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HISTORIC DAY! 👏👏👏
The
@EU_Commission
has committed to ban cages in the EU!🐔🐰🐷
Thank you for listening to the 1.4 million EU citizens who
raised their voice for the over 300 million farmed caged animals in the EU!
We are set to
#EndTheCageAge
with
#NoAnimalLeftBehind
! 💪
🐾💛Joyeaux anniversaire
@Brigitte_Bardot
!
Un immense merci pour toutes ces années de luttes acharnées pour la défense et protection de nos amis les animaux! 🐾💐
⛴ Terribly sad update on the
#LiveTransport
vessels crisis.
The animals stuck on board the Karim Allah vessel for almost 3 months are now being unloaded and killed. 😔
We call on
@EU_Commission
to investigate & hold parties accountable for violating
#AnimalWelfare
regulations.
🇷🇴🚢🐑
#BreakingNews
It's heartbreaking and we simply have no words for the tragedy that happened yesterday in the Romanian port of Midia. 😰
An allegedly overloaded vessel sank with over 14,600 sheep on board. Only 33 were rescued. 😱😪
#BanLiveExport
#StopLiveTransport
⚠🇺🇦 How can we support animals in
#Ukraine
?
We have created a list of organisations working on the ground to protect animals caught up in this conflict.
Please consider making a donation, and stay up to date on how you can help ⬇
🇪🇺🐮🚛
#BreakingNews
🙃
@Europarl_EN
approves a Committee of Inquiry on
#LiveTransport
, the first inquiry ever on
#AnimalWelfare
in the EU. 🍾👏🏼
🙏🏼Thank you to all 605 MEPs who want to better protect animals during live transport!💛
Read our comment➡️
🐙 BREAKING NEWS: with
@ciwf
, we exposed plans for the world's first commercial
#octopus
farm in Spain to
@BBCNews
.
#OctopusFarming
is a disaster for these intelligent and sentient creatures. We’re calling on the EU to ban it ever sees the light of day.
🚢🐄 Crisis at sea: 2,671 bovine on vessels departed from Spain have been stuck at sea for two months.
This is unacceptable for
#AnimalWelfare
and disregards the 🇪🇺
#LiveTransport
regulation.
We urge the 🇪🇸 authorities to find an immediate solution.
⤵
🎆Today is a historic day for animals!
@EUCourtPress
ruling confirms Member States right to ban slaughter without stunning and spare animals unnecessary suffering 🙏
Read our reaction ➡️
Today is Ban Live Exports International Awareness Day!
People all over the world are
standing up against live exports, against horror, against death.
For animals.
#BanLiveExports
@ciwf
@FrancescaEG4A
🚨
#Breaking
: for the first time ever, more than 30 animal protection organisation filed an official complaint to the
@EUombudsman
against the
@EU_Commission
for its failure to deliver on its commitment to
#EndTheCageAge
!
Keep reading⤵️
⚠️🛑Fur is cruel, unnecessary, unethical and a public health risk with the outbreaks of
#COVID
ー19 . Just monitoring is ineffective and costly.
➡️ We urge
@EU_Commission
to call for the suspension of
#mink
farming throughout the EU.
#MakeFurHistory
Hundreds of people in Brussels today to represent millions of EU citizens and billions of animals! 👏❤️
📢 Our demand is clear: we want
@vonderleyen
to keep her promise and
#DelivertheProposal
for better
#animal
welfare!
🙏Thanks to our member Animal Welfare Foundation we have news from the
#Elbeik
vessel.
⛴️After a fuel stop in Crete it's headed to Kalamata to get feed.
🇬🇷We call on the Greek authorities to get vets onboard ASAP.
🐄These animals deserve to be checked!
#StopLiveTransport
⛴ A final update on the
#LiveTransport
crisis on board the
#KarimAllah
.
Animal Welfare Foundation just confirmed that all the animals on board have now been unloaded & killed.
We are closely monitoring the second vessel & are even more determined to
#StopLiveTransport
.
🥳💪🇮🇹 Today marks history in Italy: fur farming will be banned as of 1 January 2022 for good!
Congratulations to
@LAVonlus
,
@EssereAnimali
,
@Animal_Law_ita
@AE_Italia
for the tireless efforts over the past years and months for this big win 🥇
Read ⬇️
🐘Elephant escapes from circus in South Italy and dives into the sea ➡️
Wild animals don't belong in circuses! Please sign & RT to ask
@EU_Commission
to ban the use of wild animals in circuses ✍🏽➡️
#CircusBan
#Act4Wildlife
🎉 We did it!
