#Act4 Pets The southern Chinese technology hub of Shenzhen is moving to outlaw the consumption of dogs and cats as the country clamps down on the wildlife trade that scientists suspect led to the coronavirus outbreak. Coronavirus: Shenzhen prepares ban on eating cats and dogs after outbreak 28 February 2020
#Act4 Pets Moscow authorities are rounding up stray animals and exterminating rats as a precaution against the new coronavirus, actions that animal rights campaigners decried as cruel and scientifically groundless. Moscow rounds up stray animals, kills rats over coronavirus fears 28 February 2020
#Act4 Pets IMPORTANT: Due to COVID19 and health concerns, the conference has been canceled. “Animal rights: new frontiers in protection” conference in Milan 24 February 2020
#Act4 Pets The remains of more than a hundred animals were found in the pits in the outskirts of Hajdúsámson. Mass graves of dog carcasses found in Hungary 20 February 2020
#Act4 Pets Every Friday evening, a 2km stretch of road in Caidang, Jiangsu province throngs with merchants haggling over puppies and kittens. The dark side of China’s pet boom 13 November 2019
#Act4 Pets OXFORD-based MEP, Catherine Bearder, has become a trustee for an animal welfare charity. UK MEP Catherine Bearder new Trustee for International Fund for Animal Welfare 17 June 2019
#Act4 Pets Hundreds of Cubans have marched through Havana calling for an end to animal cruelty, in what organizers believe was the first independent march authorized by the one-party state. Hundreds of activists and pets march in Cuba against animal abuse 8 May 2019