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Animal rights Notable activists Greg Avery • David Barbarash Mel Broughton • Rod Coronado Barry Horne • Ronnie Lee Keith Mann • Ingrid Newkirk Heather Nicholson • Jill Phipps Craig Rosebraugh • Henry Spira Andrew Tyler • Jerry Vlasak Paul Watson • Robin Webb Notable writers Carol Adams • Jeremy Bentham Steven Best • Stephen Clark Gary Francione • Gill Langley Mary Midgley • Tom Regan Bernard Rollin • Richard Ryder Henry Salt • Peter Singer Steven Wise • Roger Yates Notable groups/campaigns List of animal rights groups Animal Aid • ALDF • ALF • BUAV GAP • Hunt Saboteurs • PETA • PCRM Sea Shepherd • SPEAK • SHAC Issues Animal liberation movement Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Animal law • Animal testing Bile bear • Blood sport Covance • Draize test Factory farming • Fur trade Great Ape research ban • HLS Lab animal sources • LD50 Meat • Nafovanny • Open rescue Operation Backfire • Primate trade Seal hunting • Speciesism Cases Britches • Brown Dog affair Cambridge • Pit of despair Silver Spring monkeys Unnecessary Fuss Films Animal rights films Behind the Mask • Earthlings The Animals Film Peaceable Kingdom • Unnecessary Fuss Books and magazines Animal rights books Animal rights magazines Animal Liberation Arkangel • Bite Back No Compromise Related categories ALF • Animal testing Animal law • Animal rights AR movement Livestock • Meat Poultry Related templates  •  • This box:

Contents 1 Organizations 1.1 Animal rights organizations 1.2 Movements/campaigns focused on animal testing 1.2.1 Ongoing movements/campaigns 1.2.2 Historical campaigns 1.3 Groups focused on bloodsports 1.4 Vegan/vegetarian-oriented groups 1.5 Groups focused on farm animals 1.6 Prisoner support groups 2 Leaderless resistance movements, campaigns and organizations 2.1 Broadly-focused movements, campaigns and organizations 2.2 Movements/campaigns focused on hunting 2.3 Movements/campaigns focused on animal testing 2.3.1 Ongoing movements/campaigns 2.3.2 Successful campaigns 3 References 4 See also

Organizations

Animal rights organizations

• AnimaNaturalis
• (ASPCA against animal cruelty)
• Animal Aid (UK)
• Animal Defense League (ADL)
• Animal Equality
• Animal Liberation Leagues
• Animal Liberation Press Office
• Animal Rights Organization Fauna
• Anonymous for Animal Rights
• Center on Animal Liberation Affairs (CALA)
• Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT)
• Compassion Over Killing (COK)
• Equanimal
• Friends of Animals (FoA)
• In Defense of Animals (IDA)
• International Primate Protection League (IPPL)
• Libera!
• Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition (MARC)
• National Resource Defense Council (NRDC)
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
• Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
• Southern Animal Rights Coalition (SARC)
• Western Animal Rights Network (WARN)
• World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)
• Uncaged Campaigns

Movements/campaigns focused on animal testing

Ongoing movements/campaigns

• Americans For Medical Advancement
• British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV)
• Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
• Dr Hadwen Trust
• Great Ape Project
• National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS)
• Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
• Primate Freedom Project
• Rocky Mountain Animal Defense
• SPEAK
• Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)
• Stop Sequani Animal Testing (SSAT)
• Stop Wickham Animal Testing (SWAT)

Historical campaigns

• Consort Beagles Campaign
• Save the Goats
• Save the Hill Grove Cats
• Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs
• Save the Shamrock Monkeys

Groups focused on bloodsports

• CAS International
• Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA)

Vegan/vegetarian-oriented groups

• Movement for Compassionate Living (MCL)
• Vegan Outreach
• Vegan Society
• Vegetarian Society
• Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals (Viva!)
• Veggies Catering Campaign
• Ulove! The United Liberation of Vegetarian Ethics (Ulove)

Groups focused on farm animals

• Farm Sanctuary
• Farm USA
• United Poultry Concerns (UPC)

Prisoner support groups

• Arkangel
• Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group (ALFSG UK)
• Bite Back
• Earth Liberation Prisoner Support Network (ELPSN)
• No Compromise
• Vegan Prisoners Support Group (VPSG)

Leaderless resistance movements, campaigns and organizations

Broadly-focused movements, campaigns and organizations

• Animal Liberation Front (ALF)
• Animal Rights Militia (ARM)
• Justice Department
• Lobster Liberation Front (LLF)
• Southern Animal Rights Coalition (SARC)
• Western Animal Rights Network (WARN)

Movements/campaigns focused on hunting

• Hunt Retribution Squad (HRS)
• Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA)

Movements/campaigns focused on animal testing

Ongoing movements/campaigns

• Oxford Arson Squad
• Revolutionary Cells - Animal Liberation Brigade (RCALB)
• Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)
• Stop Sequani Animal Testing (SSAT)
• Stop Wickham Animal Testing (SWAT)

Successful campaigns

• Consort Beagles Campaign
• Save the Goats
• Save the Hill Grove Cats
• Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs
• Save the Shamrock Monkeys

References

See also

• Animal rights
• Veganism
• List of animal welfare groups
• List of environmental organizations
• Animal welfare

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