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Don’t miss the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s upcoming webinars — including our
featured webinar on July 23 rd , Protecting Big Cats [[link removed]] ! Secure your spot and register today to learn from the country’s top experts
in animal law.

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Protecting Big Cats – July 23 rd
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Upon the release of Netflix’s Tiger King , Gabriela Cowperthwaite, director of Blackfish, started getting asked a lot of questions from her friends and media outlets.
“Why didn’t Tiger King help big cats?” — Gabriela’s fans wanted her reaction. Joined by a panel of
experts, Gabriela will explore the issue of big cat ownership—and the industry
that exploits them for profit.

Panelists include Animal Legal Defense Fund Staff Attorney Daniel Waltz, Humane
Society of the United States Senior Strategist for Captive Wildlife Lisa Wathne,
Animal Welfare Institute Senior Policy Advisor Kate Dylewsky, Born Free Head of
Animal Welfare & Captivity Chris Draper, and Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge
Vice President Scott Smith.



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How to Advocate for Animals With or Without a Law Degree: Community Organizing
for Farmed Animals – July 16 th
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Farmed animals are exploited at alarming rates, with over nine billion farmed
land animals slaughtered in the U.S. every year. Join Senior Staff Attorney
Cristina Stella as she provides attendees with an inside look at how legal
advocacy and grassroots advocacy work together to create positive change on
behalf of farmed animals.



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Psychology and Sentencing: Mental Health Evaluations for Animal Cruelty
Offenders – July 22 nd
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Join Staff Attorney Kathleen Wood and Criminal Justice Program Fellow Brittany
Hill as they discuss the importance of psychological evaluations, examine
surrounding factors that often contribute to animal cruelty, summarize current
laws mandating psychological evaluations for cruelty offenders, and discuss the
need for more collaboration between mental health professionals and the criminal
justice system.



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COVID-19: Rethinking our Relationship with Animals – July 29 th
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The Animal Legal Defense Fund is developing a series of white papers, which
outline policy strategies to reduce zoonotic disease transmission and risks.
This webinar will provide an overview of the first white paper in the series —
COVID-19 and Animals — which discusses the root causes of zoonotic diseases and
the industries putting the public in the most danger. Specifically, we will
discuss modern food production, including factory farming, which involves
billions of high-risk interactions between humans and animals, as well as
various other human-animal interactions due to the wildlife trade, habitat loss
and human encroachment, and climate change.



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How to Advocate for Animals With or Without a Law Degree: Animals in Criminal
Law – August 6 th
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Although animals are property under the law, they are property unlike any other.
In the context of criminal law, animals can be the victims of crime entitled to
certain statutory protections. At the same time, they are also living evidence.
And, when an animal’s owner is the defendant, the defendant may still have a
property interest in the animal. In this webinar, Senior Staff Attorneys David
Rosengard and Jamie Contreras will discuss animals’ status in the context of
criminal law and how lawyers and nonlawyers alike can effectively advocate for
animals who suffer cruelty.



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Using Local Legislation to Protect Animals: Fur Bans – August 20 th
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Learn how to fight back against the cruel fur industry by passing a fur ban in
your community! Animals farmed for their fur endure horrific abuse before being
killed through gassing, electrocution, neck-breaking, and poisoning. Led by
Animal Legal Defense Fund Campaigns Manager Elizabeth Holtz, this webinar will
walk you through the mechanics of fur production, the policy issues — including
animal cruelty, environmental impacts, and public health, and a round-up of
existing international, state, and local laws prohibiting the sale of fur.

All webinars are available to stream shortly after airing. Check out previously
recorded webinars, including Stress and Zoonotic Diseases and Federal
Legislation: Current Issues & New Ideas, on our website [[link removed]] .

I hope you can join us!

For the animals,

Stephen Wells
Executive Director

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