>>> On February 3, 2017, the federal agency in charge of animal well-being - the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) - quietly deleted thousands upon thousands of detailed documents about the treatment of animals at zoos, circuses, parks, aquariums, breeding operations, research labs, etc.

I quickly reposted nine years of annual reports. Then Delcianna Winders - an Academic Fellow at Harvard Law School's Animal Law & Policy Program - sent me a ton of missing documents. After Motherboard, Politico, Rachel Maddow, and Time spotlighted my efforts, lots more documents and leads came in. (I've also started adding the documents that APHIS began dribbling out on Feb 17th.)

This will be the central page for all of these APHIS documents plus any others that I get my hands on.

Note: Most of these files are individual reports, but many are compilations of multiple reports from the same facility, the same state, or the same year. Also, the webservers are constantly processing these numerous files, while I keep adding new ones, so it might take a while for everything to show up.