Below is a list of relevant websites with information about animal protection in Asia, dog and cat welfare and care, and opportunities for animal rights activism. Though we realize many other animals around the world suffer daily, we’ve primarily focused our resource list on IAKA-related topics.

Topics:

• Animal Welfare Organizations
• Animal Information/Resources
• Activism and Petition Sites
• Vegetarianism and Related
  

Animal Welfare Organizations

English-language websites

 Animal Rescue Crusade fundraises for animal organizations and is helping to spread awareness to end animal cruelty.

Animal Rescue Korea: A Korean-based animal rescue network. ARK’s website hosts a forum for posting adoption listings in South Korea, a directory of veterinary clinics in South Korea, and many more rescue-related resources.

National Humane Education Society: Begun in 1948, NHES’s mission is to cultivate kindness to animals in children and adults through education and foster and adoption programs.

Seoul Searching: An online magazine with a section dedicated to continuous investigative work into the Korean dog and cat meat industries. The site includes videos, photographs, and in-depth articles on companion animal meat trades in South Korea.

Animal Information & Resources

Animal World News: An animal news archive.

Animals Voice: An award-winning, independent networking resource that delivers animal rights news, including action alerts for campaigns, boycotts, and petitions.

Brute Ethics: An online encyclopedia of animal ethics.

Coops And Cages™: provide quality pet housing products for loving homes.

Petfinder: A database of adoption listings from shelters and rescue groups across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

Pet Promise: A line of quality, natural pet food products supporting sustainable livestock and eco-friendly, humane, family farming.

Pet Rescue: is a non-profit organization that helps rescue pets from shelters and find adopting homes for them.

World Animal Net Directory: The world’s largest database of animal protection societies, with over 17,000 listings and more than 10,000 links.

Vegetarianism & Related

Downbound: Downbound.com is an online store providing products that are animal friendly (vegan), worker friendly (fair trade and non-sweatshop), and environmentally friendly (organic when possible). The wide range of products offered include clothing, shoes, cat and dog food, cosmetics, sweets, nutritional supplements, and much more.

Happy Cow: Happy Cow provides a searchable directory of vegetarian restaurants and natural health food stores around the globe. The site also includes nutrition and health tips, vegan and raw food recipes, and other vegan and vegetarian lifestyle news.

Vegetarian Korea: An English-language site compiling and reviewing vegetarian restaurants in Korea.

Activism and Petition Sites

Care 2: An online community, boasting over 5 million members, dedicated to grassroots campaigns for every cause imaginable.

E the People: A public forum for democratic and deliberative discussion. The site hosts petitions, polls and discussions, and provides a forum for contacting U.S. representatives.

The Petition Site: A division of Care 2 where you can view, sign and create petitions for an array of issues.