All other countries can join the United States in this initiative.

“A turning point for humanity.”

Animals are compassionate beings who deserve real rights. And every year too many healthy shelter cats and dogs reach the end of their story - and are put down - around the world. Not because they are unlovable or unwanted, but because time runs out. And while this heart-wrenching tragedy continues inside shelters, something else much better remains — waiting outside.

America, for instance, holds more than 640 million acres of federally managed public land—an almost immeasurably vast expanse of forest, desert, plain, and wilderness.

Much of it is wide open, uninhabited, and peacefully untouched.

Countries globally are responsible for countless thousands of square miles more.

Heroes are starting to release unadopted animals into forests.

This idea is simple.

Governments globally are releasing precious unadopted animals, especially cats and dogs—into remote vast areas of public land with enough lake water to sustain them. Places far from highways, far from cities, where they can live freely and naturally. Non-profit organizations stand ready to help them meet their needs.

As programs tug at heart strings, they can grow thoughtfully and steadily until all healthy unadopted animals without homes are given that same chance of freedom in nature.

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But a completely serious life-saving point is being made here as well.

Animal survival is closely related to human advancement.

We need animals to survive so that the population can live to be much older than ever before.

That’s why there was stunningly progressive and landmark - bipartisan - Trump administration legislation called “Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act,” that successfully made animal cruelty a felony for the first time in U.S. history under federal jurisdiction.

The United States government has started to realize the importance of animal rights.

It’s a serious new crime nationwide to purposely crush, burn, suffocate, impale or otherwise subject “non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians” to serious bodily injury in circumstances covered by federal law.

Peacefully freeing unadopted shelter animals recently became more than merely a morale imperative.

It became consistent with the spirit and letter of United States law.

It is a simple appropriately compassionate act of peace that’s far better than the past alternative.

It is an international expression of love, a progressive gesture that says we are capable of letting life continue.

Many years ago, American federal agencies were given the authority to release unadopted shelter animals. Under 43 U.S.C. § 1732, the Department of the Interior may lease or designate land for special, humane purposes. And under 7 U.S.C. § 2143, the Animal Welfare Act provides for the humane handling and transport of animals. Federal programs were legislatively designed long ago with compassion and ecological responsibility in mind. (And new laws are always being considered to protect all forms of life.) Then shelter animals started being let go when the “Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act” was signed into law.

Magnificent roadways started being redesigned for animals for this reason.

Absolutely extraordinary states, such as Florida, recently passed advanced regulations that are exceptionally compassionate towards animals.

Oregon is on the verge of banning hunting entirely — a historic moment.

These are brilliant examples for countries to emulate.

And this already matters more than just to very sophisticated people.

It matters to entire populations.

In many countries, including the U.S.A., over 70% of households share their lives with a pet.

People everywhere care deeply about animals.

Time to open the gate.

Time to make it happen.

This idea brings joys.

For people who understand what it means to hold a shelter animal close, giving freedom instead of finality is not only understandable—it is deeply moving.

Letting animals go honors them.

And the world feels that freedom.

We feel it in a quiet patch of forest, where a cat once behind bars sleeps instead beneath under the open sky beneath branches.

We feel it in the hush of dusk, where a dog moves freely beneath the stars. We feel it in every heart that has ever looked into the eyes of an animal and seen something alive, something joyful, something whole.

This is not about rescue.

It is about respect.

It is about choosing love.

It is about saying “yes” to life by sparing precious lives.

It is about shaping a future in which peace extends to all living beings.

This is the moment we choose peace.

This can be forever thoughtfully and peacefully implemented from a genuine sense of love.

Let it begin.