IVSA Animal Welfare

#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 ▶️bit.ly/3592wMh

Happy to support @CIWF for their ECI on #EndTheCageAge 💪🏼🐷🐔🐮🐇

Once again, we ask you to initiate an end of caged farming and a swift transition to free farming systems! #EndTheCageAge #EndTheCageAgeHearing @CIWF_EU @ciwf

Thank you @IVSA_Welfare for supporting the #EndTheCageAge EU Citizens' Initiative, calling on the EU to end the use of cages for farmed animals. We are proud to have the support of IVSA, which represents 40,000 members from 70+ countries, including working veterinarians.👏👏👏

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IVSA's Standing Committee on Animal Welfare decided to support the ECI “End the Cage Age” with a position statement that underlines the necessity of ending caged farming and an immediate transition to free farming systems. You can find our statement here: ivsa.org/wp-content/upl…

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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. Today 𝟮𝟳,𝟭𝟱𝟵 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝘃𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱.

Canada bans whale, dolphin and porpoise captivity. An historic win for marine animals! #FreeWilly hsi.org/news-media/can…

#NatGeoWildlifeTourism nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/…

600.000.000 stray animals in the world. Let's try to be the solution!

#trashtag challenge time.com/5548966/trasht…

A Tanzanian court on Tuesday sentenced a Chinese businesswoman known as the “Ivory Queen” to 15 years in prison for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants to Asia. A major victory in the effort to stamp out poaching in Africa 🐘 nytimes.com/2019/02/19/wor…

1 in 8 bird species worldwide faces the threat of extinction, many of them living in tropical forests where #coffee is grown. We can fight habitat loss by reducing our impact on the environment, including the way we produce coffee. A great start? #DrinkBirdFriendly

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! In the picture: Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall and Birutė Galdikas. 🦍 They were pioneers of their time, observing chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans and uncovering groundbreaking discoveries. #GirlPower #WomenInScience

Stuck for ideas for Animal Welfare Week (4 - 11 March 2019) ? Check out our great toolkit designed to help you organise events throughout the week 🐾🐘💕 #animalwelfare #ivsa #animalwelfareweek

❗SAVE THE DATE ❗ We are very pleased to announce the Animal Welfare Week for the upcoming year! 🎉 What you and your MO could do to improve and promote #animalwelfare in your local communities? "Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

This announcement means that Japan will be able to freely hunt species currently protected by the IWC-International Whaling Commission, the body tasked with whale conservation, and resume whaling in its coastal waters. nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/1…