#FurFreeEurope
has completed its validation process at Member State level, with a final total of 1,502,319 signatures!
🦊 Fur Free Europe now represents the most successful European Citizens' Initiative for
#animalwelfare
, and the 3rd most successful overall.
🇪🇺🐾Welcome
@philip_ciwf
, as new President of Eurogroup for Animals. 👏🏼
We look forward to working with you, we won't rest until all the animals in Europe will live a good life.
#Act4AnimalsEU
Loaded into trucks, marched onto vessels, confined in extreme temperatures, denied food, water or comfort. Live transport is hell for animals.
Thank you
@anjahazekamp
for speaking out! 📢👏
@EP_AnimalTran
MEPs : Use today's vote to
#StopLiveTransport
.
🐷🐔🐰Today is one of the most significant days for farm animals that the world has ever seen! 🙃
👏More than 1,5 million EU citizens signed to
#EndTheCageAge
! A huge thanks to all people who signed the petition & NGOs who made it possible!
Read more➡️
AMAZING NEWS! Lithuania has banned fur farming, a landmark decision that will save around 1 million animals from suffering each year!
Scheduled to go into effect in 2027, Lithuania's remaining fur farms will be shut down FOREVER.
Congrats to our friends
@TustiNarvai
🎉
📢 Over 600 scientists, farmers, researchers, orgs and more have signed an open letter to President
@vonderleyen
, asking her to keep her promise to deliver the new
#animalwelfare
legislation before her term ends.
More on
@EURACTIV
⬇️
#LiveTransport
update
⛴️Animals on the Karim Allah should be immediately unloaded to rest & receive veterinary care
🇪🇺 Stay in Europe
🙅♂️Should not be allowed to proceed on another trip
#StopLiveTransport
#GoodNews
🇵🇱🦊🏆The lower house of the Polish Parliament passed a
#fur
#farming
ban. 77% of MPs voted in favour!🍾
Huge congrats to
@otwarteklatki
for fighting so hard & so long against this cruel industry!👏🏼 Now we count on the Polish senate to make this reality!
#FurFreeEU
Today, we're launching the European Citizens’ Initiative
#FurFreeEurope
, calling for Europe to:
🦊🚫 Ban
#fur
farms
🛍🚫 Ban farmed fur products from the 🇪🇺 market
This is our chance to end unethical + unsustainable fur farming!
Add your name now! ✍⬇
#FutureofCAP
: MEPs rejected all proposals to reserve meat-related names for products containing meat. No change for plant-based products & names they currently use when being sold. Final
#EPlenary
vote on
#CAPreform
later today.
“Everybody here is working every minute of the day to end animal suffering & cruelty in so many ways. Let’s go out there and do it!” -
@philip_ciwf
A huge thanks to our Members for joining us today & sharing the incredible work you make to improve animals' lives!
#AnnualEvent
#GoodNews
#BreakingNews
#FurFree
🐾🇳🇴 Norway to ban fur farms by 2025! 👏🏼🍾🙃 ➡️
“We hope that the closing down of the Norwegian industry inspires other countries. Fur farming is a disgrace for our neighbours 🇸🇪, 🇫🇮 & 🇩🇰” -
@antonkrag
,
@dyrevern
🇬🇷🇪🇺🐴
#GoodNews
Greece has finally implemented the Equine Passport Regulation. Owners of equidae are now required by law to register & care responsibly for their animals. Congrats on
@ippothesisGR
&
@GAWF_
for such success! 👏🏽
#Act4Equines
Good news!🐰
General cosmetics imported to
#China
will no longer be required to undergo mandatory
#animaltesting
from 1 May 2021, China’s NMPA has confirmed. 🇨🇳🚫
This is progress towards
#reducing
and
#replacing
animals used for toxicity testing worldwide.
#Act4LabAnimals
The European Citizens’ Initiative
#FurFreeEurope
has just reached 1,000,000 signatures of support. 🎉
This amazing progress proves that citizens all over Europe demand an end to
#fur
farming. ✊
Learn more about this exciting step ➡
Across Europe, millions of animals are used in science each year.
They include cats, dogs, mice, fish, rats, rabbits, and monkeys. We need to
#EndAnimalTesting
to end this suffering.
If you’re an EU citizen, please add your name here ✍➡
Big announcement❗
The World Federation for Animals has been formed.
