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One of our supporters, Diane Haynes, said it best, “We BC-ers certainly sent mixed messages to our governmental leaders yesterday. We care, but not enough

Sign our petition to ban the leg hold trap! Trapping is an inherently violent practice that is as unnecessary as it is cruel. All leg

What animal issues concern you most? The BC SPCA is currently developing a new five-year strategic plan and they are looking for your feedback. To

The Ontario government is poised to make drastic changes to the internationally celebrated Endangered Species Act as recommended by the Ministry of Natural Resources. These

Supporters beware: not all wildlife ‘protection’ groups were created equally.People are routinely shocked when they learn that some of the most internationally recognized wildlife organizations

Source: BC SPCALike many other wild animals, seal mothers leave their pups alone for short periods of time while they return to the water to

Spring clean and save animals! One of our awesome Vancouver-based supporters, Helen S., is throwing a big garage sale on Sunday, April 28, West 13th

TORONTO -The recent discovery of skinned beaver carcasses in the Don Valley has a national wildlife protection group calling for a ban on the use

It’s hard to imagine that someone would want to deliberately hurt and torture an animal. It’s even worse to think that extreme animal cruelty is

Source: Peaceful Parks CoalitionMany of you have never been, and will never go, to Wabakimi Wilderness Park north of Thunder Bay and west of Lake

Canada’s commercial seal hunt opens off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador today, despite a lack of demand for seal products and restrictions on seal

Special thanks to you and Nice Shoes, we were recently able to raise $2,096 to help fur-bearing animals! On Friday, April 5th we celebrated the

UPDATE (Apr 24/13): We have received a response from Alastair Cribb, DVD PhD, Dean, Calgary Faculty of Med who said, “There is currently no active

Don’t miss your chance to see The Ghosts in Our Machine, the brand new documentary from filmmaker Liz Marshall that follows internationally renowned photographer Jo-Anne

We are happy to be teaming up with a caring, dedicated group known as Dedic8! Every so often we get the chance to work with

Jasmine Polsinelli may be 11, but she is already one of the most committed animal defenders APFA has ever met. We first got to know

The goal of APFA is twofold: 1) to end the commercial fur trade. Not make it prettier, or nicer. To put an end to it

Guest blogger: Brad Gates, B.Sc. Wildlife removal companies are not government licensed. Without any form of regulation governing the needed requirements to start a wildlife

Guest blogger: Dr. David Steele You’ve undoubtedly heard a great deal about the proposed tar sands pipelines. They’re all over the news. There have been

Source: Peaceful Parks, OntarioTrappers are an aging demographic, and are now pushing for a government sponsored, publicly funded trapping apprenticeship program to train the next

The beaver is the largest rodent in North America, with adults as long as 4 feet and up to 60 pounds. These incredible animals are

A diesel pipeline burst this week in Utah, and beavers are being credited for helping to control the spill. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says

“It takes a community to coexist”, according to Lesley Sampson ofCoyote Watch Canada. The Toronto APFA office has been working hard over the past few

By guest blogger: Sadie Parr Fort St. John, which is located in Northeastern B.C., has been awarding cash prizes to people who kill wolves; small,