List of animal rights groups
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Animal rights organizations
- Abolitionist Approach
- AnimaNaturalisAnimaNaturalisAnimaNaturalis is an international non profit animal rights organization whose activism is oriented towards animal liberation. It was founded on March 2003...
- Animal AidAnimal AidAnimal Aid, founded in 1977, is a British animal rights organisation. The group campaigns peacefully against all forms of animal abuse and promotes a cruelty-free lifestyle. It also investigates and exposes animal cruelty....
(UK) - Animal Campaigns (UK)
- Animal Defense LeagueAnimal Defense LeagueThe Animal Defense League is an internationally active grassroots animal rights organization fighting to put an end to animal exploitation and abuse...
- Animal Defence Society
- Animal EqualityAnimal EqualityAnimal Equality .-Biography:Igualdad Animal is an international non-profit animal rights organization whose purpose is "to achieve equal consideration and respect for animals, and the abolition of animal slavery". This statement takes to question speciesism, the view that animals have the same...
- Animal Freedom
- Animal Legal Defense FundAnimal Legal Defense FundThe Animal Legal Defense Fund is an American non-profit law organization that aims to protect the rights and advance the interests of animals through the legal system. It was founded in 1979 by attorneys active in shaping the emerging field of animal law. The ALDF has campaigned for stronger...
- Animal Liberation Brigade (ALB)
- Animal Liberation LeaguesAnimal Liberation LeaguesAnimal Liberation Leagues were a network of animal rights organizations active in the UK in the 1980s. Whereas the Animal Liberation Front specialized in clandestine activity, mainly masked, at night, and involving small numbers of people, the Animal Liberation Leagues consisted of coordinated...
- Animal Liberation Press OfficeAnimal Liberation Press OfficeAnimal Liberation Press Offices relay anonymous communiques, photos and videos to the media about direct action undertaken by the Animal Liberation Front , Animal Rights Militia , Animal Liberation Brigade, Justice Department, and other leaderless resistance within the animal liberation movement...
- The Animal A.R.K.
- Animal Rights UK
- Animal Rights Party USA
- Beauty Without Cruelty (India and South Africa)
- Anonymous for Animal RightsAnonymous for Animal RightsAnonymous for Animal Rights is an animal rights group based in Israel.It focuses on several animal rights issues: the consumption of meat and animal source foods, using animals for clothing and entertainment, and animal testing. The group started organizing protests in the 1990s and became formally...
- Center on Animal Liberation AffairsCenter on Animal Liberation AffairsThe Center on Animal Liberation Affairs is a scholarly center established to advance the study and discourse of animal liberation principles and practices....
(CALA) - Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT)
- Compassion Over KillingCompassion Over KillingCompassion Over Killing is a nonprofit animal protection organization based in Washington, D.C., founded by Paul Shapiro and currently led by Erica Meier. Formed in 1995, COK's primary campaigns are to advocate against factory farms and promote vegetarian eating...
(COK) - Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi
- EquanimalEquanimalEquanimal is a Spanish non profit animal rights organization. Comes from the fusion in 2006 of "Alternativa para la Liberación Animal" and "Derechos para los Animales" .They focus on anything they consider against animal exploitation, such as animal testing, fur farms and the use of fur as...
- Friends of AnimalsFriends of AnimalsFriends of Animals is an animal rights group based in Darien, Connecticut in the United States. It was founded by Alice Herrington in 1957 in Manhattan, New York, with an aim of reducing the number of stray cats and dogs by offering low cost spay and neutering, and went on to expand its activities...
(FoA) - Fox Watch
- Fox Watch
- In Defense of AnimalsIn Defense of AnimalsIn Defense of Animals is an animal rights organization founded in 1983 in San Rafael, California, USA. It has 60,000 members and an annual budget of $650,000. The group's slogan is "working to protect the rights, welfare, and habitats of animals"....
(IDA) - International Primate Protection LeagueInternational Primate Protection LeagueThe International Primate Protection League , founded in 1973 in Thailand by Dr. Shirley McGreal, is represented in 31 countries and has offices in the UK and the US, and works toward the well being of non-human primates...
(IPPL) - Italian Horse Protection AssociationItalian Horse Protection AssociationThe Italian Horse Protection Association is the only rescue center in Italy for mistreated and confiscated equines, based on Law 189 of 2004 .-Mistreated equines:...
