Environment & Climate Community & Social Justice 2025
Friends of Animals

Friends of Animals Impact Report 2025

Friends of Animals is a US-based international animal rights organisation founded in 1957, running the nation's largest lower-cost spay/neuter programme, the Primarily Primates sanctuary in Texas (300+ residents), a wildlife law programme pursuing landmark federal lawsuits, and community education and advocacy campaigns. In 2025 key achievements include cancellation of a BLM wild horse roundup following an FoA lawsuit, rescuing eight new primates to Primarily Primates, distributing over $35,000 in free spay/neuter certificates to 400 households, removing 15,000+ pounds of trash from a Denver park in a single event, and inspiring comparable horseshoe crab legislation in three additional US states based on FoA's Connecticut model.

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Spay/Neuter programme (nation's largest lower-cost programme, 4 certificate giveaways in 2025); Primarily Primates sanctuary (78 acres, Texas — chimpanzees, spider monkeys, lemurs, macaques, Wildlife Confiscations Network partner); Wildlife Lawsuits (silverspot butterflies, barred owls, cetaceans, wild horses); Legislative Advocacy (horseshoe crab protections in Connecticut modelled by NY, MA, DE; SGAR rodenticide bans; hunting derby opposition); Colorado Cleanup Crew (trash removals at Denver parks and waterways); Education Campaigns (rodenticide 'Think Outside the Bait Box'; black bear coexistence; Colorado wild horse billboard on Highway 36); Anti-hunting derby campaigns Custom geography from upload: USA (headquartered in Darien, Connecticut) with international reach

📊Key Metrics

Nearly 400 households received free spay/neuter certificates worth over $35,000 across Maine, North Carolina and New York; 15,000+ pounds of trash removed from Denver parks and waterways in single July event Key Metric 1
4 chimpanzees, 3 spider monkeys and 1 lemur rescued to Primarily Primates sanctuary in 2025; 300+ animals in residence at 78-acre Texas sanctuary; 7,251 gallons of debris removed from Colorado waterways Key Metric 2
Lawsuits filed against US Fish & Wildlife Service over silverspot butterflies, barred owls and cetaceans; BLM cancelled planned roundup of nearly 2,000 Wyoming wild horses following FoA lawsuit Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Following FoA's Connecticut horseshoe crab ban, New York, Massachusetts and Delaware are pursuing equivalent legislation — demonstrating national policy ripple effect
  • FoA selected to join Wildlife Confiscations Network — first-of-its-kind nationwide programme coordinating care for law enforcement-confiscated wildlife; rodent birth control pilot launched in Fairfield CT with Wisdom Good Works (56% population reduction within 5 months in comparable Boston pilot)
  • 59,622 wild horses now in captivity vs 53,797 roaming free on federal public lands; 1,516 wild horses remain in Colorado on 365,988 acres — FoA billboard campaign highlights meat industry's grip on public lands

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