#WFAlaunch
We have joined with 18 other founding members to form an international federation working on behalf of
#animals
globally. 🌍
Follow
@WrldFed4Animals
and find out more ▶
🐺🇫🇮 Finland´s decision to hunt their strictly protected & critically endangered wolf population is illegal under the EU Habitats Directive.
We urge
@EU_Commission
to step in and halt the hunt, which is set to begin on Feb 1st! ⏱
@mmm_fi
@JariLeppa
🇮🇹 Italy has suspended
#mink
farming until the end of 2021!
Huge step forward in addressing the serious risks from
#COVID19
. 🦠
We ask the
@EU_Commission
to extend this to all Member states to protect
#publichealth
!
Read our scientific statement ➡
⚠️👉Storico risultato, sospeso per tutto il 2021 l'allevamento di visoni! Salvata la vita di almeno 35.000 animali. Bene
@robersperanza
ora occorre allineare l'Italia ad altri Stati Ue e vietare per sempre questi allevamenti
#emergenzavisoni
Today we had an amazing guest at our office! Thank you
@PeterEgan6
for the stories you shared with us and for such a deep commitment to
#AnimalWelfare
. We hope to see you again in Brussels soon! 😉
😰 Animals onboard the
#Elbeik
are in dreadful conditions after 3 months at sea.
Spanish authorities order to euthanise them.
🙏
@EU_Health
@SKyriakidesEU
we need to prevent this from happening again!
🙅♂️ Do we need more proof to
#StopLiveTransport
?
VICTORY - a massive thanks to the 558 MEPs standing up for farmed animals day today and joining the voice of 1.4 European Citizens! 🎉🎉🎉
Now onto the
@EU_Commission
to finally
#EndTheCageAge
for good! 👏
#BREAKING
EU Parliament shows overwhelming support for ban of animal cages by 2027, in a resolution adopted just now.
#EndTheCageAge
💪
✅ 558 Yes
❌ 37 No
🤷♀️ 85 abstained
MEPs also want no more force feeding!
#EPplenary
#MEPsvsCages
📰 More here ▶️
🔴Today is
#LiveTransport
International Day
🔴Today is the day we act for billions of animals experiencing immense stress, injury, disease & death each year because of transport conditions
🙏Help us stop this
✍️Sign our pledge to
@EU_Commission
, here: ➡️
#NoAnimalLeftBehind
:
It's high time for the
@EU_Commission
to put an end to the unnecessary suffering animals have to endure during
#LiveTransport
.
Let's change the future for ALL farmed animals!
Help us be heard at
🐷🐟🐮🐔🐰
🐶🎥 "A Dog’s Life" follows the work of
@milenamalesevi1
, an incredible woman who since 2006 has rescued over 1,000 dogs in Sarajevo.
Don't miss the film screening and drinks with
@PeterEgan6
on 30 Jan
@Europarl_EN
.
Info & registration ➡📝
Help bring an end to the
#ivory
trade! 🐘🚫
The
@EU_Commission
published draft measures aimed to effectively ban 🇪🇺 trade in ivory.
It is now open for public feedback before being adopted.
⚠⏰ Deadline is 25 February. Please take part and share!
"Our challenge to society is do we love
#animals
enough to let them be free from pain, suffering and fear? Do we love animals enough to let them enjoy the thrill to be alive?" -
@philip_ciwf
kicks off our Annual Event.
#Act4AnimalsEU
🙌 🦊
@tarhauskielto
- a Finnish citizens’ initiative calling for a national phase out of
#fur
farming - will now go to Parliament for debate after collecting the required 50,000 signatures in just 24 hours.
It is time for a
#FurFreeEurope
!
It’s time to change the rules on
#LiveTransport
:
We are pleased to announce the release of our White Paper on the revision of the Transport Regulation.
Read it here ▶
🇪🇺🐾🥳Celebrating today the enormous success of
#EndTheCage
, with a total of 1,617,405 signatures gathered from European citizens. 🙃🙌🏼🎉
Thank you to all EU citizens who signed the petition & NGOs that made this campaign possible! 💛
🎪🏴🇬🇧
#GoodNews
Welsh government announces intention to ban wild animals from circuses in the next 12 months. 11 EU Member States have already adopted a total ban, it's time for a EU-wide
#CircusBan
.
Read more ➡️
#Act4Wildlife
🇳🇱🚛🐮
#COVID19
:
@_NVWA
stresses that
#LiveTransport
should be suspended whenever transporters think they can't comply with the
#EU
law ().
