#Act4 AnimalsEU EU and Chinese experts meet to discuss sustainability, food systems and resilience. Animal welfare could be the key to prevent future pandemics, as explained in a new report. New report presents key opportunities for the EU and China to partner up in driving animal welfare and prevent future pandemics 18 November 2020 Press Release
#Act4 AnimalsEU Join us on Wednesday 18 November to discuss what the EU and China could do for Animals, and how this could also benefit public health and climate change. Event - What could the EU and China do for Animals? 6 November 2020
#Act4 Wildlife Swinging through the treetops comes naturally for gibbons. Conservation: Bridge of hope for world's rarest primate 19 October 2020
#Act4 Pets At least 5,000 pets were found dead in cardboard shipping boxes last week at a logistics facility in Central China, likely casualties of a miscommunication in the supply chain of China's thriving mass-breeding industry. 5,000 pets found dead in boxes at Chinese shipping depot 5 October 2020
#Act4 Wildlife A group of around 10 porpoises would have appeared 8 months after the government decided to ban fishing in 332 nature reserves along the river earlier this year and most likely thanks to the effects of containment linked to the epidemic of COVID-19 of which Wuhan is the cradle. 10 wingless porpoises spotted in the Yangtze River 23 September 2020 C'est Assez
#Act4 FarmAnimals Biosecure farms complete with staff quarantine and chutes for dead pigs are seen as progress, but may carry their own risks. A 12-storey pig farm: has China found the way to tackle animal disease? 21 September 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals A sample of frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil has tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, authorities said Thursday, the latest in a series of reports of contaminated imported food products. Chinese officials say chicken wings imported from Brazil tested positive for Covid-19 13 August 2020
#Act4 Pets Activists hope coronavirus epidemic will be the death knell of tradition. China dog meat festival goes ahead but COVID-19 takes a toll 29 June 2020
#Act4 Wildlife The Chinese government has decided that native Chinese pangolins should have a higher protection status, from the second to the first class. This gives them the same level of protection as the giant panda in China. Pangolin gets special protection status in China 12 June 2020
#Act4 Wildlife Wuhan has made a bold and promising move: it has banned people from eating wild animals for five years. In Wuhan people banned from eating wild animals for five years 25 May 2020
#Act4 LabAnimals The Chinese National Guidelines (GB/T 35892‐20181) for the ethical review of laboratory animal welfare were issued February 06, 2018 and became effective September 01, 2018. Guidelines for the ethical review of laboratory animal welfare - Chinese National Standard 19 May 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Commissioner Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission answers to an oral written question by Sirpa Pietikäinen MEP inquiring on the actions the EU Commission will undertake to promote immunocastration or the farming of entire pigs as valid alternatives to surgical castration in China. EC to further develop cooperation with China on animal welfare and surgical castration of piglets 18 May 2020
