View this site at: www.peta.org
PETA, with more than a million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals, PETA operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns."
Action for Animals
View this site at: www.afa-online.org/
AFA operates under the simple principle that animals do not exist for humans to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. We promote a Vegan lifestyle. AFA strives to end animal suffering through educational outreach, demonstrations, and media involvement."
All-creatures.org: Working for a Peaceable Kingdom for Humans, Animals, and the Environment
View this site at: www.all-creatures.org/
A wealth of articles and photographs on animal rights and welfare issues, articles connecting Christian and Jewish faiths with these issues and healthy vegetarian recipes. Do not miss this website!"
Animal Aid
View this site at: www.animalaid.org.uk/
Animal Aid is an UK based organization working through peaceful means, for an end to all animal cruelty."
Animal Links
View this site at: www.animalinks.net
Links to most animal rights and animal protection organizations
Animal Place
View this site at: www.animalplace.org
This California based animal sanctuary and education centre promotes veganism and carries out campaigns to meets its humane goals.
Animal Protection Institute
View this site at: www.api4animals.org/
The Animal Protection Institute (API) is a US based animal advocacy organization. API uses powerful tools including legislation, public education, litigation, and grassroots networking. API's primary campaign areas currently include animals used in entertainment, captive exotic animals, companion animals, compassionate consumerism, farmed animals, and wildlife protection."
Animals & Society
View this site at: www.animalsandsociety.org/
The Animals and Society Institute is a nonprofit, independent research and educational organization that advances the status of animals in public policy, and promotes the study of human-animal relationships. The ASI seeks to advance institutional change for animals by helping to establish the moral and legal rights fundamental to a just, compassionate and peaceful society.
The ASI is the result of the 2005 merger of two well-respected organizations: the Society and Animals Forum (formerly Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, run by Kenneth Shapiro, Ph.D.), and the Institute for Animals and Society (previously known as the Animal Rights Network, publisher of The Animals’ Agenda magazine, and led by Kim W. Stallwood). Ken Shapiro and Kim Stallwood are now the co-executive directors of the Animals and Society Institute, which has its main office in Baltimore, Maryland.
The ASI will soon combine the web sites from its two component organizations."
The Animals Voice
View this site at: www.animalsvoice.com
The Animals Voice is the premiere online resource for helping animals. An award-winning, independent, networking source of recent media coverage, timely information, and an incalculable volume of resources for animals and their defenders. Featuring the latest animal rights news, multimedia, calendar, victories, thought-provoking and inspirational editorial, graphic and compelling photography, and in-depth investigative reports. "
Animal Welfare Advocacy
View this site at: www.animalwelfareadvocacy.org/
Animal Welfare Advocacy’s is a US based organization whose mission is to alleviate animal suffering and promote the well being of animals through the legislative and political advocacy process.
The Animal Welfare Institute
View this site at: www.awionline.org/
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1951 to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans.
The Animal Welfare Trust
View this site at: www.animalwelfaretrust.org
Founded in January of 2001, ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST is devoted to promoting the well being of the animal community. They believe animals have rights to experience a life of respect, free from unnecessary suffering."
The Culture and Animals Foundation
View this site at: www.cultureandanimals.org
The Culture and Animals foundation is a US based cultural organization committed to fostering the growth of intellectual and artistic endeavors united by a positive concern for animals.
Humane Society International Asia
View this site at: www.hsiasia.org
Humane Society of the United States
View this site at: www.hsus.org/
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has worked since 1954 to promote the protection of all animals. With nearly ten million members and constituents, The HSUS is United State’s largest and most powerful animal protection organization, fighting animal cruelty and abuse in all of its forms. HSUS works to reduce suffering and to create meaningful social change for animals by advocating for public policies to protect animals, investigating cruelty and working to enforce existing laws, educating the public about the issues, and conducting hands-on programs, such as assisting animals when disasters strike. "
International fund for animal welfare
View this site at: www.ifaw.org
The International Fund for Animal Welfare works to improve animal welfare, prevent animal cruelty and abuse, protect wildlife and provide animal rescue around the world. From stopping the elephant ivory trade, to ending the Canadian seal hunt and saving the whales from extinction, IFAW works to create solutions that benefit both animals and people."
The Moral Status of Animals
View this site at: www.ethics.sandiego.edu/Applied/Animals/index.asp
Tom Regan’s animal rights website
View this site at: www.tomregan-animalrights.com
Tom Regan, is the author of ‘Empty Cages, Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights’. This is one of the best introductions to animal rights ever written. This website provides a host of links to sites with animal rights information."
IN Defense of Animals
View this site at: www.idausa.org
In Defense of Animals is an international animal protection organization dedicated to ending the exploitation and abuse of animals by raising the status of animals beyond that of mere property, and by defending their rights, welfare and habitat. IDA's efforts include educational events, cruelty investigations, boycotts, grassroots activism, and hands-on rescue through our sanctuaries in Mississippi and Cameroon, Africa.
