Humane Education
• ARFF’s Humane Educators reached over 4,000 children at schools and camps all over the state, addressing topics such as wildlife conservation, veganism, and companion animals.

• At weekly events throughout Florida, ARFF aired real footage from factory farms as crowds gathered to watch.

• ARFF’s new blog and MySpace page helped us share our message with even more people.

Farm Animals
• An ARFF investigation drew attention to the plight of ailing and neglected dairy cows at the University of Florida’s Dairy Research Unit, resulting in media coverage and an internal university investigation.

• ARFF continued to oppose Florida’s cruel egg industry, attending commission meetings and sending email alerts. We celebrated when the cities of Hollywood, West Palm Beach, Winter Springs and New Port Richey passed resolutions condemning the intensive confinement of chickens in battery cages.

Animals in Entertainment
• Ringling Bros. was forced to cancel two shows, one in Miami and another in Lakeland, due to poor ticket sales (an unprecedented move by the circus), following ARFF’s vigilant presence at show venues and letters to newspaper editors.

• As ARFF held regular demonstrations exposing the physical and mental abuse inflicted upon circus animals, the City of Coral Springs stipulated that the Cole Bros. Circus could not bring elephants to the city this year. The City of Palm Coast ruled that Cole Bros. could not bring elephants, big cats and camels to the city.

• A Miami nightclub cancelled plans to use tigers and other “circus animals” in a special event after ARFF contacted the club’s management and the district’s city commissioner.

• ARFF's efforts were rewarded when the Pioneer Florida Museum & Village, in Dade City, announced that it would not include a greased pig contest in this year's "Pioneer Days Festival."

Animal Overpopulation
• ARFF’s state-of-the-art mobile clinic conducted its 5,000th spay/neuter procedure this year, helping Floridians curtail animal overpopulation with affordable, no-hassle services.

Wildlife
• After two serious incidents involving animals for sale at an exotic animal auction in Sumter County, ARFF lobbied the county commission to put an end to the auction. Not only was the auction shut down, but its owner decided to put the business up for sale.

• ARFF joined protests against plans by the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority to pave over gopher tortoises’ habitat; due to protests, the OOCEA announced that the tortoises would be relocated to a conservation site before construction went forward.

• ARFF halted the extermination of raccoons at John U. Lloyd State Park in Dania Beach by USDA trappers, who were hired by park management. (Lactating females killed in the proposed hunt would have left orphaned baby raccoons to starve to death.)

Carriage Horses
• After ARFF informed the City of Altamonte Springs about the stress, dehydration, toxic pollution, and severe injuries (often leading to death) suffered by carriage horses, the city made the compassionate and responsible decision not to offer horse-drawn carriages this holiday season.