While both the United Nations and the European Parliament continue to unwaveringly support the dairy industry, the Dutch Party for the Animals is drawing the line here. The Party voted against an initiative report in the European Parliament to increase the budget for school milk. “It is ironic to say that children benefit from government-funded school milk, while the dairy industry is actually con...
The Australian Animal Justice Party recently achieved many new victories in their struggle to change animals' lives for the better. Emma Hurst, Member of Parliament of New South Wales for the Animal Justice Party, secured government support for homeless animals and people, by making crisis locations and future social housing animal friendly, and by altering tenancy laws to make it easier for peop...
The number of kangaroos in Australia increased over the past months due to weather conditions, which caused another widespread debate about massive culling actions. Millions of kangaroos are brutally killed and a large part of Australian kangaroo leather and meat is shipped to Europe for commercial use. Once again, experts and animal protectionists from Australia as well as Europe call for an end ...
A lifetime ban from keeping animals for perpetrators of serious animal cruelty, higher maximum sentences for animal torturers and a ban on killing your own pets. Thanks to the adoption of these three legislative amendments last week, the Dutch Party for the Animals has achieved a huge breakthrough in tackling animal abuse and neglect. Party for the Animals MP Frank Wassenberg is overjoyed: “Finall...
Result! This was a month of big breakthroughs for the animals! The Dutch parliament supports three very important legislative changes by the Party for the Animals: much harsher penalties for animal torturers, a lifetime pet ban for the worst offenders and a ban on pets being killed by their owners. The Party for the Animals has been fighting for this for years. There are also positive developmen...
A large group of Moroccan animal welfare organisations has united to stop the killing of stray dogs in their country and, in doing so, protect human health as well. In 2019, Moroccan authorities committed themselves to put a halt to the culling of stray dogs and invest in the TNVR (Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate and Release) programme, which is proven to be the most effective and ethical method to manage...
This month saw the end of the export of live animals by sea from New Zealand. And in Brazil, too, a court ruled last week that live transports can no longer take place from the country's ports. The Party for the Animals in Europe and sister parties worldwide have been working for years to save billions of animals from the terrible long-distance transports in which structural abuses have been demon...
This month, MEP Anja Hazekamp of the Dutch Party for the Animals submitted an urgent appeal to the European Commission to ban the agricultural toxin glyphosate as soon as possible. Hazekamp submitted her appeal even before the Brussels premiere showing of the documentary Into the Weeds on the disastrous consequences of glyphosate for our health and the environment and the lawsuit won against Monsa...
The Dutch Party for the Animals has started an initiative to include rights for nature in the Constitution and thus put an end to the current inadequate protection of nature. This would make the Netherlands the first country in Europe to enshrine rights for nature in the Constitution. MP Leonie Vestering of the Dutch Party for the Animals: “The switch to eco-central thinking must be given a place ...
The Party for the Animals has grown once again in the Netherlands! The results of the regional elections in March have made our party bigger than ever. More and more people these days are voting for politicians who will not shrug off and trivialise the nature and climate crises, but intend to tackle them seriously to ensure a healthy future for all of us. More and more people are raising their voi...
The Greek Party for the Animals, one of over twenty political parties worldwide representing the ecological animal rights movement, has won its first municipal representative. A breakthrough in Greek political history, and a positive sign in the run-up to national elections coming up this spring. “It’s time for the political emancipation of animal advocacy. Animal politics is the new ecology!” say...
Thanks to a proposal, submitted by the Dutch Party for the Animals last week, the Dutch government has to actively oppose the opening of an intensive octopus farm in the EU. The Party for the Animals’ appeal was supported by most of the House of Representatives.
MEP Anja Hazekamp of the Dutch Party for the Animals has called on the European Commission to appoint a commissioner dedicated specifically to animal welfare and animal rights. She also followed the transport of 2,000 tiny calves from Ireland to the Netherlands through France last week, denouncing their brutal mistreatment and neglect along the way: “It is clear that calves shipped to the Netherla...
The Party for the Animals has become bigger than ever in the provinces in last week's elections. The party also made gains in the Water Authorities, and it is likely to gain another seat in the Senate. And so, the Party for the Animals is maintaining the steady growth it has experienced since its foundation. "This is a fantastic election result," said party leader Esther Ouwehand, "more and more p...
First of all, I would like to express my heart-felt sympathy to all the people affected by the terrible earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. The suffering there is incalculable. Fortunately, there are many courageous people hard at work in this region to help the most vulnerable humans and animals among the victims. Our friends from the Animal Save Movement have set up a centralised fundraising campai...