Recent elections in Europe and Australia have shown the steady rise of political parties for animal rights, nature and the environment. Voters in France, the UK, Italy and Australia brought electoral wins to the Parti Animaliste, the Animal Welfare Party, the Partito Animalista and the Animal Justice Party Australia. A clear sign that the international animalist political movement is gaining groun...
A first for political parties for animal rights, nature and the environment: the Dutch Party for the Animals is to join the daily executive board of two large municipalities. With this change from opposition to the daily board of an administration, the party is writing history. “We are ready to take this responsibility now. The question that remains is whether or not the other parties are ready fo...
Better camera surveillance in slaughterhouses can prevent abuse. A proposal to this effect by the Dutch Party for the Animals was recently adopted by the House of Representatives. "Animal-friendly slaughter does not exist, but as long as there are slaughterhouses, we must do everything we can to limit animal suffering as much as possible," said Leonie Vestering, MP of the Party for the Animals and...
About fifty thousand people signed the recently launched European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Europe Fur Free’ on its first day. MEP Anja Hazekamp of the Dutch Party for the Animals opened the citizens’ initiative in Amsterdam, together with the initiators Bont voor Dieren (Fur For Animals), Four Paws, World Animal Protection and Dier & Recht (Animals & Justice). The goal of the citizens’ initiative is ...
The past month has shown that increasingly more people worldwide are making a stand for the protection of nature, animals, and the environment. They understand that the fate of animals is linked to ours: a safer world for animals is a safer world for people. A healthy environment and flourishing nature are literally of vital importance. But instead of protecting these, governments in many countrie...
NGO’s, animal protectionists and veterinarians in Albania demand improvement and enforcement of the law to protect animals. At the first Albanian Conference for the Protection of Animals, organized by the Albanian Institute for Environmental Policy with the support of the Dutch Party for the Animals, they presented a seven point action plan to national and local authorities and the assembled press...
In a historic court case, Ecuador became the first country in the world to grant individual wild animals legal rights. They are now regarded as legal persons and, according to the judgment, have the right to exist and not to be hunted, caught, or traded. Which is a milestone for the protection of animals and nature. For years, the Party for the Animals and other political parties for animal rights...
At the request of the Dutch Party for the Animals, emergency aid for animals will become a part of crisis scenarios from the Ministry of Justice and Security. This will help prevent dangerous situations for both humans and animals. Next to this, the party’s proposal to no longer separate Ukrainian refugees from their pets was adopted.
EU countries can now zero rate healthy products such as fruit and vegetables. New EU rules enabling this were approved by the European Parliament at the beginning of March. The change came about at the insistence of MEP Anja Hazekamp of the Party for the Animals. "The healthiest and most sustainable food choice should also be the cheapest one. EU countries are now free to use their VAT rules for s...
“Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.” That is what António Gutierrez, Secretary-General of the United Nations, said after the publication of the latest report by the international climate panel IPCC earlier this month. It is remarkable that someone in such an importan...
Coal and biomass power plants in the Netherlands burn around 100,000 shredded Russian trees per month. Which is disastrous for our climate and good for Putin’s war chest, according to the Dutch Party for the Animals. Its proposal to ban the import of wooden biomass from Russia was adopted by a majority of the House of Representatives last week.
Immediate action is required to avert a climate disaster, scientists of the climate panel IPCC have stated in an alarming report released last week. There are plenty of effective, affordable measures to halt global warming to a standstill, but they have to be taken now. Energy conservation, more sustainable energy, stopping deforestation, and last but not least, reducing our consumption of meat an...
A proposal by the Dutch Party for the Animals to introduce a European ban on the fertility drug eCG, which is made from the blood of pregnant horses, was recently adopted by a large majority in the Dutch House of Representatives. Previously, the European Parliament called for such a ban on the initiative of the Party for the Animals as well.
Weeks of animal transport, unanesthetized castration of piglets, the shredding of day-old chicks and lifelong confinement of billions of animals in cages – if it were up to tens of thousands of citizens, companies and organisations, the European Commission would put an end to these and other cruel practices as soon as possible. The overwhelming response to a questionnaire on animal welfare, presen...