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Tippi Hedren, actress & animal advocate

By | December 14, 2016 | Actors & Filmmakers, Advocates, Elephants, General, Mammals, Rescue, Sanctuaries | No comments

Tippi Hedren—the actress and longtime animal advocate, who recently published her memoir, “Tippi: A Memoir”—discusses Shambala Preserve, her sanctuary for rescued lions, tigers and other big cats that she established in 1972, and where Hedren, now 86 years old, still lives. Read more…

Adam Sugalski, executive director of OneProtest

By | November 9, 2016 | Advocates, General, Health & Behavior, Legislation, Mammals, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Adam Sugalski—executive director of OneProtest, a Florida-based advocacy organization perhaps best known for its high-profile, successful effort to help halt the Florida bear hunt—recalls how he first stepped into the role of advocate when, as a professional artist, he was invited to a circus protest and realized the appearance of the signs and other materials used at that demonstration could be made sharper, and more effective. Read more…

Sy Montgomery, author of “The Soul of an Octopus”

By | January 13, 2016 | Authors, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, General | No comments

Sy Montgomery—author of 20 nonfiction books for adults and children, including the memoir about life with her pig, “The Good Good Pig,” and, most recently, “The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness”–recalls growing up as a military brat, moving a lot, but animals (including a terrier and a parakeet) as her companions representing a central through line of her life during those formative years. Read more…

Dr. Lori Marino, founder of the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy

By | January 6, 2016 | Advocates, Captive, Cetaceans, Educators, Elephants, General, Health & Behavior, Sanctuaries | No comments

Dr. Lori Marino—founder and executive director of the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy, as well as a neuroscientist and expert in animal behavior and intelligence—explains exactly what a neuroscientist is, and how that academic orientation informs her thinking about animal behavior as opposed to, say, an animal behaviorist without that scientific training. Read more…

Don Anthony of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF)

By | March 11, 2015 | Advocates, Captive, Cetaceans, Elephants, Factory Farming, Legislation, Vegetarian/Vegan, Wild | No comments

Don Anthony–Communications Director of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF), which, since 1989, has been speaking and acting on behalf of animals in a multitude of ways—traces the history of the organization, including the impetus for its founding. Read more…

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