List of animal rights groups

List of animal rights groups

Organizations

Broadly-focused national and international groups

* Animal Aid (UK)
* Animal Liberation Leagues
* Animal Liberation Press Office
* Animal liberty
* Center on Animal Liberation Affairs (CALA)
* Anonymous for Animal Rights
* The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT)
* Compassion Over Killing (COK)
* Friends of Animals (FoA)
* The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)
* In Defense of Animals (IDA)
* People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
* Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
* Uncaged Campaigns
* Vegan Society
* Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals (Viva!)
* Western Animal Rights Network (WARN)

Movements/campaigns focused on animal testing

Ongoing movements/campaigns

* Americans For Medical Advancement
* British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV)
* Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
* Dr Hadwen Trust
* Great Ape Project
* National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS)
* Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
* Primate Freedom Project
* Rocky Mountain Animal Defense
* SPEAK
* Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)
* Stop Sequani Animal Testing (SSAT)
* Stop Wickham Animal Testing (SWAT)

Historical campaigns

* Consort Beagles Campaign
* Save the Goats
* Save the Hill Grove Cats
* Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs
* Save the Shamrock Monkeys

Groups focused on bloodsports

* Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA)

Vegan/vegetarian-oriented groups

* Movement for Compassionate Living (MCL)
* Vegan Outreach
* Vegetarian Society
* Veggies Catering Campaign

Groups focused on farm animals

* Farm Sanctuary
* United Poultry Concerns (UPC)

Prisoner support groups

* Arkangel
* Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group (ALFSG UK)
* Bite Back
* Earth Liberation Prisoner Support Network (ELPSN)
* No Compromise
* Vegan Prisoners Support Group (VPSG)

Leaderless resistance movements, campaigns and organizations

:"Main article: Leaderless resistance in animal rights"

Broadly-focused movements, campaigns and organizations

* Animal Liberation Front (ALF)
* Animal Rights Militia (ARM)
* Justice Department
* Lobster Liberation Front (LLF)
* Southern Animal Rights Coalition (SARC)

Movements/campaigns focused on hunting

* Hunt Retribution Squad (HRS)
* Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA)

Movements/campaigns focused on animal testing

Ongoing movements/campaigns

* Oxford Arson Squad
* Revolutionary Cells - Animal Liberation Brigade (RCALB)
* Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)
* Stop Sequani Animal Testing (SSAT)
* Stop Wickham Animal Testing (SWAT)

uccessful campaigns

* Consort Beagles Campaign

See also

* Animal rights
* Veganism
* List of animal welfare groups
* List of environmental organizations
* Animal welfare


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