#Act4 Wildlife Eurogroup for Animals welcomes efforts made by the European Parliament’s Environment Committee to strengthen animal welfare provisions in the Rapporteur Pavel Poc’s Report on the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species. MEPs support animal welfare, but undermine the entire Invasive Alien Species regulation! 30 January 2014 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 Wildlife Every year the North Atlantic turns into a red sea as Faroese carry on the ‘grindadráp’, a cruel tradition which involves driving cetaceans into bays before severing their spinal cords with knives, resulting in a slow and extremely painful death. Action against the killing of pilot whales in Faroe Islands 28 January 2014 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 AnimalsEU Eurogroup for Animals welcomes the mention of farm animal and wild animal welfare in the draft Resolution discussed today at the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament. EU-Vietnam Trade negotiations: EP must go beyond the current position of EU negotiators 21 January 2014 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 Wildlife From 21 to 23 January 2014, the European Fur Information Centre (a pro-fur trade body) will hold an exhibition at the European Parliament to promote the fur industry. Facts about fur production 20 January 2014 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 Pets Every year, even one hundred thousand dogs go to places where their fate is difficult to determine - estimates the Office of Animal Protection of the ARGOS Foundation, which monitors the situation in Polish shelters. Tens of thousands of dogs disappear in Poland without trace 12 April 2012
#Act4 Wildlife Banning the public from keeping any exotic pets that are not included on a permitted list is essential to curbing a trade that has gone “out of control”, a researcher has warned. Vets think a Positive List is the answer for ‘out of control’ exotic trade 3 October 2010
