by John Di Leonardo | Dec 29, 2024 | Media Exposé
Some lawmakers hope to end a program that is meant to introduce children to field sports but that critics say makes the birds easy targets, if they don’t die another way. Read our exposé of the DEC’s canned pheasant hunting program in The New York...
by John Di Leonardo | Dec 24, 2024 | Media Exposé
Our campaign to save the animals suffering at Town of Brookhaven’s Holtsville Ecology Site is on the cover of Newsday the second day in a row!
by John Di Leonardo | Dec 23, 2024 | Media Exposé
A Newsday investigation reveals conversations with seven former Holtsville Ecology Site & Animal Preserve employees describing “abysmal” enclosures, unlicensed medical procedures, and extreme neglect at the taxpayer-funded facility where Honey — a...
by John Di Leonardo | Sep 9, 2024 | Media Exposé
John Di Leonardo, executive director of Humane Long Island, an animal advocacy group, and a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, sometimes rescues abandoned or escaped birds, or receives them from markets as a good-will gesture. “Every single bird we get is deathly ill,...
by John Di Leonardo | Aug 16, 2024 | Arrests
Following a Humane Long Island protest demanding jail-time, a Hempstead man convicted of fatally kicking a 4-pound Yorkie during an argument with the dog’s owners will spend 2 weeks behind bars but avoid a felony conviction, a judge ordered at a Thursday sentencing. A...