⚠️We call on MS to urgently suspend live transport to avoid unnecessary suffering to the animals! ⚠️
📣 Historic victory!
🐣The Italian Parliament voted to stop the killing of male chicks, next step: the Senate vote in 2022.
🐤Every year in Italy between 25 & 40 million male chicks are killed because they're considered "waste", a cruel reality unknown to most consumers.
📣 VITTORIA STORICA!
La Camera ha votato: dal 2026 sarà vietata l’uccisione dei pulcini maschi in Italia.
Una vittoria frutto della campagna di sensibilizzazione e di lobbying che noi di Animal Equality portiamo avanti da oltre un anno.
Scopri di più 👉
🚛💧
#StopLiveTransport
#Dehydration
Watering intervals set by the law don't guarantee animals access to water & overcrowded conditions impede some animals to reach the few water devices available. Solutions?
#EatLessMeat
& transport carcasses instead of live animals!
"Animals are sentient living beings, they are not objects. So the time has now come for the
#EU
to make it clear
that it's fully committed to make sure that
#AnimalWelfare
is a priority." -
@KarimaDelli
#EUplenary
🐙 Octopuses are profoundly unsuited to intensive farming conditions.
Together with
@ciwf
and hundreds of other organisations, we are calling for the world’s first commercial octopus farm to be scrapped.
Read our case study 👉
#SaveTheOctopuses
🐺 Great news for
#wolves
.
Parties to the Bern Convention have voted against downgrading protection for this iconic species.
We welcome this news following last week's disappointing
@Europarl_EN
vote. Thanks to
@EU_Commission
for their strong support for wolves and
#wildlife
.
⚠️Today, we are making our voices heard to help stop
#LiveTransport
and make sure the EU takes a real stand to stop the horrors of animal transport conditions ⚠️
We need to show that citizens want this change!
Every signature count!
Sign our pledge ➡️
IMPORTANT DAY! 🇪🇺🚚❌
Today
@EP_AnimalTran
votes on its final report, which will define the future of animal transport in the EU.
MEPs: Call for a thorough revision of the transport regulation. It’s time to
#StopLiveTransport
for good.
Live transport causes immense suffering. No animal should spend hours, days, weeks or even months in trucks or on vessels. 🚚🚢
MEPs on the
#ANIT
Committee have the power to
#StopLiveTransport
.
@EP_AnimalTran
: EU citizens have spoken. Use today's vote to end this suffering!
It's time to shine a light on the inhumane living conditions of millions of stray animals across the
#EU
. It's time to act to reduce with humane methods the stray dog population by 2025. We call on MEPs to sign the pledge to
#Act4StrayAnimals
. Learn more:
Circus as an art does not need animals.
Animals should not be used for public entertainment.
It is time for the EU to confirm its leader position for animal welfare and ban the use of wild animals in circuses
@EU_Commission
#EUStopCircusSuffering
➡️
📢 On
#WorldCageFreeDay
we are calling on the
@EU_Commission
to keep its promise and
#EndTheCageAge
in 🇪🇺!
💔 300 million animals suffer inside cages in Europe.
💪 Over 1.4 millions EU citizens called for this cruelty to STOP! The time is now to end it!
Join
@ciwf
's action!
Today we joined together in Brussels to celebrate the
#FurFreeEurope
campaign and the strength of our network. 💪 📸
Thank you to everyone who attended our Annual Conference and our moment to stand against
#fur
farming in front of the Berlaymont building. 🇪🇺 🙌
A new investigation from
@CrueltyFreeIntl
has revealed shocking suffering and cruelty endured by animals in a laboratory in the EU, in contravention of 🇪🇸 and 🇪🇺 law.
Sign the petition demanding closure of this facility
✍ ➡
Our reaction to
@vonderleyen
's
#SOTEU
👇
Despite the overall disappointment, we remain confident that the new
#animalwelfare
legislation will be delivered this year! 💪
⛔️🐮🚛"One driver told us that it had taken him three hours to travel 300 metres. There were trucks of sheep, bulls, cows. I’ve never seen a queue like it.”
Read more ⤵️ via
@guardian
/
@bibivanderzee
#LiveExport
continues amid the
#COVID19
pandemic despite the potential risk it poses to the spread of disease across borders & overseas. Campaigners are calling for its suspension over welfare & disease concerns during the current border crisis. Read more: