This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s hard not to pay attention to the rise of alternative meat and dairy products after witnessing the market response to Beyond Meat’s 2019 initial public offering, which saw a 163…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A pig’s ideal temperature is 65 degrees Fahrenheit. So on a 90-degree day in the middle of July, Phil Borgic keeps a close eye on his herd. “A pig can’t sweat,”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A Q&A with the Filmmaker and Animal Grantmakers Member: The Botstiber Institute of Wildlife Fertility Control Q: What is the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control? The Botstiber Institute for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What is the most common form of human infrastructure in the world? It may well be the fence. Recent estimates suggest that the total length of all fencing around the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act expands on a 2010 law protecting animals subjected to “crush videos,” where small animals are seen crushed to death by faceless women…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The La Sal Mountains rise like ungainly totems above the red rock desert outside Moab, Utah. From afar the forested slopes and barren, rock-strewn peaks have none of the splendor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Three-quarters of new and emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in wildlife. COVID-19, SARS and Ebola all started this way. The COVID-19 global pandemic has drawn new attention to how…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late 2017, photographer Matthijs Kuijpers spent two days driving into the mountains in Suriname–armed with guns, because of the presence of illegal gold mining in the area–in search of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of illegal wildlife trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional medicine black markets in China, and wild meat restaurants in Vietnam.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every year, up to 30,000 elephants and thousands of rhinos are poached throughout Africa for their tusks and horns. This ongoing slaughter has pushed big game animal populations to dangerous lows, and although countries…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a sprawling wildlife preserve in Zimbabwe larger than Grand Canyon National Park, some of the rhinos roaming the park have sensors embedded in their horns. Three times a day,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As advocates, we try to answer the question of how we can do the most good for farm animals. I think one of the most powerful forms of evidence we…