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It’s not easy to accept that all things must eventually come to an end. We often go into denial in the face of the inevitable and airbrush away the aftermath when it does occur. So it probably shouldn’t have surprised me to read about a gardener who glossed over the demise of an entire tree with...

The 300-acre Camp Muse at Shin Pond, Maine, is the site of a summer retreat program for writers, scholars, artists, educators and other cultural producers and knowledge workers focusing on animals and/or their humane treatment. The program, operated by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)...

Are animal experiments being conducted in your city/state or at your university or alma mater? Use the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s public search tool to find out! The Animal Welfare Act requires facilities in the U.S. that conduct experiments* on certain animals** to register with the...

American alligators are large aquatic reptiles with strong jaws, armor-like bodies and muscular tails.

Bears are powerful, majestic animals who face numerous threats.

Chimpanzees are wild, complex animals who live in family groups and form lifelong bonds.

Coyotes deserve lives free from persecution.

Sensitive, intelligent elephants are the world’s largest land mammal (by weight) and a living link to long-extinct species like the woolly mammoth.

Guinea pigs are gentle, curious pets.

Hamsters are desert-dwelling rodents who have become popular pets.

Horses are strong and resilient.

Large-eyed, long-tailed lemurs are complex primates who belong exclusively in Madagascar.

Monkeys are agile, intelligent primates—some of the closest animal relatives to humans.

Pangolins are gentle mammals who curl into a defensive ball when threatened.

Depending on pack ice for their habitat, polar bears are threatened by climate change—and by traffic in their fur and parts.

Tigers are the largest cat species, with striped coat patterns as unique as fingerprints.

It’s not easy to write a book roundup for All Animals. As the magazine’s name implies, we don’t discriminate. A book that celebrates butterflies and birds but maligns squirrels and snakes will never make the cut. That narrows the field considerably but still leaves treasures for summer reading. From...

The term “roadkill” was coined in the 1940s, according to Merriam-Webster, entering the lexicon alongside “DDT” and other harbingers of a dystopian technological age that runs roughshod over the natural world. In the 1990s, the word became a cheeky insult when a rival called then-House Speaker Newt...

They slip soundlessly through our landscapes, cloaked in a rainbow of colors and patterns that help them become one with bark, rocks, leaves and soil. Often the only sign of their existence is what they leave behind: ghostly shed skins imprinted with shapes of eyes and scales, traces of pigmentation...

The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Legislative Fund released the following statements in response to the introduction of the “Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression” (EATS) Act. The EATS Act was modeled after the notorious “King amendment” which former Rep. Steve King (R-IA)...