FoA has worked vigorously throughout 2024 to stop animal cruelty and exploitation, protect critical habitats and provide lifetime care for the animals at our sanctuaries in the U.S. and Africa. We couldn’t do it without you! Click the links below for more information of some of our legal and legislative work and victories—as well as an update from our primate sanctuary—and to make an end-of-year donation.
Friend of Animals sues FWS to stop the disastrous slaughter of 450,000 barred owls
FoA presses for ESA protections for horseshoe crabs
FoA launches campaign to make vegan school lunches the norm
Queen conch gets ESA protection
Primarily Primates upgrades habitats for 29 chimps
Primarily Primates, the sanctuary in Texas Friends of Animals has managed since 2007, continues to provide a better future for its residents. Not only did we rescue additional animals, including a kinkajou, two marmosets and a capuchin, we completed another green space for chimpanzees—Ape Park One. We’re now undertaking a huge project to maintain and improve the enclosures of our 29 chimps. When chimps play, exercise, forage for food, etc., it can take its toll! Repairs,fresh paint, welding etc. are often needed.
Wild horses in Nevada, Utah get reprieve thanks to FoA
FoA continues efforts to ban rodenticides in Connecticut
In addition to drafting legislation modeled after California’s that would ban the sale and use of second generation anticoagulant rodenticides in Connecticut where we are headquartered, FoA is participating in the “THINK OUTSIDE THE BAIT BOX” education campaign across the state to help get the bill across the finish line in 2025. CT’s native raptors and mammals are dying from internal bleeding after consuming poisoned rodents who’ve taken the bait from those ubiquitous black boxes you see outside grocery stores, in housing developments and town parks, to mention a few.