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Animal Equality Italia, CIWF Italia, ENPA, Essere Animali, Greenpeace Italia, Humane Society International Italia, LAV, Legambiente esprimono massima solidarietà a Sabrina Giannini, conduttrice di Indovina chi viene a cena, Mario Tozzi, conduttore di Sapiens, Luca Chianca e Sigfrido Ranucci di
Campaigners call for closure of EU’s wildlife trafficking loopholes and criminalisation of wildlife smuggling, to end “stolen wildlife” crisis
BRUSSELS —Animal protection campaigners have called for the urgent closure of gaping loopholes in EU wildlife trade regulations that fail to prevent the trafficking of protected wild species. At Stolen Wildlife, an online conference, Humane Society International/Europe and Pro Wildlife launched a
Varianti Covid, “Stop all’allevamento di animali da pelliccia in Italia se non vogliamo mettere a rischio la validità del vaccino”
Urgente: divieto di riproduzione e trasporto, screening e sostegno economico per convertire l’attività ROMA—Divieto di riproduzione e trasporto degli animali allevati per la pelliccia dentro e fuori dai confini nazionali, screening regolari, sostegno economico per convertire l’attività e restrizioni
Covid e visoni: l’unica soluzione adeguata è vietare gli allevamenti. Lettera al Ministro della Salute Roberto Speranza delle associazioni animaliste Essere Animali, Humane Society International e LAV.
Essere Animali, Humane Society International e LAV chiedono la chiusura immediata degli allevamenti di animali considerati da pelliccia in Italia, nell’interesse del benessere degli animali e della salute pubblica. Con una lettera aperta rivolta al Ministro della Salute Roberto Speranza, le
HSI welcomes tough new Chilean bill to outlaw cosmetic testing on animals
Chile is in the running to become the second South American country to prohibit animal testing for cosmetics following introduction of a federal bill in late December which, if passed, would prohibit new animal testing of both finished cosmetics and their ingredients, and severely restrict the
HSI/India Farm Animal Protection Leadership Programme
Farm animal protection is an unexplored sector, and is seldom seen as a long-term career option. The insufficient interest and support from premier public and private institutions has created a vast talent pool gap. What is often overlooked is that the maximum suffering of and impact on animals and
BREAKING: Sweden suspends mink fur farming in wake of COVID-19
LONDON—The Swedish government has today announced it will suspend mink fur farming throughout 2021, in the wake of the SARS-CoV-2 virus having been found on 13 mink farms in Sweden so far. Sweden has approximately 40 mink fur farms and produced around 500,000 mink pelts in 2020. Humane Society
HSI, “Lo stop alle pellicce necessario nella battaglia contro la pandemia” Una petizione globale per chiudere gli allevamenti e una shopping guide per consumatori più consapevoli
ROMA —Un milione di firme per dire stop agli allevamenti di animali da pelliccia: è l’obiettivo della petizione globale lanciata da Humane Society International (HSI), assieme al network Fur Free Alliance, che ha raccolto circa 15mila sottoscrizioni nei primi 10 giorni. “Ci sono ragioni di ordine
Scientists: giraffes in Kenya, Tanzania "endangered"
WASHINGTON—Highlighting the need for global action to fight giraffes’ silent extinction, a body of scientific experts today declared giraffes in Kenya and Tanzania — called Masai giraffes — endangered. Masai giraffes, one of nine giraffe subspecies, had long been considered a key population for the
UK animal experiment statistics indicate reluctance to embrace modern tools to advance British labs into the 21st century
LONDON—Home Office statistics published today[1] reveal a shockingly high number of dogs, mice, cats, rabbits and other animals are still suffering in invasive, painful and sometimes lethal experiments in British laboratories despite unprecedented availability of high-tech and often more human
Humane Society International names Jeffrey Flocken as president
WASHINGTON—The Board of Directors of Humane Society International announced today that it has selected Jeffrey Flocken as its new president. Flocken, who has been the organization’s senior vice president for programs and policy since February 2018, succeeds Kitty Block, who became president and CEO
The HSUS and HSI release findings of an undercover investigation into a lucrative ivory trade in the nation’s capital
WASHINGTON - Today the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International released findings of an undercover investigation revealing a lucrative ivory trade in the nation’s capital, where ivory dealers take advantage of the lack of local laws banning the sale of ivory. Legislation
One Year Out from 2020 Tokyo, NGOs Appeal to Tokyo Governor to End Ivory Trade
One year before the start of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games, international and Japanese conservation organizations are appealing to Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike to ban the sale of ivory in the city. Japan boasts the world’s largest legal domestic ivory market, and its ongoing support for an industry
Consumer, environmental and animal welfare groups urge MEPs to reject proposals to ban plant-based foods producers from using terms like “veggie burger” or “vegan sausage”
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -- Consumer, environmental and animal welfare organisations have come together to call on the new Members of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) to reject proposals that seek to prevent the producers of plant-based foods from using terms
“Eat Green!” says Kobus Wiese
CAPE TOWN - Dulcé Café and Wiesenhof have teamed up with Humane Society International/Africa to join the global movement towards more plant-based, sustainable food by launching three new delicious meat- and dairy-free dishes for their winter 2019 menus. The restaurant chains’ decision to introduce
HSI celebrates Brazil´s elimination of cruel dog-poisoning test and other major reforms to pesticide regulation
BRASILIA—Humane Society International has welcomed sweeping animal welfare reforms to regulations governing the testing of agricultural pesticides in Brazil, including abolition of a controversial year-long poisoning test in dogs, recognition of modern animal testing alternatives, and creation of a
A HSI comemora a decisão brasileira de eliminar o teste de envenenamento em cães e as reformas na regulamentação de agrotóxicos
BRASILIA–A Humane Society International aplaudiu esta semana importantes mudanças no regulamento que rege os testes toxicológicos para agrotóxicos no Brasil, incluindo o fim do controverso teste de envenenamento de cães pelo período de um ano, o reconhecimento de metodologias alternativas modernas
La supervivencia de las especies amenazadas de tiburón estará en juego durante la conferencia de vida silvestre de la CITES
LONDRES - La supervivencia de 18 especies de tiburones y rayas amenazadas por el comercio internacional se debatirá este mes en Ginebra, Suiza, donde 183 países estarán reunidos para la Convención sobre el Comercio Internacional de Especies Amenazadas de Fauna y Flora Silvestres (CITES CoP18). Se
Animal charity condemns the resumption of ‘barbaric bloodsport’ bullfighting in Mallorca
Brussels - Bullfighting has returned to the Balearic Islands in Spain. The cruel spectacle, held at Mallorca's Coliseo Balear on Friday 9 th August, came in the wake of a Spanish Constitutional Court ruling that struck down legislative measures adopted by the autonomous community’s Parliament in
Global wildlife conference votes to end cruel export of live wild-caught African elephants to captive facilities
This release has been corrected. GENEVA—The first vote at the 18 th meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties has delivered a historic win for African elephants to end the cruel practice of removing live elephants from the wild for export to captive facilities. CITES is the UN Convention on