#Act4 Wildlife With regard to animal welfare and conservation, whistleblowers are often alerting authorities, media, and NGOs about the lack of compliance with the legislation. Intergroup meeting report: "Whistleblowers: the protection of persons reporting on breaches of EU law” 14 March 2019
#Act4 Wildlife In his call for more decisive action, at Community and local level, to protect endangered species and biodiversity, European Commissioner Vella has spoken extremely clear words on the "wolf issue" which affects many Member States. EU Commissioner Vella says "Hands off wolves: biodiversity is at risk" 1 March 2019 LAV
#Act4 Wildlife It argued, in particular, that the working group did not include a sufficient number of experts on the alternatives to non-human primates in research. Ombudsman concludes no maladministration in selection of experts to evaluate the need for non-human primates in research 18 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Here is an overview by policy area Commission urges Cyprus, Czechia, France, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain to speed up actions against invasive alien species 24 January 2019
#Act4 Wildlife The Bird Protection League (LPO - Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux) announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against France before the European Commission. She demands a ban on the hunt for glue, which the Council of State has refused her. Hunting birds with glue: a complaint against France before the European Commission 4 January 2019