Projects tagged "Animal Rights"

Greenpeace asks Nestle to Have a Break
Practitioner:
Greenpeace USA
Date:
Mar 17 2010
Greenpeace released a video to spread the word that Nestle, the maker of Kit Kat, was using palm oil purchased from companies that are destroying the Indonesian rainforest and pushing orangutans towards extinction. The video, which features a guy opening a Kit Kat at work, pulling out an orangutan finger and taking a bite, shocked hundreds of thousands of viewers. The Greenpeace campaign against Nestle was a success.
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Bed-Stuy Fish Pond
Practitioner:
Hajj Lovick
Date:
Jul 30 2024
The Bed-Stuy Aquarium (also known as the Hancock Street Bed-Stuy Aquarium) is a makeshift goldfish pond located on a sidewalk in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City. The pond, originally formed by a puddle from a leaky fire hydrant, garnered attention from locals and the press beginning at the time of its creation in August 2024.
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Fur Free
Practitioner:
International Anti-Fur Coalition
Date:
Feb 5 2010
Anti-Fur advocates have been protesting through demonstrations for decades, throwing red paint on women wearing fur coats, passing out leaflets and sporting the slogan “Fur Is Dead” on t-shirts and stickers and spray-painting it on buildings in cities throughout the globe.
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Melting Panthers
Practitioner:
Bob Partington, CLEO Institute
Date:
Sep 27 2020
American artist Bob Partington created a wax sculpture of a Florida panther and her cub to display at a nonprofit zoo in Tampa, Florida this September. When it debuted, the sculpture looked like nothing special. But as the wax began to melt under the heat of the sun, the bodies of the endangered species started to disintegrate. Within a couple days, the mother panther’s melting body revealed a simple message: “More heat, less wildlife.”
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Join The Pack
Practitioner:
Emily Kelley
Date:
Jan 16 2016
Grey wolves have had a tumultuous relationship with their human neighbors in the Pacific Northwest for more than a hundred years. From nearly being wiped out from the continent, Canadian grey wolves started being reintroduced to the wilderness in the U.S.'s Northern Rockies as early as 1995. The wolves were (and continue to be) placed in areas dense with wilderness and potential prey.
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BeeCare Amsterdam
Practitioner:
Hans Kalliwoda
Date:
Jan 1 2011
The survival of bees in the world is threatened and the extinction of bees is a serious threat to the human race too. Over the past few years, it seems that bees have a greater chance of survival in cities than in rural areas where they are heavily threatened by pesticides used in agriculture. For this reason, this project aims to create a safety area, as a sort of haven for all species of bees on a roof in Staatsliedenbuurt in Amsterdam.
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Civil disobedience in support of animals to progress social change
Practitioner:
The University of Melbourne
Date:
May 10 2013
By Dr. S. O'Sullivan and C. McCausland
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Sunaura Taylor
Practitioner:
Sunaura Taylor
Date:
May 26 2015
Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist. Through painting, printmaking, writing and other forms of political and artistic engagement her work intervenes with dominant historical narratives of disability and animal oppression. Taylor's artworks have been exhibited at venues across the country, including the CUE Art Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution and the Berkeley Art Museum.
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Bold Native
Practitioner:
Gather Films
Date:
May 10 2012
By Loredana Loy
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Inside Out Project
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Mar 2 2011
After winning the TED Prize on March 2, 2011, the French-artist JR launched the Inside Out Project, in his first TED Talk. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, this participatory platform helps individuals and communities to make a statement by displaying large-scale black and white portraits in public spaces. Through their “Actions,” communities around the world have sparked collaborations and conversations.
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A Homeless Polar Bear In London
Practitioner:
greenpeace - savethearctic.org along with Radiohead and Jude Law
Date:
Feb 12 2012
With Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place" as the soundscape, Jude Law narrates in this powerfully sad little video clip created in collaboration with Greenpeace. Please visit savethearctic.org and sign the petition.
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Sirens of the Lambs
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Oct 10 2013
Sirens of the Lambs is created by the enigmatic street artist, Banksy. This piece was first spotted on the streets of New York City on October 10, 2013, it went viral on social media and people are posting and reposting about it. Sirens of the Lambs is a truck full of stuffed animals – plush cows, chickens, pigs, lambs, bears – that first appeared in the Meatpacking neighborhood of NYC.
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LUSH Launches Massive Campaign to End Shark Slaughter on World Oceans Day
Practitioner:
LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics
Date:
Jun 6 2019
Vegan-friendly cosmetics brand LUSH is launching the “Shark Attack” campaign to save sharks from slaughter on World Oceans Day (June 8). Starting today, LUSH will re-launch its popular vegan Shark Fin Soap online (available in-store starting June 8) and donate 100 percent of the $5.95 sales price to The Rob Stewart Sharkwater Foundation, an organization created to continue the work of late ocean conservationist and filmmaker Rob Stewart.
