Deer in Rock Creek Park
by Gillian Lyons, Animal Blawg — Our thanks to Animal Blawg for permission to republish this post, which first appeared on their site on January 9, 2013. For years debates have been raging across the...
View ArticleBritish Badgers Being Shot for the Sake of Cattle
by Lorraine Murray In the last week of August, the British government began a controversial six-week “pilot cull” of badgers in several areas of the countryside, employing marksmen to shoot and kill...
View ArticleBadgers of Britain: An Update on the 2013 Badger Cull
by Lorraine Murray –See second update below: December 2013 –Update: November 2013 Two months ago, Advocacy for Animals published the following report on a controversial badger “cull” that the UK...
View ArticleStepping Forward for Strays in Romania and the EU
by the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) Our thanks to WSPA for permission to republish this post, which appeared on their site on May 15, 2014. The number of stray dogs in Romania is...
View ArticleAnimals in the News
by Gregory McNamee There’ll always be an England. But if England is eternal, it is also a place that poses certain challenges to its inhabitants, and for that we can look to the cow. The cow, you say?...
View ArticleBuried Alive: South Korea’s Animal Culls
by Lorraine Murray Today we revisit an Advocacy article from 2011 on the mass killing of infected, and suspected infected, farm animals in South Korea. The practice is not unique to that country, but...
View ArticleResponse to Dog Culling in Bali, Indonesia
This is a misguided effort and the Balinese Government is undermining the highly successful vaccination programme it previously invested in. Culling dogs is both cruel and pointless, as dog numbers...
View ArticleAiming to End Rabies by 2030
The campaign's goal is to bring rabies back to the attention of world leaders and policy makers, meaning we can make sure they commit to stamping out the disease by 2030.
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