http://www.animallaw.info/

National Resource Center on the Link from American Humane

The Link between child abuse, animal cruelty, and other crimes of violence against humans has now been well established.

There are presently over 400 full text cases (US, Historical and UK) and 625 statutes fully available on the site, with Michigan and California being very comprehensive. More importantly we have 23 topics that give the viewer directions and comprehensive explanations on some of the more intersting issues of the animal area. We also have a number of legal articles addressing a wide variety of animal topics. This is the best way for non-lawyers to access the information.

http://www.animallaw.com/index.cfm

AnimalLaw.com provides access to legislation and legal matters pertaining to the rights and welfare of animals. AnimalLaw.com  supports information concerning animal cruelty, laboratory animal welfare, the use of animals in education, product testing and in the laboratory, animal control issues, and general animal welfare.

http://www.lclark.edu/~alj/

Animal Law is a student-run law review based at Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Animal Law offers a unique forum for the scholarly discussion of legal issues related to animals.

The Great Ape Project aims to achieve political change that establishes the legal right to life, the protection of individual liberty and freedom from torture for the nonhuman great apes. Our long-term goal is a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes. When this historic result has been achieved, we will advocate the setting up of guarded territories so that chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans can continue to live as free beings in their own ways.

CEFR seeks to expand such fundamental legal rights as bodily integrity and bodily liberty to nonhuman animals, beginning with chimpanzees and bonobos, through litigation and education.

http://www.friendsofanimals.org

Friends of Animals is an international non-profit, animal advocacy organization, incorporated in the state of New York in 1957. FoA works to cultivate a respectful view of nonhuman animals, free-living and domestic. Our goal is to free animals from cruelty and institutionalized exploitation around the world.

http://www.hsus.org
Humane Society State of the Animals Series ...comprehensive reviews of many aspects of animal welfare

http://www.hsus.org/ace/13167

State of the Animals 2001 chapters are available online   focus on  farm animals, companion animals, laboratory animals, zoo animals, and wildlife worldwide

http://www.petfinder.org
http://www.ASPCA.org

PSY ETA is proud to be working with Petfinder and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in support of this site dedicated to the adoption of companion animals from shelters. PSY ETA is providing expert advise to the shelter/rescue community to help deal with the burden of their important work. 

http://www.animalplace.org

Animal Place is a nonprofit sanctuary for abused and discarded ‘farm' animals founded in 1989.  Animal Place also concentrates on education. They develop educational materials to provide the public, primarily youngsters, with information on why they should view ‘farm' animals as more than just food.

http://www.hsus.org/ace/352

HSUS makes a difference in the lives of animals here at home and worldwide. The HSUS is dedicated to creating a world where our relationship with animals is guided by compassion. We seek a truly humane society in which animals are respected for their intrinsic value, and where the human-animal bond is strong.

http://www.farmsanctuary.org

Farm Sanctuary's New York and California farm shelters rescue, rehabilitate, and provide life-long care for hundreds of animals rescued from factory farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/

Providing Information for improved animal care and use in research, teaching, and testing.

http://www.janegoodall.org

Advances the power of individuals to take informed and compassionate action to improve the environment of all living things. 

http://www.animalsandsociety.org

The IAS mission is to advance animal advocacy issues in public policy development by conducting scholarly research and analysis, providing education and training, and fostering cooperation with other social movements and interests.

The IAS envisions itself as a “think tank” that, by focusing on institutional change, raises the standard of public debate on animal rights, advances concerns about animals as a public policy issue, and positions animal rights as fundamental to a just, compassionate, and peaceful society.

http://www.arktrust.org/

Animal rights organization whose primary focus is to promote extensive and positive coverage of animal topics by the major media.

