From California to Gorontalo, Indonesia, wins for animals were everywhere in 2025. As we look ahead to what is possible in 2026, let us also take a moment to celebrate the monumental compassionate changes advocates like you ushered in over the past twelve months. The Dog and Cat Meat Trade The fight for dogs and […]

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This campaign is a collaborative effort by Unchained Dog Rescue and Lady Freethinker. For 12 long years, a dog named Scooby spent his life chained outside in northern Portugal. Emaciated, covered in raw, bleeding skin from severe mange, and burdened by a massive tumor, he survived only on the occasional meal of dried fish bones. […]

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When animals suffer or face exploitation, they depend on us to take action to protect them. One simple, powerful way you can do that is by speaking out against cruelty, which is why Lady Freethinker provides petitions you can sign to call for justice and change. It’s in this spirit that we share with you […]

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PETITION TARGET: Government Officials and Lawmakers of North Sulawesi Dogs with seeping wounds packed tightly into rusty cages—trembling, emaciated, and forced to watch as others were bludgeoned with iron bars and blowtorched directly in front of them: this is the nightmare seen in the live animal markets of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, as documented in a […]

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Monkeys sexually abused in disturbing exploitation videos; puppies forced into the deadly grip of pythons — this heinous content is available worldwide on social media, where even vulnerable children can view it. How can we stop the cruelty — and ensure that it’s not viewed by others? Report it! Reporting online cruelty may seem like […]

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Lady Freethinker (U.S.) and Action for Primates (U.K.) applaud the jail sentence handed to a U.S. individual convicted of Conspiracy to Create and Distribute Animal Crushing Videos. Maryland man Drexel Venero, who had pleaded guilty to the charges, has received an 18-month sentence with 3 years’ supervised release. Venero sent out a “wish list” of […]

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Wild horses across the United States need your help! Please join Lady Freethinker for a week of online action from April 28-May 4 to urge the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to stop deadly helicopter roundups – where terrified wild horses are often injured, killed, or separated from their families as they’re chased into corrals […]

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Social media giant Meta is under renewed scrutiny for allowing – and even rewarding – monkey torture content on its platform, Facebook.  For weeks, Facebook failed to remove disturbing videos of macaque monkeys (usually infants) being drowned, slapped, and choked – and the platform even awarded an account with violent content captions like “monkey suffocates, […]

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Lady Freethinker (LFT) and Action for Primates (AfP) welcome the prison sentence of 20 months given to Peter Stanley at Liverpool Crown Court, after he pleaded guilty to charges under the Obscene Publications Act for distributing monkey torture videos on Facebook. The videos posted online by Stanley depicted extreme violence and sexual abuse inflicted upon […]

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Luna and Garina were two helpless, infant monkeys held by the same captor. They were ruthlessly tormented, endured extreme cruelty, and were ultimately killed on social media, as exposed in a new report from Lady Freethinker and Action for Primates. Multiple videos of their short, agonizing lives have been posted for “entertainment” on at least […]

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The William J. von Liebig Foundation has presented the third annual von Liebig Prize winner for significant accomplishments in animal welfare activism and change to Lady Freethinker Founder and President Nina Jackel. The $25,000 prize aims to support individuals facilitating meaningful change in their community by making a significant impact through their hard work in […]

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Animal protection groups Lady Freethinker and Action for Primates have welcomed the prosecution of Wisconsin resident Kenneth Herrera – whom the groups first identified to law enforcement in 2021 – for paying a video operator in Indonesia to brutally torture a baby macaque on camera. The federal animal crushing charge was detailed in a plea […]

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PETITION TARGET: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov This is a joint campaign by Lady Freethinker and Action for Primates. Sadistic streams of videos featuring baby monkeys skinned alive, sealed in jars with boiling liquid, and blown apart by fireworks forced down their throats continue to run rampant on social media, especially Telegram, a popular encrypted messaging […]

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Lady Freethinker and Action for Primates have written to the Attorney General in Malaysia, appealing to him to reconsider a decision not to take action over the horrific torture and killing of baby monkeys on camera for online ‘entertainment’. Footage of the cruelty filmed in Malaysia includes some of the most horrifying and sadistic abuse […]

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Lady Freethinker and Action for Primates have welcomed action taken by the authorities in Cambodia that has resulted in the confiscation of 13 pig-tailed and long-tailed macaques. The macaques had been illegally poached from the wild as infants and kept captive as ‘pets’ in human households. They were seized in accordance with the country’s wildlife […]

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Lady Freethinker has a new logo — but we’re the same LFT you’ve always known, dedicated to fighting for animals around the world! Thanks to YOU, we have been changing the world for animals for nearly a decade now, and our new logo reflects what we, together, are achieving as we work to end animal […]

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In the YouTube video, tiny infant macaques dressed in colorful, doll-like outfits sit fidgeting adorably in a row as their keeper puts rice cakes in front of them, chiding the animals when they reach to nibble before her command. Similar videos from other channels show clothed “pet” monkeys “dancing,” spinning in circles and playing with […]

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PETITION TARGETS: Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) Prime Minister Hun Sen; Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) Minister Veng Sakhon; and Minister of Environment H.E. Say Samal UPDATE (8/30/2022) In a promising development, Cambodian authorities have confiscated at least 13 macaques following LFT’s investigation. You can read more about that development here.  We’ll keep fighting for all […]

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