OCEANS ARE IN TROUBLE
Oceans cover 70 percent of the globe and the marine environment encompasses a broad array of ecosystems, representing 90 percent of the habitat on...
DOG HUNTING BILL DEBATED IN CHILEAN PARLIAMENT: OIPA CHILE PROTESTS
The Committee on Agriculture of the Chamber of Deputies in Chile has recently introduced a bill (Boletín N°12271-01) that would allow hunting of...
HELPING STRAY DOGS IN GABON
Mr. Che Gilbert Ayunwi, OIPA’s representative in Cameroon, has been on a trip in Gabon to better understand the living conditions of the local stray...
LOCKED IN A DARK GARAGE, ENTIRELY COVERED WITH LAYERS OF DIRT, FECES AND HAIRS: THE OIPA BRESCIA ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICERS SEIZED AN ELDERLY DOG
This dog was locked in a dark garage with no windows, entirely covered with multiple layers of hairs, feces and dirt to the extent that it was...
OIPA TUNISIA, EVERY DAY A NEW EMERGENCY
OIPA volunteers in Tunisia rescue injured cats and dogs nonstop. Last Friday it was the turn of Oscar. When our volunteer Emanuela saw him while...
JOY, MICKY AND SAMI: THREE NICE DOGS RESCUED BY OIPA IN TUNISIA
Our volunteers in Tunisia are always super busy. Tunisia cannot be considered a pet-friendly country; cats and dogs are killed every day. Most...
PARROTS: THE STRANGE HABIT OF THROWING FOOD AWAY
In animal kingdom, there is great competition for food. For this, the habit of parrots of eating only part of the food they have on hand while...
AFTER THEIR OWNER DIES, 15 PETS REMAIN ALONE. OIPA CHILE INTERVENES
Last November 14, a friend, an animal rights activist left this world. Karin was a young woman, she lived in the city of Chillan, Chile. She was...
CHILE PROTESTS: OIPA RESCUES THE MOST VULNERABLE DOGS
Chile’s worst unrest in decades has transformed into a nationwide uprising for change. Tens of thousands have taken to the streets of the country....
SPREADING RESPECT FOR DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN CAMEROON
Thanks to a grant from AKI Animal Kind International and in collaboration with the Ministry of Livestock, OIPA Cameroon had the opportunity to...
ANIMAL HOARDING: 9 CATS FIND THEIR LOST FREEDOM
Ravenna, Italy – Locked inside a home owned by a person with hoarding disorder, the cats were held in very bad hygienic-sanitary conditions. 9 cats...
BATS, ONE OF THE SPOOKIEST IMAGES OF HALLOWEEN
Bats, one of the first images that come to mind when you think of Halloween! Let’s see together some facts and folklore about bats! ITS ROLE IN...
TIHAR, A NEPALI FESTIVAL THAT CELEBRATES ANIMALS
There is a special festival in Nepal, during which people honour animals and their sacred and unique bond with humans. Since Tihar celebrates the...
INDIA PLANS TO COUNT ITS SNOW LEOPARD POPULATION
Called “the ghost of the mountains”, the snow leopard is an elusive big feline native to the snowy mountain areas of Central and South Asia. Snow...
Zimbabwe: elephants and humans waiting for the rain
55 elephants have died in the past month because of severe drought in Zimbabwe’s biggest national park Despite the number of African elephants has...
TWO MORTIFIED SOULS: LUI AND LEI, CONDEMNED WITHOUT ANY FAULT
When they saw some human beings coming in the hovel where they were kept tethered, they felt no relief. They didn’t wag their tails. They were...
FISTULATED COWS: ANIMALS AS PRODUCTIVE MACHINES
Shocking and barbaric practices are common in animal experimentation for productive purposes. However, the livestock sector has really gone too far...
RODEOS IN CHILE: A TRADITIONAL FORM OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
In Chile, rodeo is considered as a national sport, as well as an important cultural tradition. It mainly consists in pinning a cow up against a...
THE UGLY SIDE OF GREEK ISLANDS – DONKEYS USED AS TAXIS FOR LAZY AND OVERWEIGHT TOURISTS
Each summer, we receive a whole lot of alerts of tourists that come back from Greece complaining about the dire conditions in which donkeys are kept...
OIPA CAMEROON AT THE AFRICA ANIMAL WELFARE CONFERENCE
The Africa Animal Welfare Conference is an annual conference co-hosted by Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW) in collaboration with UN...
CITES CoP18: MAJOR OUTCOMES
17-28 August 2019 - Representatives from more than 180 states met to discuss the protection of over 500 threatened plant and animal species. The...
RESCUING INJURED DOGS IN TUNISIA
OIPA volunteers in Tunisia are taking care of a high number of stray and abandoned cats and dogs. Thay rescue one or more animals almost...
STERILISATION OF CATS AND FOOD DONATIONS TO A DOG SHELTER IN AZERBAIJAN
August was an intense and challenging month full of activities for OIPA Azerbaijan! Thanks to your donations, it was possible to start a feral cats...
DOGS AS BY-PRODUCTS OF HUNTING: GEMMA, SWEET HUNTING DOG, GIVES BIRTH TO 7 PUPPIES IN A WOODEN FRUIT BOX IN PALERMO, ITALY
Those who view hunting as a sport like any other, enjoyed by people who call themselves “lovers of nature and animals” should think long and...
POINTERS USED FOR DOG SLEDDING IN CHILEAN MOUNTAINS: OIPA CHILE PROTESTS
After one month of investigation, OIPA Chile filed an animal welfare complaint together with the local associations Search Chillán Chile. The...