(IHP) - Justice DepartmentUnited States Department of JusticeThe United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...
(Animal Rights) - Last Chance for AnimalsLast Chance for AnimalsLast Chance for Animals is a US non-profit organization that advocates for animal rights. It is mostly known for its documentary, Dealing Dogs, and for its investigations against the use of animals for testing purposes....
(LCA) - Libera!Libera!Libera! is a Spanish non profit animal rights organization. To create sensitivity, they especially make education campaigns and of public awareness, complaints and other protest actions. Libera! was founded in 2004 in Barcelona...
- Massachusetts Animal Rights CoalitionMassachusetts Animal Rights CoalitionThe Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition, or MARC, is a nonprofit volunteer-run animal rights organization based in Massachusetts. MARC is the largest and most active animal rights group in Massachusetts and operates as a tax exempt 501 corporation with over 2500 members of all ages and...
(MARC) - Mercy For AnimalsMercy for AnimalsMercy for Animals is an animal rights group based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in October 1999, it is a nonprofit, tax exempt, 501 organization with more than 25,000 members. Nathan Runkle is the group's executive director and founder...
(MFA) - Midlands Animal Rights Coalition
- Party for the Animals USA
- People for the Ethical Treatment of AnimalsPeople for the Ethical Treatment of AnimalsPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. A non-profit corporation with 300 employees and two million members and supporters, it claims to be the largest animal rights...
(PETA) - People for Animal Liberation (PAL)
- Responsible Policies for Animals (RPA)
- Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
- Southern Animal Rights CoalitionSouthern Animal Rights CoalitionThe Southern Animal Rights Coalition is an umbrella organisation for groups campaigning against animal abuse in southern England. SARC campaign on a variety of issues, one being focusing on pets. They also campaign against animal testing, furs, wild boar farms and more recently foie gras and...
(SARC) - The Snake Man]
- TARVE "The Voice For Farmed Animals"
- Western Animal Rights NetworkWestern Animal Rights NetworkThe Western Animal Rights Network first appeared in 2005 as a coalition for animal rights groups in the West of England and South Wales and acted as a news service for animal rights demos and action reports....
(WARN) - World Event to End Animal Cruelty (WEEAC)
- http://www.weeac.com (WEEAC)
- World Society for the Protection of AnimalsWorld Society for the Protection of AnimalsThe World Society for the Protection of Animals is an international non-profit animal welfare organization and also a federation of such organisations and active in over 150 countries with more than 1000 member societies.- Organization :...
(WSPA) - Uncaged CampaignsUncaged CampaignsUncaged Campaigns is a Sheffield, UK, based anti-vivisection, not-for-profit organisation and a registered company limited by guarantee.-History:...
Ongoing movements/campaigns
- Americans For Medical AdvancementAmericans For Medical AdvancementAmericans For Medical Advancement is a 501 science-based patient advocacy organization dedicated to improving policy and decision-making regarding the use of the animal model in biomedical research and drug testing. They oppose the use of animals only as models for predicting human response...
- British Union for the Abolition of VivisectionBritish Union for the Abolition of VivisectionThe British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection is a British animal protection and advocacy group that campaigns for the abolition of all animal experiments...
(BUAV) - Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
- Close Highgate Farm
- Dr Hadwen TrustDr Hadwen TrustThe Dr Hadwen Trust is the UK's leading medical research charity that funds and promotes exclusively non-animal techniques to replace animal experiments...
- Great Ape ProjectGreat Ape ProjectThe Great Ape Project , founded in 1994, is an international organization of primatologists, anthropologists, ethicists, and other experts who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights on non-human great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos,...
- National Anti-Vivisection SocietyNational Anti-Vivisection SocietyThe National Anti-Vivisection Society, is a national, not-for-profit animal welfare organization based in London whose purpose is to eliminate product testing, education and biomedical research on animals....
(NAVS) - Physicians Committee for Responsible MedicinePhysicians Committee for Responsible MedicineThe Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., which promotes a vegan diet, preventive medicine, alternatives to animal research, and encourages what it describes as "higher standards of ethics and effectiveness in research." Its primary...
(PCRM) - Primate Freedom ProjectPrimate Freedom Project]The Primate Freedom Project is a 501 not-for-profit grassroots abolitionist animal rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. It is dedicated to ending the use of nonhuman primates in biomedical and harmful behavioral experimentation...
