Deadly Floods in Italy

A worker gathers up surviving chickens at an Italian egg-production facility destroyed by recent flooding. Photo: Selene Magnolia / Essere Animali / We Animals Media

The floods that engulfed parts of Italy last month killed 15 people and tens of thousands of farmed animals. Animals drowned or were crushed as buildings collapsed during landslides.

Among the first photojournalists to arrive at factory farms to cover the disaster were Stefano Belacchi and our 2023 Senior Fellow, Selene Magnolia, both working with Essere Animali to share the plight of farmed animals.

Use These Flood Visuals

Ocean Stories

A green sea turtle hatchling crawls over piles of trash on a beach in an attempt to reach the sea. Mersin Province, Türkiye. Photo: Odysseas Chloridis / We Animals Media

June 8 was World Ocean Day, a United Nations event dedicated to celebrating the ocean and the vital ecosystems it supports. To help people tell the stories of marine animals, we chose our Top Ten Images for World Ocean Day.

Did you know we create special image galleries to help journalists and NGOs? For example, check out our Top Ten Images for World Day For Laboratory Animals, and our photographs of Bird Flu Around the Globe. You can subscribe to our Stock Alerts newsletter to be the first to see new content from our growing collection of 20,000+ high-quality visuals.

Meet Andrew

Left: We Animals Media Contributor, Andrew Skowron, who prefers to keep his appearance anonymous. Photo: Bogna Wiltowska. Right: Maciek, an Arctic fox, takes a bite of his first-ever pear at Psu Braty Polish animal sanctuary. He was rescued from the fur industry by the animal advocacy organization Otwarte Klatki (Open Cages). Photo: Andrew Skowron / We Animals Media

We love translation apps! They allow us to correspond with many of our We Animals contributors. This month, we connected with Polish animal rights photographer Andrew Skowron about how he captures such startling images, and how he has survived so much field work over the years.

“The camera in my hands is a sort of weapon; thanks to it, I can reveal what is invisible to most people – pain in the name of consumerism. But it also gives me a chance to show the few who have survived.” - Andrew Skowron

Read Andrew's Interview

Photo of the Month: Hell and High Water

Extreme weather in Italy left pigs trapped in flood waters for days. At an Italian factory farm, two pigs await their fate. Photo: Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, 2023. Selene Magnolia / Essere Animali / We Animals Media

Our photo of the month features pigs standing nose-to-nose during the recent floods in Italy. What are they thinking and feeling? The soft connection between these individuals – who are likely outdoors for the first time – contrasts the bleak world of murky floodwaters and grim industrial buildings surrounding them.

With your monthly support, we can continue to be first on the scene to report on how non-human animals are impacted by devastating climate catastrophes, and tell the stories that other media are not.

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Wild Horse Roundup

Federal officials rope a wild mustang foal in Nevada after he escaped the helicopter roundup that captured his family moments earlier. Photo: Scott Wilson / We Animals Media

The Bureau of Land Management's annual roundup of wild horses in America's rangeland has become a focal point of controversy and intense debate.

The open range is shrinking, cattle ranchers want more grazing space and horse lovers are grieved to see these iconically fierce and graceful horses captured, separated from their families, branded and sentenced to a life of captivity (or if "adopted" by a kill buyer, to slaughter).

We Animals Media photojournalist Scott Wilson was on the scene to document the roundup in Nevada.

See the Wild Horse Roundup

Meet the Team: Warren

Warren Bowen – Communications Director. Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media

In our ‘Meet the Team’ Q&A series, we introduce you to the wonderful individuals running We Animals Media (WAM). Please meet our fun-loving Communications Director, Warren Bowen.

Get to Know Warren

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In Case You Missed It:

June 14 was the International Awareness Day to Ban Live Exports. Each year, billions of animals are packed into ships and trucks going in one direction only. On their journey they face extreme temperatures, hunger, thirst, disease, exhaustion and collapse.

In this film, join We Animals Media founder Jo-Anne McArthur as she climbs transport trucks, navigates dustry roads and follows animals on their journey to slaughter. The cruel live export trade must end.

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