UniverSoul Circus goes animal-free!

UniverSoul Circus goes animal-free!

After a decade of protesting outside UniverSoul Circus in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, we can finally hang up our costumes! The circus has gone animal-free! Thank you to our friends at PETA and everyone who joined us over the years!  As a guardianship lawyer, my...
Hempstead pledges to protect Monk parakeets

Hempstead pledges to protect Monk parakeets

After veterinarian Greg Nelson witnessed contractors with the Town of Hempstead removing Monk parakeet, also known as Quacker parrot, nests from light posts at Merrick Road Park and removing the current light system that provided both a platform for nest-building and...
Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act is signed into law!

Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act is signed into law!

Governor Hochul has signed the Cruelty Free Cosmetics Act, ending the manufacture and sale of cosmetic products in New York State that have been tested on animals starting in January 2023!  Thanks to Assembly Member Linda B. Rosenthal, Senator Alessandra Biaggi, and...
Bellmore Street Festival bans animal acts

Bellmore Street Festival bans animal acts

Following a spirited protest by members of Humane Long Island and PETA against animal exhibitor Wild World of Animals at the Bellmore Street Festival, the Chamber of Commerce of the Bellmores in New York agreed not to host animal acts again at the fair or any of its...
Live slaughter market denied in Islip

Live slaughter market denied in Islip

Following a nearly year-long campaign that included spirited protests, testimonies at town board meetings, an urgent letter to town officials, and documenting dead and dying birds outside the applicant’s existing Queens slaughterhouse, the Islip Zoning Board of...
Northport Fire Department bans animals acts

Northport Fire Department bans animals acts

When LION heard that the Banana Derby—a cruel monkey rodeo where monkeys are chained to dogs and raced around a track—was coming to the Northport Firemen’s Fair, we pleaded with the Fire Department to cancel the act and protested when our messages were not...
New York City bans wild animals in circuses

New York City bans wild animals in circuses

For years, LION led protests calling on New Yorkers to stay away from UniverSoul Circus, the now-defunct Ringling Bros. circus, and other traveling shows that use and abuse elephants, tigers, and other wild animals—and the New York City Council has now prohibited all...