Concord’s Market Days Festival is our biggest outreach event of the year and always a lot of fun.
The 3-day event starts Thu., June 26 and ends Sat., June 28, 10:00 am to 8:00 pm each day. Volunteers are warmly welcomed! Click signup button or email info@nhanimalrights.org.
We’re excited to announce that NHARL will be partnering with Voices of Wildlife in NH at Portsmouth Market Square Day again this year!
This is a full day event (9 am to 4 pm) with an estimated 50,000 people walking through, so we’ll need lots of help in our tent!
Expanding on last year’s topic of safe and humane rodent management, we’ll address other pesticides that also threaten wildlife and biodiversity, including mosquito spraying and neonicotinoids.
This is a full day event (9 am to 4 pm) with an estimated 50,000 people walking through! Volunteers are warmly welcomed! Click signup button or email info@nhanimalrights.org.
Once again, NHARL will have a tent at Mutt Strutt an annual fundraiser hosted by our friends at the Manchester Animal Shelter.
The event is Sat., May 31 from 10 am to 2 pm at Livingston Park in Manchester and includes a one-mile walk around Dorrs Pond for eventgoers and their pooches.
Volunteers warmly welcomed! You can help for a couple hours or stay for the whole event. Email info@nhanimalrights.org.
Kicking off May 1, 2025, we are hosting a Manchester Vegan Chef Challenge in Manchester! This month-long event created by Vegan Outreach is designed to showcase new vegan menu items created by local restaurant chefs.
We’re inviting Manchester restaurants to join the Vegan Chef Challenge and compete by creating delicious vegan dishes for diners to enjoy!
Diners vote for their favorite dishes, and restaurants with winning dishes receive awards!
The Vegan Chef Challenge has been a hit in other cities, including Newton, MA. Participating restaurants tend to keep popular vegan items on their menus even after the challenge ends!
This exciting, feel-good event will bring more delicious vegan options to Manchester and help move the world toward a kinder, animal-free food future.
Our October meetup at NH Doughnut Company was such a hit that we’re bringing it back! Join us Saturday, March 29 for another round of delicious vegan donuts at NH Doughnut Co. in Bedford.
More Vegan Flavors, Just for Us! 🍩 NH Doughnut Company has been working hard to create six incredible vegan flavors — double the usual selection! Get ready to try:
At our last meetup, the vegan donuts sold out before 10:00 AM — so don’t miss out! Pre-order your donuts by 8:00 PM on Friday, March 28 to be sure you’re not left hungry!
Drop by NH Doughnut Co. (410 S River Rd., Bedford) anytime between 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Important: The meetup is at the Bedford location, and Bedford is the only location offering extra vegan flavors.
Let’s show NH Doughnut Co. that vegan donuts are in demand — see you there!
Turtles look tough, but they are in trouble. So in 2024, we launched the Turtle Brigade — a dedicated team on a mission to protect New Hampshire turtles from dangerous, human-made threats like busy roads.
Join us Sat., March 21 as we welcome wildlife biologist Josh Megyesy and NH Turtle Rescue founders Dallas Huggins and Drew Stevens for a talk about turtle conservation in the Granite State followed by a discussion of the Turtle Brigade’s Spring 2026 turtle-saving plans!
Let’s Talk Turtles!
Speakers: Josh Megyesy, NH Wildlife Biologist
Dallas Huggins and Drew Stevens, NH Turtle Rescue
Sat., March 21 at 10:00 am
Hilton Garden Inn Manchester
101 South Commercial St., Manchester
~ Coffee and light refreshments ~
Josh Megyesy is a wildlife biologist with the NH Fish & Game Department’s Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program. With over a decade of experience studying and protecting NH’s at-risk turtle populations, Josh specializes in radio telemetry, habitat management, landowner assistance, and education. His work also spans other rare reptiles, amphibians, and nongame species.
Dallas Huggins and Drew Stevens are licensed wildlife rehabilitators who founded New Hampshire Turtle Rescue, a volunteer-run nonprofit based in Nottingham. As of 2025, they have provided care to over 800 wild turtles.
Their mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, release, and preserve native turtle species through individualized care, public education, outreach, and scientific research in support of imperiled populations of wild New Hampshire turtles.
Following the talk, we’ll discuss the Turtle Brigade’s action plan for the 2026 turtle season — and how you can get involved!
For a small donation, you can sponsor a turtle crossing and have it named in your honor — an enduring way to help protect NH’s turtles.
Speaker: Josh Megyesy, NH Wildlife Biologist
Sat., March 1 at 10:00 am
Hilton Garden Inn Manchester
101 South Commercial St., Manchester
~ Coffee and light refreshments ~
Enjoy an engaging introduction to New Hampshire turtle conservation with wildlife biologist Josh Megyesy. This talk will explore:
Josh is a wildlife biologist with the NH Fish & Game Department’s Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program. With over a decade of experience studying and protecting NH’s at-risk turtle populations, Josh specializes in radio telemetry, habitat management, landowner assistance, and education. His work also spans other rare reptiles, amphibians, and nongame species.
Following Josh’s talk, we’ll discuss the Turtle Brigade’s action plan for the 2025 turtle season — and how you can get involved!
For a small donation, you can sponsor a turtle crossing and have it named in your honor — an enduring way to help protect NH’s turtles.
Great news, Mount Washington area friends! You’ve been asking for a local gathering, and we’re making it happen!
Join us for our next vegan meetup on Saturday, February 22, at 11:30 AM for a delicious lunch at Table + Tonic (inside The Local Grocer – 3358 White Mountain Hwy, North Conway, NH).
Although Table + Tonic is not fully vegan, they offer many vegan options. (Below is a photo of their menu, taken about a year ago.) The cafe also offers an array of coffee drinks and smoothies!
Our monthly meetups are a great opportunity to share good food, socialize, and exchange ideas about helping animals.
Everyone is welcome, and you don’t need to be vegan to come along. Just keep in mind that we’ll be enjoying delicious plant-based foods together!
This is a pay-for-your-own meal event.
Glue traps are among the cruelest pest control devices sold today. Victims of glue traps need your help before Wednesday, February 19 at 2:30 pm* when the House Environment and Agriculture Committee meets in the Legislative Office Building 301-303 to hear House Bill 152 – Prohibiting the sale and use of adhesive-based rodent traps.
Coyotes and other wild animals who are victims of wildlife killing contests need your help before Wednesday, February 12 at 1:15 pm* when the House Fish and Game and Marine Resources Committee meets in the Legislative Office Building Room 307 to hear House Bill 589 – Defining and prohibiting wanton animal waste and prohibiting certain wildlife hunting contests.
