
About 12 percent of these are related to animal thefts and releases. With direct actions such as cutting the brake lines of 38 seafood delivery trucks, or the use of fire bombs and incendiary devices, it is through luck not planning, that there have been no ELF and ALF casualties.Īn analysis of incidents occurring between the year 19 reflects that nearly 70 percent of these direct actions are acts of violence, ranging in seriousness.


ELF and ALF are responsible for estimating conservatively, over $110 million in damages and 1,100 acts of terrorism in the decade 1995-2005. ELF and ALF recruit their membership from young people between the ages of 18 and 25. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) are loosely-organized movements whose adherents engage in crimes like arson, fire bombings, vandalism, intimidation, assaults, stalking, etc.
