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The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is an American nonprofit organization that focuses on animal welfare and opposes animal-related cruelties of national scope. It uses strategies that are beyond the abilities of local organizations. [ 3 ] It works on issues including pets, wildlife, farm animals, horses and other equines, and ...
Animal welfare organizations are concerned with the health, safety and psychological wellness of individual animals. These organizations include animal rescue groups and wildlife rehabilitation centers, which care for animals in distress and sanctuaries , where animals are brought to live and be protected for the rest of their lives.
Best Friends Animal Society. Best Friends Animal Society, (BFAS) founded in its present form in 1993, [1] is an American nonprofit 501 (c) (3) animal welfare organization based in Kanab, Utah with satellite offices in Atlanta, Georgia, Bentonville, Arkansas, Houston, Texas, Los Angeles, California, New York City, and Salt Lake City, Utah. [8]
The Anti-Cruelty Society is an animal welfare organization and animal shelter in the River North neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The Anti-Cruelty Society (SPCA of Illinois) is a private, not-for-profit humane society that does not receive government assistance. It is one of the largest such organizations in the United States.
Three local nonprofits will provide hunger relief and aid animal welfare through $625,000 in grants from the Coastal Bend Community Foundation.
Concern for animal welfare resurges in the 1950s, resulting in the federal Humane Slaughter Act [10] and the Animal Welfare Act. [11] 1966-2016: Intensive animal agriculture continues to grow, with the number of land animals slaughtered for food in the U.S. growing from 2.4 billion in 1965 to 9.2 billion in 2015. [12]
An airplane with 88 dogs and 44 cats on board arrives at the Waukesha County Airport in Waukesha on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. The animals came to Wisconsin from shelters in South Carolina affected ...
Members of the work group tasked with determining the future of the more than 150 animal mounts once displayed in the Great Plains Zoo's Delbridge Museum said Friday they'd like to hear from ...