In Defense of Animals
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Fighting for animals, people and the planet through bold campaigns, rescue and sanctuary.
About In Defense of Animals
In Defense of Animals is a long-established advocacy organisation that fights for animals through hard-hitting campaigns, direct rescue and sanctuary care.
Animals are exploited in countless ways, confined in zoos and circuses, used in laboratory testing, hunted, farmed and killed for fur. In Defense of Animals confronts this on every front, arguing that animals deserve not only rescue but rights, and a world that no longer treats them as resources.
Campaigning for animals, people and the environment since 1983, the organisation pairs advocacy with practical help. It runs hard-hitting campaigns to free animals from captivity and end cruelty, and backs that work with direct rescue and long-term sanctuary care for those who have nowhere else to go.
Its efforts span dozens of active campaigns covering elephants, wild animals, farmed animals, entertainment exploitation and the fur trade, alongside hands-on projects such as Hope Animal Sanctuary, Freedom Farms for rescued cows, and Jindo Love Rescue, which saves dogs from the meat trade. Based in the United States, its reach extends to animal welfare causes around the world.
Over four decades the organisation reports hundreds of victories, freeing animals from zoos and laboratories and standing against hunters and circuses. This matters because changing the systems that harm animals protects far more lives than rescue alone. Support fuels both the campaigning and the care behind it.
Elephants & Zoo Reform
Pressing zoos to retire elephants and rethink how captive animals are kept.
Animals in Entertainment
Campaigning against the use of animals in circuses, rodeos and similar spectacles.
Hope Animal Sanctuary
A working refuge that rescues and cares for animals in need.
Jindo Love Rescue
Saving dogs from the meat trade and finding them safe new homes.
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