Securing a better future for all animals and their habitats through community advocacy, education, and legal guidance.
Driving Change for Animal Welfare
Advocacy-Led Initiatives
Working alongside advocates defending animals and their habitats at the local level.
Student Advocacy Programs
Offering experiential learning opportunities in animal and environmental law and policy.
Research and Policy Analysis
Developing work product that informs and strengthens advocacy initiatives.
Our Initiatives
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WildRights
WildRights™ is Defend Them All’s initiative to confront a persistent imbalance in law and policy: decisions that profoundly affect animals and their habitats are routinely made without independent representation of the animals themselves. We work toward legal systems that require animals to be adequately represented when decisions affecting them are at stake.
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Rodenticide-Free Advocacy
Rodenticides, or rat poisons, are toxic chemicals used in pest control. While designed to target rats and mice, they harm countless animal species—from mountain lions and birds of prey to amphibians, family pets and even humans. Our the Rodenticide-Free Initiative is working to eliminate these cruel and ineffective products and promote safer, more effective alternatives to managing “pests.”
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Dog Welfare Watch
For generations, much of our collective effort has focused on responding after dogs are already in crisis. Rescue, sheltering, adoption, and enforcement against serious cruelty are vital, but they cannot, on their own, address the conditions that allow harm to continue. Dog Welfare Watch is Defend Them All’s initiative to examine the laws, policies, institutional practices, human behaviors, incentives, and resource gaps that contribute to poor welfare in the first place and to identify practical, lasting ways to improve dogs’ lives.
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Donkeys Deserve Beter
Defend Them All works with advocates and organizations seeking stronger protections for donkeys in law, policy, education, and public advocacy. Through this initiative, we examine the conditions affecting working and domesticated donkeys, the global donkey skin trade, gaps in existing legal frameworks, and the need for humane alternatives to products made from donkey hide.
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Ocean Species in Focus
Among the biggest threats to our ocean species are overfishing, climate change, and commercial and urban development. Defend Them All is working to ensure protections for our ocean species by petitioning for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Advocacy Services
Professional support for animal and environmental advocacy.
We help advocates and organizations protect animals and their habitats through research, policy analysis, strategy, and communications. Revenue from these services helps support our pro bono initiatives.