This subject guide focuses on animal experimentation as a method of biological and medical research, concern for the welfare and rights of laboratory animals, and the antivivisection movement.

http://www.dawnwatch.com

Animal advocacy media watch that facilitates one click responses to relevant media outlets.

http://www.bestfriends.org

The nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned cats, dogs and other animals, based in Utah.

http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/ojjdp/188677.pdf

Article by Frank Ascione

http://www.altex.ch

This site includes articles on alternatives to animal testing, animal-free research and reduction, refinement, and replacement which are published in the magazine, ALTEX.

http://www.rescuethebirds.org/

Our mission is to provide permanent, quot;retirementquot; housing and care for any and all psittacine birds, provide education to the public about the proper care of exotic birds, to locate good homes for birds in need, to assist in the investigation of abuse, neglect, and mistreatment of exotic birds in
captivity, and to aid in the removal of those birds from those situations.

http://www.avar.org

The AVAR actively works toward the acquisition of rights for all nonhuman animals by educating
the public and the veterinary profession about a variety of issues concerning nonhuman animal use. The AVAR is actively seeking reformation of the way society treats all nonhumans and an increase in environmental awareness, as well.

http://www.ifaw.org/

The International Fund for Animal Welfare, or IFAW, rejects the notion that the interests of humans and animals are separate. Instead they embrace the understanding that the fate and future of all  animals on Earth - are inextricably linked to our own. 

http://www.awionline.org

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1951 to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans.

http://www.saplonline.org

The Society for Animal Protective Legislation (SAPL) was founded in 1955 when only two federal laws to protect animals existed. Since then, SAPL has worked for the successful enactment of over 15 additional federal laws. 

http://worldanimal.net/protect.html

The WAN Web site contains information on animal protection legislation at regional, national and international level. It includes useful references to books and resources, contacts, and links to Web Sites of interest.

http://www.tufts.edu/vet/cfa/hoarding/index.html

Animal hoarding, sometimes known as collecting, is a poorly understood phenomenon with serious consequences for animal health and welfare, as well as human health and welfare. Animal hoarding transcends simply owning or caring for more than the typical number of pets and is not about legitimate sheltering or rescue.

http://www.api4animals.org/

The Animal Protection Institute (API) is a national animal advocacy nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, contributions to which are tax-deductible. Founded in 1968, API's mission is to advocate for the protection of animals from cruelty and exploitation

http://www.altarriba.org/

a non-profit association which works for programmes and actions related to animal protection. In our country (Spain), pets suffer all kinds of cruel outrage; the Foundation is especially involved in their needs but also offers assistance in other areas.

http://www.ethologicalethics.org

EETA/CRABS  purpose is to develop and to maintain the highest of ethical standards in comparative ethological research that is conducted in the field and in the laboratory. Furthermore, we wish to use the latest developments from research in cognitive ethology and on
animal sentience to inform  discussion and debate about the practical implications of available
data and for the ongoing development of policy. Scientists, non-scientists, teachers, and students are most welcomed to join.

http://worldanimal.net/index.html

World Animal Net is the world's largest network of animal protection societies with over 1,700 affiliates in more than 90 countries campaigning to improve the status and welfare of animals.  The WAN Web site contains information on animal protection legislation at regional, national and international level. It includes useful references to books and resources, contacts, and searchable links to over 6,000 Web sites of organizations can be found in the WAN Directory quot;Web sites of interestquot;

http://www.upc-online.org

United Poultry Concerns is a national nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl

http://www.farmedanimal.net

Farmed Animal Watch is a free, weekly digest of news and information concerning farmed animal issues gleaned from an array of academic, industry, advocacy and mainstream media sources.

http://www.idausa.org

Founded in 1983 by veterinarian Elliot M. Katz, In Defense of Animals (IDA) is a leading national non-profit animal protection organization dedicated to ending the institutionalized exploitation and abuse of animals by defending their rights, welfare and habitats. IDA is committed to protecting animals from suffering and to educating the public about what they can do to help end animal abuse. IDA is pro-science, pro-environment, pro-animal, and pro-people; it is committed to dialogue and reason, but not afraid to take action when necessary to save animals from senseless torture.