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Seaspiracy
Practitioner:
Ali Tabrizi
Date:
Mar 24 2021
"Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species - and uncovers alarming global corruption."
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Orca whale light/drone performance in Russia
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Feb 17 2023
A performance in support of a bill banning the catch of cetaceans for cultural and educational purposes in Russia. The bill was supposed to pass readings in the lower house of parliament but unfortunately it was postponed; this activity is meant to help generate support for it to pass. The action was timed to coincide with the World Whale and Dolphin Day (Feb 19).
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Animal activists celebrate as Lawrence blocks chicken art project
Practitioner:
United Poultry Concerns
Date:
Feb 29 2012
February 29, 2012 The Kansas City Star By Jessica Blakeborough The chickens have been granted a stay of execution. City codes prevent Amber Hansen, a Lawrence artist, from displaying and then butchering chickens for an art project, a city official says. And that has animal activists rejoicing.
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Swift Project
Practitioner:
DodoLab
Date:
May 13 2013
"Since the progress of civilization in our country has furnished thousands of convenient places for this Swallow to breed in, safe from storms, snakes, or quadrupeds, it has abandoned, with a judgment worthy of remark, its former abodes in the hollows of trees, and taken possession of the chimneys which emit no smoke in the summer season." John James Audubon, The Chimney Swallow (or American Swift, Chimney Swift, Chaotura Pelasgia), from The O
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Street Art Project Uses Building Facades to Spread the Word About 314 Endangered Bird Species
Practitioner:
Audonon Mural Project
Date:
Jan 1 2016
In a visually captivating public art venture, the Audonon Mural Project seeks to raise awareness for species of birds threatened by climate change in a rather unconventional way—street art. A collaboration between the National Audubon Society and Gitler &_____ Gallery, scatterings of stunning avian themed murals are cropping up throughout John James Audubon’s old Manhattan neighbourhood.
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Seaspiracy
Practitioner:
Ali Tabrizi
Date:
Mar 25 2021
"Seaspiracy, a documentary-styled film released on Netflix this week, intends to shock, and on that count it succeeds.
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Activists make a dramatic statement about the slaughter of dolphins
Practitioner:
Taiji Dolphin Action Group
Date:
Jan 30 2014
An Israeli member of the Taiji Dolphin Action Group, with a red body painting to evoke blood, is curled up on a sheet depicting the Japanese flag, during a January 30, 2014 protest against the killing of dolphins, notably in the Japanese city of Taiji, held outside the building housing the Japanese Embassy, Tel Aviv. Similar rallies outside Japanese consulates and embassies were expected to take place worldwide.
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Climate-Noah's Ark
Practitioner:
Gad Weil
Date:
Sep 19 2015
On September 19,2015 in Paris, 140 animals sailed up the River Seine to bring awareness to climate change, ahead of the COP21 UN meeting in December. French artist Gad Weil created this pop art piece from fully recyclable acrylic sheets, and installed the animals on top of a barge in front of the Eiffel Tower.
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ALV Rooftop protest draws international coverage
Practitioner:
Animal Liberation Victoria
Date:
May 4 2011
QUESTION: Year after year, decade after decade, you alert the legal authorities to cruelty violations and suffering animals in peril, yet nothing ever happens. You know for a fact there are thousands of screaming and suffering hens inside a factory farm and you know the authorities will once again turn a blind eye, so what do you do? 


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We Animals
Practitioner:
Jo-Anne McArthur
Date:
May 11 2012
We Animals is an ambitious project which documents, through photography, animals in the human environment. Humans are as much animal as the sentient beings we use for food, clothing, research, experimentation, work, entertainment, slavery and companionship. With this as its premise, We Animals aims to break down the barriers that humans have built which allow us to treat nonhuman animals as objects and not as beings with moral significance.
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The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.
Practitioner:
Thomas Deininger
Date:
Mar 17 2025
“Works in Progress” highlights artists across a range of disciplines whose work deals with ecological themes. Considering the particular role that artists play in the climate movement, this column shares their voices and provides a glimpse behind the curtain into their creative processes and experiences.
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Cruelty Cutter App
Practitioner:
Rescue Freedom Project
Date:
Jan 5 2018
Cruelty-Cutter is cruelty-free shopping made simple! Cast away any doubts when purchasing items by using Cruelty-Cutter to scan an item and have an immediate response about its animal testing status. Share your results with friends on social media and also share your concern or praise with the company itself. Companies that still choose to test on animals will get the message that Cruelty-Cutter users are against what they are doing!
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