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Civics: Action Project

Databases

Keywords to consider:

  • "animal control"
  • "emotional support enimals"
  • "animal advocacy"
  • "urban wildlife"
  • specific animals, e.g. dogs, cats, rats, or deer

Use quotation marks to limit results to exact phrases.  You can also add in geographic keywords like "Alexandria, VA," or  "Northern Virginia," or "Washington, DC," but be aware that doing so may limit your search too much.

March Library databases to search:

Local Media

Alexandria/Arlington:

Washington, DC:

Organizations

  • Animal Veterinary Medical Association
  • Animal Welfare League of Alexandria
    Through adoptions, spay and neuter assistance, education, community service and outreach, the AWLA plays a key role in promoting responsible pet care across Northern Virginia. The AWLA has worked with the City of Alexandria to provide animal care, control, protection and sheltering services since 1989. We operate the Vola Lawson Animal Shelter, an open-admission facility accepting any and all animals brought to us from within the jurisdiction.
  • Humane World for Animals
    Since 1954, we have worked to create a more humane society for animals. Working side by side as the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International, we’ve helped to pass thousands of landmark laws, rescued hundreds of thousands of animals, and cared for and protected millions more.
  • Wildlife in the DC Metro Region

    City Wildlife was created to address the need for wildlife rescue and rehabilitation in Washington, DC. Over the past several decades, urban development has reduced local wildlife habitat and wild animals have had to adapt to living in close proximity with people. Each year, hundreds of wild animals in DC are unintentionally harmed by people and the urban environment.

    Our goals are:

    • To manage a rescue center to assist sick, orphaned, and injured wild animals and return them to the wild;

    • To promote the enjoyment of native wildlife and harmonious co-existence with wild animals; and

    • To protect the District of Columbia’s wild places for animal habitats.