http://www.pet-abuse.com/

Inhumane.org and Pet-Abuse.com have joined efforts to produce a registry of animal abuse cases. The more than 800 cases entered to date include information from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., New Zealand, and Spain. (Information is also available in Spanish.) While the site focuses on companion animals, it also includes farmed animal abuse cases. The database is searchable by location, date, or type of abuse. Abusers names, addresses and case information are available.

http://www.vachss.com/guest_dispatches/ascione_2.html

This study represents the first attempt to assess animal maltreatment in samples of women seeking safety at shelters for women who are battered (101 women) and community samples of women who were not battered (60 women).

http://www.idausa.org

Our mission is to secure the rights, welfare and habitats of animals - to make the world a more just and compassionate place for all of our fellow beings. Information is available on pet theft, pet overpopulation, puppy mills, veganism, humane/anti-violence education, animals in entertainment, animal experimentation, dissection, animal guardianship and more.

http://sztybel.tripod.com/dances.html

David Sztybel is Adjunct Professor and Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.  His website contains references to several scholarly philosophical articles on animal rights and a number of  highly readable articles written for a more popular audience. This links to his quot; Dances With Reason: Responses to Common Objections to Animal Rights quot; page.

The Tom Regan Animal Rights Archive provides a categorized and searchable collection of links to online resources for animal rights research. Also linked from our site is a detailed description of the Tom Regan Collection, which was recently donated to the North Carolina State Library Special Collections Department.

http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/

UBC list of ethics related links Centre for Applied Ethics, Animal Welfare and the Ethics of Animal Use.

http://www.animalsvoice.com

Animals Voice.com is the offspring of The Animals Voice Magazine, an internationally acclaimed, mainstream-awarded animal rights newsmagazine which was published between 1986 and 1997.

http://www.neavs.org

The New England Anti-Vivisection Society, founded in 1895, works to expose and replace animal experiments in laboratories and classrooms with ethically and scientifically responsible modern research methods and to protect human beings who may be subjected to such experiments.

http://www.iaabc.org

The IAABC Mission is to assist companion animals and their humans by interrupting the cycle of inappropriate punishment, rejection, and euthanasia of animals due to behavior problems that are resolvable.
The International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants, Inc. is a professional association for the field of animal behavior consulting. The association represents the professional interests of behavior consultants throughout the world. It is involved with the problems, needs and changing patterns of animal-owner relationships, and helps to ensure that the public's needs are met by trained practitioners. The association provides the tools and resources animal behavior professionals need to succeed. It works tirelessly to nourish the animal-human bond.

http://www.animalbehavior.org/

A non-profit scientific society, founded to encourage and promote the study of animal behavior.

http://netvet.wustl.edu/

Huge list of helpful web sites relating to many species of animals. Site originates at Washington University, St. Louis and Dr. Ken Boschert.

http://chimpculture.st-and.ac.uk/chimp/

This website gives access to an online database that describes the cultural variations in chimpanzee behaviour, and shows behaviour distributions across the long-term study sites in Africa.

http://www.animalvoice.com

Fauna Communications Research Institute is a non-profit (501- C3) institute dedicated to the study of animal communication, especially those animals that are endangered in the wild. This type of animal communication research contributes extensively to the knowledge of an animal, and helps with its continued conservation and protection. We have a vocalization database of endangered and threatened species that we are continually updating. Humans tend to equate communication with intelligence, perhaps the public would do more to protect these great creatures if they consider them knowing.The institute conducts communication-behavior correlation studies on species that have never been recorded before.

http://www.arkive.org/

A new Noah's Ark is being established by the Wildscreen Trust. Called ARKive, it will be the world's digital library of natural history moving images, photographs and sound recordings with priority given to endangered species. As extinction rates rise, these images and recordings may soon be all we have left of many species. However there are no safeguards for the preservation of these records, no centrally-held catalogue or database about them, and much is being lost and is inaccessible to the general public and unavailable for educational use.

