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A long-fought-for piece of legislation in Rhode Island to protect hens abused for eggs is now law.
Animal rights advocates announced a lawsuit against the federal government in a bid to make a Montana mustang population the first group of wild horses to be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
The fight to protect grizzly bears cleared a hurdle this week, when a federal court gave the green light to a lawsuit challenging the premature delisting of Yellowstone-area grizzlies.
Some members, beholden to special interests, are attempting to reopen horse slaughter plants in the United States, authorize the killing of thousands of healthy wild horses and burros, strip Endangered Species Act protections for Great Lakes wolves, and repeal a rule to prevent cruel and unjustified methods of killing grizzlies and wolf pups on National Park Service lands in Alaska.
The HSUS, the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife filed a legal complaint against the federal government for failing to protect North Atlantic right whales from painful and deadly entanglement in fishing gear.
This month, snowy owls were listed as vulnerable — one step away from endangered — by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. They’re protected in the U.S. under the Migratory Bird Act.
Some northern Wisconsin legislators are proposing a bill that would end the state’s efforts to manage wolves and force police to ignore wolf killings, unless the federal government removes the animals from the endangered species list.
This administration has shown again and again that it values the rights of racists, of sexists, of anti-LGBTQ people and of conservative Christians over the lives of LGBTQ people, people of color, people with disabilities, women and religious minorities including Muslim and Jewish people.
Federal civil rights law does not protect transgender people from discrimination at work, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a memo released on Oct. 5 that rescinds guidance issued under the Obama administration.
It’s shameful and unconscionable for an Attorney General to reverse course in protecting some of our most vulnerable citizens.
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