Photo: AAP Animal Advocacy and Protection / Dani Oshi Yesterday Martin Hojsík MEP and the European Parliament’s Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals hosted an event in the European Parliament to discuss Europe’s wildlife rescue crisis. MEPs, Member States’ representatives and animal welfare NGOs all came to the conclusion that increased coordination and […]
Photo: L214 Eurogroup for Animals and its 69 member organisations are calling for a move away from high concentration CO2 stunning of pigs, a common method of slaughter that causes acute pain and severe suffering. In a newly released position paper, the organisations are calling for investments from the industry and national and EU decision […]
Photo credit: Otwarte Klatki / Andrew Skowron Faced with strong opposition, MHP, the main Ukrainian poultry meat company exporting to the EU, has withdrawn its application for a grant from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Over the past five months, Eurogroup for Animals and its Member organisations have urged the European Union […]
The number of animals used in experiments is far from decreasing, even though the Commission – on several occasions and in several documents – has adopted the goal of fully replacing the use of animals in science. Scientists and institutions that are working to develop and promote non-animal methods are constantly frustrated by the very […]
Photo credit: © Sarah Stockman How do you say ‘appropriate husbandry for captive lions’ in Bulgarian? Or in Polish, Spanish or German? You need wonder no more, because the European Commission has finally translated their Zoos Directive Good Practices Document into seven more languages. When the Zoos Directive (Council Directive 1999/22/EC) was transposed into national […]
Photo credit: Tahoe Beetschen The Court of Justice of the European Union has confirmed the strict protection of the wolf in Europe, saying that hunting permits should be delivered only in exceptional cases, and as a very last resort after non-lethal measures have been adequately implemented and have failed. This good news for the species […]
Photo credit: © WTO Would a mandatory method-of-production label be compliant with the rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)? We say it could, and this is what we proposed at the WTO Public Forum on 11th October. Eurogroup for Animals – jointly with the RSPCA and with other funders of the Trade Programme (Deutscher […]
Photo credit: © Jeff S. PhotoArt REGISTER HERE (BY 6 NOVEMBER) Along with Martin Hojsik MEP and the Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals, Eurogroup for Animals will be hosting an event at the European Parliament, “Breaking Point: Solving the European Wildlife Rescue Crisis” on 13th November 2019. The event will […]
Photo © Dani Oshi MEP Anja Hazekamp today promised to drive “many more resolutions over the coming years” towards the EC in her role as President of the Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals, following a promise made by President-elect of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen to take resolutions from the EP […]
Photo © Compassion in World Farming A total of 1,617,405 citizens have signed the EndTheCageAge European Citizens’ Initiative to make cages history for farmed animals – and yesterday NGOs, MEPs and EU citizens came together in Brussels to celebrate the closing of the campaign, which sends a strong and clear message to the EU Commission […]