LIVEKINDLY: FORBES CONTRIBUTOR CALLS ON BUSINESSES TO GO VEGAN IN 2018 – ‘THIS MOVEMENT IS JUST GETTING STARTED’

“Rather than resist the inevitable, smart animal agriculture businesses are getting in on the plant-based revolution by buying or investing in plant-based brands,” writes Katrina Fox for Forbes. The future of business is vegan, & it's a lucrative one too.

HSUS: Federal Court of Appeals Prohibits Import of Elephant and Lion Trophies

U.S. Court of Appeals announced their decision to uphold the conservation mandate set in place by the Endangered Species Act, supporting the need to rigorously analyze applications to import hunting trophies of species threatened with extinction.

SEA SHEPHERD: Arrest of poaching vessel shows shark liver oil production could drive species to extinction

The arrest of the internationally-blacklisted fishing vessel Labiko 2 by the Liberian Coast Guard, assisted by Sea Shepherd, gives insight into the shadowy and largely unregulated shark liver oil industry.

LC4A: Stolen Babies, Suffering Mothers – the Exploitation of Female Animals

Meet Clarabelle, a devoted mother rescued from the dairy industry while pregnant and only hours from slaughter. In order to produce milk, Clarabelle endured a brutal yearly cycle of forced impregnation & childbirth, only to have her babies ripped away.