News and Alerts

DJ Schubert, Wildlife Biologist and ADLA Board Member, recently submitted comments on the National Park Service’s Bison Herd Reduction Environmental Assessment. Comments were submitted to NPS on behalf of ADLA, Animal Welfare Institute, and Humane Society of the United States, stating that the groups “strongly encourage the National Park Service to reconsider its strategies for bison […]

Animals need your help on Independence Day! Would you be willing to spare an hour to help protect animals and voter rights? The Voters of Arizona referendum campaign urgently needs volunteers to collect petition signatures to stop two bills damaging to animals and citizen initiative rights. The deadline to turn in petitions is less than six […]

The Good With your support, Animal Defense League of Arizona and its partners with the Humane Legislative Coalition of Arizona (HLCA) successfully led efforts to pass the Spay Neuter Act and the Samaritan Hot Car Law. These bills will soon become state law and benefit animals throughout Arizona. The Bad In the 2017 session the […]

Governor Ducey has signed the Good Samaritan Hot Car Bill into law! HB 2494 passed the Arizona House on the final day of the session by a vote of 35-20-5. It had previously passed the Senate 20-7-3.The measure aims to end hot-car deaths and allows good Samaritans to take action without risk of civil liability […]

We are pleased to report that Spay Neuter Bill – HB 2523 passed the Arizona Legislature and was signed into law by Governor Ducey! This will allow Arizona residents to make a voluntary contribution through the tax check-off program to fund much-needed affordable spay/neuter services throughout Arizona. Monies raised via this voluntary check off program […]

We need your help today to pass a bill in the AZ Legislature that would raise funds for spay neuter services statewide. HB 2523, sponsored by Rep. Drew John, would raise much-needed funding for spay neuter services through voluntary tax check offs. We just learned that the full AZ House of Representatives may vote on […]

We need your help to stop a slew of bills in the Arizona Legislature that are aimed at dismantling our state’s public initiative and referendum process. These measures, if passed, would devastate citizen initiative campaigns. One measure (HCR 2002) could even enable the Legislature to overturn animal protection laws already passed by voters. Many of you […]

The Arizona State Legislature is in session and ADLA volunteers are working to pass animal protection bills and to kill damaging legislation. ADLA is a member of the Humane Legislative Coalition of Arizona, which has sponsored a measure that would strengthen our state animal cruelty law and correct longstanding loopholes that make prosecution of animal […]

Legislation Introduced to Protect Good Samaritans from Civil Liability, Raise Awareness of Dangers of Hot Cars In his recent State of the State Address, Gov. Doug Ducey joined Arizona’s leading animal-welfare organizations and pledged his support of SB 1001, a bill that aims to end hot-car deaths and allows Good Samaritans to take action without […]

  This Holiday Season you can help ADLA save twice as many animals! All gifts (up to $10,00) will be matched by  a group of anonymous donors! When you donate to ADLA you can be assured thatover 90% of each dollar you donate goes directly to program services. Learn more about the successes you made […]

Check out ADLA’s latest newsletter on Fall for Felines and upcoming events!

ADLA and other groups are working on a campaign opposing Dolphinaris, a swim-with-dolphins enclosure under development in Scottsdale. The facility will house eight or more dolphins and is set to open in July. As opposed to their natural wide-range ocean habitat, these intelligent, social marine mammals will be forced to live out their lives in […]