February 08, 2023 Clinic Jane Goodall Among 380+ Scientists Demanding End to ‘Cruel’ Harvard Monkey Experiments
n a letter led by Harvard Law School's Animal Law & Policy Clinic and the Wild Minds Lab at the University of St. Andrews School of Psychology and Neuroscience in the United Kingdom, 380 signatories urge senior National Institutes of Health officials to "review the protocols and justifications" related to the "funding of unethical experiments on macaque monkeys and other non-human primates taking place at Harvard Medical School."
January 24, 2023 Clinic Cephalopods are ‘incredibly intelligent.’ Wildlife advocates are urging regulators to do more to protect them.
As more studies reveal the intelligence of cephalopods and explore their perceptions of pain, wildlife advocates have pressed regulators to do more to protect them and require that researchers abide by the same rules they must follow when experimenting on vertebrates.
January 20, 2023 Clinic Grizzly bear recovery plan can’t be targeted in lawsuit – appeals court
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling Thursday against the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed suit after the department’s Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) denied its petition to add several new areas in the western U.S. as potential recovery-zone habitats for the threatened grizzly.
December 15, 2022 Clinic Countries meet to save nature and wildlife. These 17 Southeastern turtles got a win.
Ben Rankin is a student attorney with Harvard Animal Law and Policy Clinic. He helps file complaints against the USFWS after the agency failed to respond to a public records request for the LEMIS data.