SAN News

In Beirut, a Bond the War Could Not Break

In Beirut, a Bond the War Could Not Break | Sustainable Action Now Sustainable Action Now Rescue Network Animal Welfare In Beirut, a Bond the War Could Not Break A young man wakes from a coma after his home is bombed and asks about his cats before almost anything else. Weeks later, still recovering and

From a French Circus Wagon to Queen of the Enclosure: The Story of Lioness Nala Read More »

Lions, Animals & Wildlife Welfare, SAN News, Stop Wildlife Crime, Wildlife & Racing Extinction

From a French Circus Wagon to Queen of the Enclosure: The Story of Lioness Nala

A viral clip of a lioness posing in a homemade accessory made from enrichment toys is easy to scroll past as pure comic relief. Behind it sits a years long rescue that stretched across three countries and ended with Nala finally getting to simply be a lion. From a French Circus Wagon to Queen of

Thirteen Surgeries in One Day: Inside the Real Cost of Keeping a Rescue Running Read More »

Rescue Network, Animals & Wildlife Welfare, SAN News

Thirteen Surgeries in One Day: Inside the Real Cost of Keeping a Rescue Running

A pair of bonded dogs waiting for a joint adoption, a litter of polydactyl kittens pulled off a scorching rooftop, and a single Wednesday that produced thirteen emergency surgeries all point to the same quiet truth behind every viral rescue video: the moment the cameras stop rolling is when the real work, and the real

Alicia Silverstone Steps Into the Spotlight for the World’s Largest Day of Shelter Pet Awareness Read More »

Animals & Wildlife Welfare, SAN News

Alicia Silverstone Steps Into the Spotlight for the World’s Largest Day of Shelter Pet Awareness

Alicia Silverstone Steps Into the Spotlight for the World’s Largest Day of Shelter Pet Awareness | Sustainable Action Now Sustainable Action Now Animal Welfare Animal Welfare Alicia Silverstone Steps Into the Spotlight for the World’s Largest Day of Shelter Pet Awareness Nearly three decades after Cher Horowitz first taught audiences to say “as if,” Alicia

Twenty-Three Years in a Cage, Then the Sky Read More »

Bears, Animals & Wildlife Welfare, Rescue Network, SAN News, Stop Wildlife Crime

Twenty-Three Years in a Cage, Then the Sky

Wildlife Rescue  |  Feature Report Twenty-Three Years in a Cage, Then the Sky Inside the fight to free Vietnam’s last bile bears, and the rescued moon bear whose story is carrying the campaign’s final chapter. For twenty-three years, a seven-by-seven-centimeter gap in a cage wall was the only version of the outside world a bear

The Tanks Are Emptying: Inside the Global Collapse of the Dolphin Captivity Industry Read More »

Dolphin Outlook, Animals & Wildlife Welfare, SAN News, Wildlife & Racing Extinction

The Tanks Are Emptying: Inside the Global Collapse of the Dolphin Captivity Industry

Marine Conservation  |  Feature Report The Tanks Are Emptying: Inside the Global Collapse of the Dolphin Captivity Industry Bankruptcies, criminal investigations, and a wave of new laws are doing in a few years what decades of protest could not. The dolphin entertainment business is running out of road. Something has shifted in 2026. Not gradually,

The Leopard Who Was Labelled a “Problem Animal” Has Been Home for 20 Years Read More »

Animals & Wildlife Welfare, Lions, Rescue Network, SAN News, Stop Wildlife Crime, Tigers, Trophy Hunting

The Leopard Who Was Labelled a “Problem Animal” Has Been Home for 20 Years

Three stories from FOUR PAWS this week: a leopard who escaped death by luck, a big cat who destroyed a cardboard puzzle in record time, and a law so contradictory it has to be seen to be believed. 🐆 FOUR PAWS · This Week The Leopard Who Was Labelled a “Problem Animal” Has Been Home