Animal Rights, Endangered Species and Laws

Animal Rights and Laws

• Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF)
  This animal rights law organization uses the legal system to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system.
  
  

• Animal Legal and Historical Center
  Provides links and information about animal laws state by state including Arizona.
  
  

• Arizona Cruelty to Animal Law
  Arizona statute  12-2910. Cruelty to animals: interference with working or service animal; classification; definitions.

• Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights
  This association educates the public and the veterinary profession on animal rights issues.
  
  
  

• Cows Are Cool: Leather Is Cruel, Not Cool
  Discusses animal rights concerns related to leather and offers resources for locating leather alternatives.

   

• Fast Food and Animal Rights
  This companion site to an American RadioWorks program features transcripts on the egg and cattle industries and how McDonalds has taken the lead in the campaign for animal welfare.
  
  

• The Humane Society of the United States 
  Provides animal welfare information concerning pets, farm animals, wildlife, and animals used for research.

  
  
• USDA Animal Welfare Information Center
  This site provides reports and fact sheets in addition to the regulations.
  
  
  
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
  Contains FAQS on animal rights and testing, animals used for clothing, pets, zoos, and vegetarianism.
  
   
• Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Research 
  Learn about alternatives to animal laboratories and preventing illness and explore the facts and fallacies about animal experiments and dissection.

Endangered Species

• Animal Info--World's Rarest Animals:
  Population estimates of the world's rarest mammal species.
    
• EE-Link North American Association for Environmental Education:
  Endangered species information including a searchable environmental directory, state programs, and international organizations.  
  
  
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Endangered Species Program
  

  This website provides background information about the Endangered Species Act, data and documents about species on the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants, and updates about laws, policies, and other actions related to endangered species.

• Federal Endangered Species List:
  A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website that contains the Federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants and Endangered Species Act information.
  
  
• NatureServe:
  

  This searchable site contains conservation status, taxonomic, and distribution information for tens of thousands of plants, animals, and ecological communities in the United States and Canada. Includes information for rare and endangered species as well as common plants and animals.