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For International Women’s Day, we're putting the focus on women in animal photojournalism and celebrating the hard work of women around the globe who are leading the charge for animals with a camera in hand.

Havva has been relentless in her efforts to document animal stories in each of the seven geographic regions of Turkiye and has created an unparalleled body of work.

On November 29, Canada’s House of Commons passed Bill C-275, a federal ag-gag bill that will criminalize the work of animal photojournalists exposing animal abuse on farms.

Previously unpublished records have revealed new evidence on the extent of the European Union’s role in the controversial long distance transport of farmed animals.

Kanaloa Octopus Farm on the Big Island of Hawaii has now permanently closed following months of pressure from animal advocates, media exposure and legal complaints in the wake of The Every Animal Project’s investigation.

This week, Compassion in World Farming released a detailed report on the spread of bird flu around the globe and the role that industrial animal farming plays. With compelling visuals and insights from We Animals photojournalists throughout, this report takes a deep dive into the hard-hitting facts of our food systems contribution to zoonotic disease risk and spread.

In 2011, our founder Jo-Anne McArthur photographed María González Sola, an activist with Animal Equality, rescuing a distressed hen from a factory farm in Spain. Over a decade later, this photograph and her story appears in National Geographic in an article exploring open rescue and the movement’s history.

A study released this month by Harvard Law School and New York University, featuring visuals from We Animals photojournalists, unveils the extent of zoonotic disease threats from US animal industries.

For We Animals’s 4th anniversary, we’re celebrating 100 contributing photographers from around the globe. To celebrate this milestone we’ve put together a selection of visuals, one from each of our contributors, to give you a sample of the incredible work they’re doing.

On World Press Freedom Day we commemorate the importance of press freedom around the globe and highlight the work of the individuals bringing some of the most critical issues of our time into the public eye.

On March 28, we presented our animal photojournalism to members of the European Parliament as part of a conference, Overhauling EU Farm Animal Welfare Laws.