www.animalsandus.org.nz

Primarily an educational group "on different topics related to animal exploitation."

http://www.pan-inc.org

Includes info about distance learning in Human-Animal Relations

http://www.tufts.edu/vet/cfa/coursestud.html

Info about Tufts Masters program in Animals and Public Policy

http://www.hsus.org/ace/11317

A list of Human Animal Studies college courses

http://www.latham.org

A non-profit that promotes humane education

Outreach Program

http://rockydellresources.homestead.com

Bibliographic tools for the field of human-animal relationships.

http://www.nahee.org/aboutus/

The National Association for Humane and Environmental Education (NAHEE) is the youth education division of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).  NAHEE works to establish humane education and to help children embody the ideal of respect and kindness toward people, animals, and the earth.

http://www.catchword.com

Online access to current issues of Society and Animals can be purchased from Brill, the publisher of S&A, at Catchword.

Publisher of journals, including Society and Animals .

http://www.erlbaum.com/

Publisher for Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science (JAAWS)

http://www.asanet.org/sectionanimals/

The purpose of the Section on Animals and Society is to encourage and support the development of theory, research and teaching about the complex relationships that exist between humans and other animals.  In the process, it is anticipated that the light we shed on these issues will increase the well-being of both humans and other animals.

http://www.agsci.ubc.ca/grad/animal_sc.htm

http://www.recordinganimaladvocacy.org

Includes dozens of excerpts taken from an on-going quot;Animal Advocates Oral History Project quot;.  All the interviewees have been involved with animal protection for decades.  (The original tapes and transcripts of these oral histories are available to all researchers in Columbia University's Oral History Collection.)  The non-profit group Recording Animal Advocacy is responsible for conducting these interviews.  Its mission is to encourage a deeper understanding of the history of animal protection.

http://www.cwu.edu/~cwuchci/

CHCI is a sanctuary for five adult chimpanzees who communicate with humans and each other using American Sign Language (ASL). The mission of CHCI is to protect and care for these Chimpanzees, educate the public on the endangered status of wild chimpanzees, help improve the lives of all captive chimpanzees through ongoing research, and serve as a humane research facility for students.

http://www.mdc.edu/animalethicskendall/animalethics/

The Animal/Ethics Study Center (AESC) provides educational resources for students and faculty, that increase awareness about current animal-ethics issues, explore various perspectives regarding other species and their habitats, and support equitable consideration and standards for all species.

http://www.socialpsychology.org

Social Psychology Network, the largest social psychology database on the Internet. In these pages, you'll find more than 5,000 links related to psychology. This is a searchable database maintained by Professor Scott Plous of Wesleyan University and includes many links to animal related matters.

http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/depts-pppp/

People-Pet Partnership at WSU

http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/depts-pppp/research.asp

Pets and autism research

http://users.skynet.be/ethologia/

Encourages and initiates studies on human-pet relations, and examines the role and the place of pets in our society.

http://nursing.msu.edu/habi/index.html

The College of Nursing, in collaboration with veterinarians and animal behaviorists, announces the development of Human-Animal Bond Initiative. Our goal is to better understand the interactions between humans and animals and to better assess how animals enrich our lives.

http://www.cairc.org/

Japanese organization dedicated to Human animal bond and better environment for co-existence.  Web site is in English and Japanese.

http://www.humaneresearch.org

The Humane Research Council is a nonprofit service organization that helps animal advocates improve their efforts by applying social and marketing resarch methods. HRC provides research design, implementation, and management services for a range of methods, including focus groups, depth interviews, and quantitative surveys using mail, phone, or online methods.

http://www.pawssf.org/

PAWS is a volunteer-based organization that helps people living with AIDS and other disabling illnesses to keep and care for their companion animals. PAWS additionally educates the community about the human-animal bond.

