From the very beginning, the Animal Earth Alliance has been about finding connections. The animals and the earth aren’t two separate causes. The shorebird depends on the beach, the beach depends on the creatures that live along it, and all of us depend on a world that is cared for.

As we get ready to join the March to Abolish Animal Testing in Washington, D.C., next April, I’ve been wondering what it would look like if environmental and conservation groups stood with us. I’ve been learning about horseshoe crabs and the little red knot shorebird, wild monkeys taken from their forests, and safer ways to test chemicals, and it has filled me with hope.

Read the full article on the Animal Earth Alliance blog

Patricia Mikkelson, a resident of the Living Springs Log House, wrote this together with Claude.ai, Anthropic’s AI assistant. Credit: Writing and research support was provided by Claude.ai, an AI assistant made by Anthropic.