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 | Jul 9, 2024 | Media Exposé
The New York Times published a cover story about activists sounding the alarm about the harmful effects of Sloth Encounters, featuring our victory shutting down Sloth Encounters in Hauppauge. Days later, it published a letter to the editor by Humane Long Island...
by John Di Leonardo | Jun 24, 2024 | Media Exposé
Humane Long Island is featured in a Newsday investigation revealing rising deaths and mass injuries at the home of the Belmont Stakes. “’New York needs to let this cruel industry either stand on its own or die, like the more than 30 horses who were killed at...
by John Di Leonardo | Jan 14, 2024 | Media Exposé
The feathered remains of pheasants were strewn along a stretch of Sunrise Highway about a half mile from the edge of Otis Pike Preserve in Manorville earlier this month. Every 15 or 20 feet a disembodied wing, leg, striped tail feathers, coppery chest feathers and...