http://www.iahaio.org/html/about.htm

An organization interested in advancing the understanding and appreciation of the link between animals and humans.

http://www.geocities.com/gevha_ed

GEVHA  - Grupo para el Estudio de la Violencia en Humanos y Animales. Educación Humanitaria

http://www.iaadp.org/

A non-profit, cross-disability organization representing people partnered with guide, hearing and service dogs.

http://www.all-creatures.org

All-Creatures.org is sponsored by the Mary T. and Frank L. Hoffman Foundation and is dedicated to cruelty-free living through a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle according to Judeo-Christian ethics. 

http://www.earthcharter.org
http://www.earthcharterusa.org

The Earth Charter is a Declaration of Interdependence which recognizes that humanity's environmental, economic, social, cultural, ethical, and spiritual aspirations are all interconnected. It grew out of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and has since come into being through an extraordinary grassroots-drafting process during which people from 56 countries gathered in cities, villages, meeting halls, schools, and in the open air to weave their shared dream for a better world into the Earth Charter: Declaration of Interdependence. This drafting process was supported by Maurice Strong, secretary general of the Earth Summit, Mikhail Gorbachev, chair of the Green Cross International, the Dutch government, and Professor Steven Rockefeller, chair of the International Drafting Committee. Plans are to present the Earth Charter to the United Nations' General Assembly in June 2002 for endorsement.

http://www.hsus.org/ace/352

HSUS makes a difference in the lives of animals here at home and worldwide. The HSUS is dedicated to creating a world where our relationship with animals is guided by compassion. We seek a truly humane society in which animals are respected for their intrinsic value, and where the human-animal bond is strong. 

http://www.avar.org/

The AVAR operates under the premise that all nonhuman animals have value and interests independent of the values and interests of other animals, including human beings. As physicians protect the interests and needs of their patients, so should veterinarians. Especially noteworthy on the site is the AVAR Alternatives in Education Database This web-based, user-searchable database contains information on various alternatives to using, harming or killing nonhuman animals in all levels of education. 

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~nilas/

NILAS is an organization which promotes understanding of traditional bonds between human beings and the natural world. NILAS is a group of people dedicated to understanding relationships between human beings and the natural world, through the mediation of stories, poems, legends, pictures, and other cultural products. We regard interactions of people with fauna and flora as a subject that is sufficiently significant, complex and interesting to merit the most serious attention of both poets and scholars. We view literature and the arts as inheritors of the tradition of old mythologies, which were less concerned with interpersonal relationships than with the orientation of the human race with respect to other beings. The writing that focuses on specific animals and plants, together with their relationship to human beings, we are calling quot;totemic literature. quot;

http://www.asanet.org/sectionanimals/

The purpose of the Section on Animals and Society is to encourage and support the development of theory, research and teaching about the complex relationships that exist between humans and other animals. In the process, it is anticipated that the light we shed on these issues will increase the well-being of both humans and other animals. This website has much useful information including syllabi of college courses on Animals and Society. Members of the American Sociological Association are invited to join this ASA section and you do not have to be a sociologist to join ASA!

http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jsaae/index-e.html

Our aim is to accomplish the 3Rs (replacement of medical research using animals with another research not involving animals, reduction in the number of animals used and mitigation of pain to animals and still attaining a good deal of effective information (refinement) proposed by Russel and Burch (1954). Moreover, the Society has played an important role in related education, collecting relevant information and undertaking publicity activities.

http://www.animaldisabilities.com

Animal Disabilities is a web site run by an undergraduate student at Louisiana State University with information on how to help companion animals with physical disabilities as well as information on what kind of adaptations guardians can make to help their disabled animal overcome their disabilities. It is a project that not only focuses the therapy, but also on the quality of support that the guardians offer their pets.

