"World improvers, unite!", I wrote in my previous blog and that's exactly what I saw last week in Brussels during the international conference of the Animal Politics Foundation, our Party for the Animals’ international foundation. Activists, green politicians, and planet and animal protectionists from 25 countries came together to attend workshops and exchange ideas, with the aim of stopping the d...
This past weekend, politicians and activists from 25 countries came together for the Animal Politics World Conference 'Taking Political Activism to the Next Level' with the aim to accelerate positive change for climate, nature and animals. Participants attended lectures, panel sessions and workshops. "We are going home with renewed energy, inspiration and motivation to continue the fight for the p...
We need to step up on climate action. As scientists point out, nothing less is at stake than a viable future for humanity on this planet, and current policies are falling dramatically short. How to turn the tide? What is the most effective way to tackle the climate crisis? This Saturday December 10 three experience experts on ecocentric politics, youth activism, advocacy and legal action against b...
This year’s Animal Politics World Conference ‘Taking Political Activism to the Next Level’ is all about political activism and speeding up positive change for climate, nature, animals and people. During the upcoming conference on December 10th and 11th in Brussels, experts, politicians, activists, and NGOs from the Middle East, North Africa, EU, UK, the Balkans and Ukraine will gather to share the...
Last week, the Upper House (Senate) in the state of New South Wales passed a bill proposed by the Australian Animal Justice Party to ban puppy farms. This is a huge breakthrough for the more than a hundred thousand puppies “produced” in intensive puppy-breeding farms or ‘puppy mills’ every year – and for their mothers. “Puppy farms are intensive breeding farms for the ‘pet industry’,” said Emma Hu...
Causing damage to the environment and causing animal suffering should be considered a punishable criminal offence in the EU. This is the opinion not only of the Dutch Party for the Animals, which made a series of proposals to this effect, but also of the European Parliament's Environment Committee, which voted on this in late October. Nationally, the Party for the Animals and its Australian sister...
You are, of course, used to reading the monthly blog by Esther Ouwehand, political leader of the Dutch Party for the Animals. Unfortunately, Esther has been suffering from some health problems due to constant overwork, and has temporarily stepped down as MP. Dutch law stipulates that MPs can be replaced for a fixed period of four months due to illness, which is what Esther is doing now. She wishes...
On World Kangaroo Day, MEP Anja Hazekamp (Party for the Animals, the Netherlands) called on the European Commission to end the import of kangaroo meat and kangaroo products. Hazekamp is keen to know why the European Commission did not take action after worrying findings about the kangaroo hunt, which emerged during a parliamentary inquiry conducted by the Australian state of New South Wales. The i...
The European Commission wants to end the systematic slaughter of newly hatched roosters in the egg industry. It is a welcome step in the direction of a more animal-friendly food system, something that political parties for animals, nature, and the environment have been pleading for for years. But as the parties emphasize, to structurally improve the wellbeing of animals and to prevent a bird flu p...