- Rocky Mountain Animal DefenseRocky Mountain Animal DefenseRocky Mountain Animal Defense is a U.S.-based non-profit 501-C-3 organization that helps eliminate the human-imposed suffering of animals in the Rocky Mountain region. The group was formed in 1994. RMAD furthers its mission through public education, community outreach, litigation, legislation and...
- SPEAKSPEAK (animals)SPEAK, the Voice for the Animals is a British animal rights campaign founded in 2003 that aims to end animal experimentation in the UK. It has to date fought against two projects. The first was a proposed non-human primate research facility at the University of Cambridge, which was abandoned in...
- Stop Huntingdon Animal CrueltyStop Huntingdon Animal CrueltyStop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty is an international animal rights campaign to close down Huntingdon Life Sciences , Europe's largest contract animal-testing laboratory. HLS tests medical and non-medical substances on around 75,000 animals every year, from rats to primates...
(SHAC) - Stop Sequani Animal Testing (SSAT)
- Stop Wickham Animal Testing (SWAT)
Historical campaigns
- Consort Beagles Campaign
- Save the Goats
- Save the Hill Grove CatsSave the Hill Grove CatsSave the Hill Grove Cats was a British animal rights campaign set up in 1997 with the aim of closing Hill Grove Farm near Witney in Oxfordshire. The farm, owned by Christopher Brown, was the last commercial breeder of cats for laboratories in the United Kingdom...
- Save the Newchurch Guinea PigsSave the Newchurch Guinea PigsSave the Newchurch Guinea Pigs was a six-year campaign by British animal rights activists to close a farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire that bred guinea pigs for animal research...
- Save the Shamrock Monkeys
Vegan/vegetarian-oriented groups
- Movement for Compassionate LivingMovement for Compassionate LivingThe Movement for Compassionate Living is a UK based organisation promoting veganism and sustainable living. Membership is informal, based on subscription to the group's journal New Leaves, with subscribers in many countries....
(MCL) - TARVE "The Voice For Farmed Animals"
- Vegan OutreachVegan OutreachVegan Outreach is an American grassroots animal advocacy group working to promote veganism through the widespread distribution of printed informational booklets. As of March 2010, over 11 million hard copies of Vegan Outreach brochures have been handed out by members of Vegan Outreach around the...
- Vegan SocietyVegan SocietyThe Vegan Society is a registered charity and the oldest vegan society in the world, founded on November 1, 1944, in England by Donald Watson, Elsie "Sally" Shrigley, and 23 others....
- Vegetarian SocietyVegetarian SocietyThe Vegetarian Society is a British registered charity established on 30 September 1847 to "support, represent and increase the number of vegetarians in the UK."-History:...
- Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals (Viva!)
- Veggies Catering Campaign
- Ulove! The United Liberation of Vegetarian Ethics (Ulove)
Groups focused on farm animals
- Farm SanctuaryFarm SanctuaryFarm Sanctuary is an American animal protection organization, founded in 1986 as an advocate for farm animals. It promotes laws and policies that support animal welfare, animal protection and vegetarianism/veganism through rescue, education and advocacy...
- Farm USA
- United Poultry ConcernsUnited Poultry ConcernsUnited Poultry Concerns is a national non-profit animal rights organization that addresses the concerns over the treatment of domestic fowl, including chickens, ducks and turkeys in food production, science, education, entertainment, and human companship situations.According to UPC's website,...
(UPC) - Mercy For Animals (MFA)
- Compassion Over Killing (COK)
- TARVE "The Voice For Farmed Animals"
Prisoner support groups
- ArkangelArkangel (magazine)Arkangel is a British-based bi-annual animal liberation magazine, first published in the winter of 1989. The magazine, which is sold internationally, covers global aspects of underground and overground animal rights campaigning, and promotes a vegan lifestyle.The magazine was the idea of Ronnie...
- Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group (ALFSG UK)
- Bite BackBite BackBite Back is a Malaysia-registered website and magazine that promotes the cause of the animal liberation movement, and specifically the Animal Liberation Front...
- Earth Liberation Prisoner Support Network (ELPSN)
- No CompromiseNo Compromise (magazine)No Compromise was a San Francisco, California, USA-based bi-annual animal rights magazine, first published in the winter of 1989. The magazine covered global aspects of animal rights and promoted a vegan lifestyle, which included the use of cruelty-free products.The magazine was founded by Freeman...
