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Animal rescue and response Pop-up veterinary clinics bring urgent care to hundreds of pets in Venezuela’s displacement camps after earthquakes

Hundreds of animals in northern Venezuela, living with their families in temporary displacement camps, are receiving vital veterinary treatment and care in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes

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Farmed animal welfare New EU strategy must help farmers move toward a more humane food system

The European Commission published its EU Strategy on Livestock with the goal of helping the animal agriculture sector become more crisis-resilient, globally competitive and sustainable. Humane World

White chickenstanding in rural enviorment
Farmed animal welfare Fast-food giants in Romania and Poland profiting from chicken cruelty, fail to progress animal welfare improvements

BRUSSELS—Humane World for Animals Europe (formerly called Humane Society International Europe) has just released The Pecking Order 2025, the third consecutive annual report evaluating chicken welfare

Fox farms in Poland
Going fur-free Helping captive wildlife Poland’s president signs fur farming ban into law

WARSAW― Poland has today become the 18th country in the European Union to ban fur farming, after President Karol Nawrocki officially signed a ban into law. This has been welcomed as ”an historic

Animal rescued during the flood in 2024.
Animal rescue and response A year after the devastating floods, Humane World for Animals' grants help five shelters in Poland increase capacity to help animals during disasters

WARSAW, Poland - The animal protection organization Humane World for Animals, formerly known as Humane Society International, recently made grants to assist five animal shelters in areas affected by

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Fast-food giants in Poland and Romania urged to step up chicken welfare efforts

BRUSSELS—Humane World for Animals Europe (formerly called Humane Society International Europe) has released The Pecking Order 2024, a new report that evaluates the chicken welfare policies and

Legs that might have carried an African elephant from one watering hole to another sit on a dolly in the National Wildlife Property Repository as step stool trophies. Roughly 100 years ago, an estimated 10 million elephants roamed Africa. Now it’s a little over 415,000.
Banning trophy hunting Exhibition urges Poland to ban hunting trophy imports from endangered species

WARSAW, Poland —Humane Society International and members of the Polish Parliament are urging Poland to ban the import of hunting trophies from endangered species. This call comes alongside the

Farmed animal welfare Fast-food giants make first steps towards chicken welfare in Romania and Poland

BRUSSELS— The first-ever evaluation of chicken welfare among 16 fast-food brands in Poland and Romania reveals that the fast-food industry in Eastern Europe is taking its first steps towards

Fox in cage
Humane Society International marks Fur-Free Friday this holiday season

EUROPE—Humane Society International/Europe is launching an online campaign in the week before Black Friday, 26 November, in Italy, Germany, Poland and Romania, reminding shoppers that fur clothing