http://www.drdog.com

Dr. Dennis Fetko, called Dr. Dog by his audiences, is an internationally renowned animal behavior, animal and human training, and organizational management expert with decades of experience. He has worked across the world, from Saudi Arabia to New Zealand, for over three decades. His internet radio show is on live every Tuesday at 1PM Pacific time.

www.LearningWithoutKilling.info

provide students with easy access to the resources they need to support their campaigns  for humane alternatives to  animal use in education. It includes books on humane alternatives to harmful animal use in education, conscientious objection student guides, lists of educational studies proving that alternative students perform at least as well as those trained via harming animals, alternatives submissions (that have already been successful in ending hundreds of animal experiments at several major universities worldwide), and the world's largest photo gallery on the subject, including 125 high-quality photos of animal dissection, experimentation, surgical training, computer simulations, mannequins and models, preserved tissues, and humane surgical training alternatives. A memorial page contains stories from students about animals they've seen harmed or killed.

http://biology.about.com/cs/dissections/

This quot;What you need to know about biology quot; site provides links to a variety of virtual dissections for different species.

http://www.interniche.org/

InterNICHE is the International Network for Humane Education. We aim for a high quality, fully humane education in biological science, veterinary and human medicine. We support progressive science teaching and the replacement of animal experiments by working with teachers to introduce alternatives, and with students to support freedom of conscience.

http://narha.org/

Therapeutic riding (hippotherapy)

http://www.edenalt.com/

Animals and plants in nursing homes

http://www.therapyanimals.org/read/index.php

Reading program with animals

http://www.deltasociety.org/

Delta Society goals include improving human health through service and therapy animals and expanding awareness of the positive effect animals can have on human health and development.

http://www.eagala.org

The Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association (EAGALA) is a non-profit association devoted to the field of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy.

http://www.shilohproject.org

The Shiloh Project breaks the cycle of violence for juvenile offenders and children at-risk by instilling them with a sense of compassion, respect and responsibility toward animals and others through the experience of training and nurturing homeless dogs awaiting adoption.

Equest provides therapeutic sports riding classes and hippotherapy to  children and adults with all types of physical, mental and emotional disabilities.

http://www.horsejourney.com

United States Driving for the Disabled Inc. introduces people with disabilities to the sport of driving. USDFD provides training, equipment and horses for disabled people to experience this exciting and challenging sport.

http://www.catra.net/info/info.html

CATRA, the Capital Area Therapeutic Riding Association, is a nonprofit organization providing recreational and therapeutic horseback riding to physically- and mentally-challenged people of all ages. The site has information and links on therapeutic riding.

http://www.northeastrehab.com/Programs/aft.htm

Northeast Rehab Hospital has developed and maintained a very active Animal Facilitated Therapy
Program, organized and run by Ms. Linda Hume within the Therapeutic Recreation Department.

http://handinpaw.org/

Hand In Paw is Alabama's first nonprofit organization to provide registered Delta Society Pet Partner teams as therapeutic tools in medical, social service and educational settings. Hand In Paw's mission is to improve people's health and quality of life through therapeutic interaction with certified animals. Hand In Paw's  vision is a compassionate, caring society where animals and people are valued and respected. 

http://www.equinepsychotherapy.org/

The mission of this site is to provide information and resources to psychotherapists and counselors who are interested in embarking upon the work of Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy. Differing opinions, styles, theories and techniques will be included along with information on how to access organizations and people already doing the work.

http://www.vrg.org/

The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public on vegetarianism and the interrelated issues of health, nutrition, ecology, ethics, and world hunger. In addition to publishing the Vegetarian Journal, VRG produces and sells cookbooks, other books, pamphlets, and article reprints.

http://www.veganoutreach.org/index.html

Vegan Outreach is a registered non-profit organization working to end animal exploitation through the promotion of a vegan lifestyle.

http://www.vegsource.com/

Good resource for people looking for information about becoming vegetarian or vegan. Contains advice, recipes, information on parenting and weight loss, and much more.