- Vegan Prisoners Support GroupVegan Prisoners Support GroupThe Vegan Prisoners Support Group is an organization based in the United Kingdom that provides support for vegans in prison, primarily vegans who are imprisoned for animal rights activity...
(VPSG)
Leaderless resistance movements, campaigns and organizations
Broadly-focused movements, campaigns and organizations
- Animal Liberation FrontAnimal Liberation FrontThe Animal Liberation Front is an international, underground leaderless resistance that engages in illegal direct action in pursuit of animal liberation...
(ALF) - Animal Rights MilitiaAnimal Rights MilitiaThe Animal Rights Militia is a banner used by animal rights activists who engage in direct action that ignores the Animal Liberation Front's policy of taking all necessary precautions to avoid harm to human and non-human life.-History:...
(ARM) - Animal Rights UK
- Justice Department
- Lobster Liberation FrontLobster Liberation FrontThe Lobster Liberation Front is an animal rights campaign which first appeared on the coasts of Dorset in 2004, later spreading to Wales, Scotland, and some European countries...
(LLF) - Southern Animal Rights CoalitionSouthern Animal Rights CoalitionThe Southern Animal Rights Coalition is an umbrella organisation for groups campaigning against animal abuse in southern England. SARC campaign on a variety of issues, one being focusing on pets. They also campaign against animal testing, furs, wild boar farms and more recently foie gras and...
(SARC) - Western Animal Rights NetworkWestern Animal Rights NetworkThe Western Animal Rights Network first appeared in 2005 as a coalition for animal rights groups in the West of England and South Wales and acted as a news service for animal rights demos and action reports....
(WARN)
Movements/campaigns focused on hunting
- Hunt Retribution SquadHunt Retribution SquadThe Hunt Retribution Squad is a name used by militant animal rights activists that are willing to inflict harm on those involved in blood sport...
(HRS) - Hunt Saboteurs AssociationHunt Saboteurs AssociationThe Hunt Saboteurs Association is a worldwide organization using direct action to stop the hunting of animals. HSA activists use a model of leaderless resistance and have been using the same basic tactics since their inception in 1963; the underlying principle being to directly intervene in a...
(HSA)
Ongoing movements/campaigns
- Close Highgate Farm
- Militant Forces Against Huntingdon Life Sciences (MFAH)
- Oxford Arson SquadOxford Arson SquadOxford Arson Squad is a militant organization, which emerged in the United Kingdom in 2005 after claiming the firebombing of the Corpus Christi College Sports Pavilion at Oxford University...
- Revolutionary Cells - Animal Liberation Brigade (RCALB)
- Stop Huntingdon Animal CrueltyStop Huntingdon Animal CrueltyStop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty is an international animal rights campaign to close down Huntingdon Life Sciences , Europe's largest contract animal-testing laboratory. HLS tests medical and non-medical substances on around 75,000 animals every year, from rats to primates...
(SHAC) - Stop Sequani Animal Testing (SSAT)
- Stop Wickham Animal Testing (SWAT)
Successful campaigns
- Consort Beagles Campaign
- Save the Goats
- Save the Hill Grove CatsSave the Hill Grove CatsSave the Hill Grove Cats was a British animal rights campaign set up in 1997 with the aim of closing Hill Grove Farm near Witney in Oxfordshire. The farm, owned by Christopher Brown, was the last commercial breeder of cats for laboratories in the United Kingdom...
- Save the Newchurch Guinea PigsSave the Newchurch Guinea PigsSave the Newchurch Guinea Pigs was a six-year campaign by British animal rights activists to close a farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire that bred guinea pigs for animal research...
- Save the Shamrock Monkeys
See also
- Animal rightsAnimal rightsAnimal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...
- VeganismVeganismVeganism is the practice of eliminating the use of animal products. Ethical vegans reject the commodity status of animals and the use of animal products for any purpose, while dietary vegans or strict vegetarians eliminate them from their diet only...
- List of animal welfare groups
- List of environmental organizations
- Animal welfareAnimal welfareAnimal welfare is the physical and psychological well-being of animals.The term animal welfare can also mean human concern for animal welfare or a position in a debate on animal ethics and animal rights...