List of animal rights groups

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Contents 1 Organizations 1.1 Broadly-focused national and international groups 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 2.4 Movements/campaigns that advocate violence 3 See also

[edit] Organizations

[edit] Broadly-focused national and international groups

• Animal Aid (UK)
• Animal Defenders International (ADI)
• Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF)
• Animal Liberation Leagues
• Animal Liberation Press Office
• Animal liberty
• Born Free Foundation
• Center on Animal Liberation Affairs (CALA)
• The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT)
• Compassion Over Killing (COK)
• Friends of Animals (FoA)
• In Defense of Animals (IDA)
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
• Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
• Uncaged Campaigns
• Vegan Society
• Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals (Viva!)
• Western Animal Rights Network (WARN)

[edit] Movements/campaigns focused on animal testing

[edit] 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
• SPEAK
• Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)
• Uncaged Campaigns
• Stop Sequani Animal Testing (SSAT)
• Stop Wickham Animal Testing (SWAT)

[edit] Historical campaigns

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

[edit] Groups focused on bloodsports

• Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA)

[edit] Vegan/vegetarian-oriented groups

• Movement for Compassionate Living (MCL)
• Vegan Outreach
• Vegan Society
• Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals (Viva!)
• Vegetarian Society
• Veggies Catering Campaign

[edit] Groups focused on farm animals

• Farm Sanctuary
• United Poultry Concerns (UPC)
• Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals (Viva!)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Leaderless resistance movements, campaigns and organizations

Main article: Leaderless resistance in animal rights

[edit] Broadly-focused movements, campaigns and organizations

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

[edit] Movements/campaigns focused on hunting

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

[edit] Movements/campaigns focused on animal testing

[edit] Ongoing movements/campaigns

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

[edit] Successful campaigns

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

[edit] Movements/campaigns that advocate violence

• Animal Rights Militia (ARM)
• Justice Department
• Hunt Retribution Squad (HRS)
• Revolutionary Cells - Animal Liberation Brigade (RCALB)

[edit] See also

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