BREAKTHROUGH RULING- SOUTH AFRICA’S LION BONE EXPORT QUOTA DEEMED ‘UNLAWFUL AND CONSTITUTIONALLY INVALID’
Great news from South Africa! We welcome the High Court of South Africa Gauteng Division’s ruling on 2017 and 2018 quotas for the exportation of...
THE FELINE OASIS OF ASCOLI PICENO URGENTLY NEEDS MEDICINES! EVEN THE SMALLEST CONTRIBUTION CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
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LET’S FREE THE MACAQUES!
On July 6th, over a thousand people, including citizens, associations and animal rights activists, gathered and marched peacefully on the streets of...
CRUEL DOG POPULATION MANAGEMENT METHODS IN EGYPT
Our email box is bombarded by emails of tourists and citizens that report cases of killing of free roaming dogs in Egypt. For this, we have...
AZERBAIJAN: STOP MASS KILLING OF STRAY DOGS! Sign the petition!
OIPA International and OIPA Azerbaijan sent official letters to the main local, national and international institutions in Azerbaijan over a month...
CHILE: A GOOD FIRST STEP TOWARDS THE ABOLITION OF GREYHOUND RACING
July 3, 2019 was a historic day in Chile. The Chamber of Deputies’ Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources approved a draft law on the...
CHILE: UN BUEN PRIMER PASO HASTA LA PROHIBICION DE CARRERAS DE GALGOS
Ayer 03/07/2019 fue un día histórico en Chile. La Comisión de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de la Cámara de Diputados ha aprobado el proyecto...
LITTLE MUSINGS ABOUT YULIN FESTIVAL
LITTLE MUSINGS ABOUT YULIN FESTIVAL Meat-eating is still a common grotesque, cruel and unacceptable human habit. In livestock farming, the...
SOUTH AFRICAN 2019 LION BONE EXPORT QUOTA
SOUTH AFRICAN LION BONE EXPORT QUOTA Over this June 2019, inside the South African context, the topic of the revision lion bone export quota has...
THE FREE COWS FROM DESZCZNO MUST REMAIN FREE
THE FREE COWS FROM DESZCZNO MUST REMAIN FREE 180 free and happy cows ordered slaughtered in Poland Western municipality of Deszczno, Poland, 2009....
‘LIGHTUP’: VIVISECTION EXPERIMENTS AT THE ITALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TURIN
VIVISECTION EXPERIMENTS AT THE ITALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TURIN: 'LIGHTUP – Turning the cortically blind brain to see: From neural computations to system...
GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED ANIMAL ABUSE IN PALESTINE
While no official statistics exists, approximately 10,000 homeless animals roam the streets of the Bethlehem Governorate alone. These animals have...
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ANIMAL WELFARE EDUCATION OUTREACH IN 14 PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN THE WEST REGION, CAMEROON
A dynamic fragment of the OIPA Cameroon’s assignment is to use education as a tool to raise awareness on animal issues amongst children especially...
OIPA NEPAL LATEST UPDATES: A DOG INJURED BY A HUMAN STREET ATTACK, ABANDONED COWS AND CALVES, AND DRISTI, A BLIND DOG
DOG INJURED BY A HUMAN STREET ATTACK IN BUDOL On the 20th April 2019, another extreme case put in an urgent difficult situation OIPA Nepal / Nepal...
1 MILLION SPECIES THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION, IPBES WARNS
Thanks to human pressure, a million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades. The findings come from a...
AZERBAIJAN: THE SLAUGHTER OF STRAY DOGS CONTINUES
Today we received a desperate appeal from the animal rights community of Azerbaijan. Dogs mass executions are daily committed across the country....
DRISTI, A BLIND DOG ABANDONED IN A NOODLES BOX IN NEPAL
DRISTI, A BLIND DOG DUMPED IN FRONT OF OIPA NEPAL / NAWRC, NEEDS HELP! Some days ago a scruffy she-dog was abandoned in a noodles box in front of...
NEW VISIONS UPON THE CHILEAN CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
FOR THE SPANISH VERSION OF THE ARTICLE SEE BELOW PARA LA VERSIÓN ESPAÑOLA DEL ARTÍCULO VEA ABAJO NEW VISIONS UPON THE CHILEAN CRUELTY TO ANIMALS...
IN A VAN FROM EIGHT HOURS URINE-SOAKED AND COVERED IN THEIR OWN POOP, READY TO BE EMBARKED TOWARDS MOROCCO
OIPA ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICERS HAVE RESCUED TWO PUPPIES IN THE PORT OF GENOA! Two two-month-old dog puppies were found by the animal control officers...
AUSTRALIA’S FERAL CATS WAR – SEND A LETTER OF PROTEST
AUSTRALIA’S NEW PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1: CATS Let’s begin by saying that cats are not indigenous to Australia and they did not ask to come to the...
OIPA-CAMEROON IS PLEADING FOR DONATIONS TO HELP A POOR FAMILY KEEP THE RESCUED PUPPY THEY LOVE
US$350 will provide a pen/kennel, food, neuter surgery, and vet care for two years. Debora Lum and her eight-year-old granddaughter, Nangah...
MISSION “GOD HANUMAAN”: CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION!
MISSION “GOD HANUMAAN”: CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION! A monkey kept inside a cage in a Nepalese temple needs your support! OIPA International has just...
COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE, GO VEGAN
On the mass media, we have recently had the pleasure to know about Greta Thunberg, the Swedish girl who only seven months ago, every Friday would...
NUTRIA: STERILISATION BY LAPAROSCOPY.
NUTRIA: STERILISATION BY LAPAROSCOPY. A TRULY INNOVATIVE END EFFECTIVE IDEA TO TACKLE THE SPREAD OF “INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES” There is a growing...
Croatia: MARCH FOR ANIMALS 2019
“Complete liberation of animals is the only means of liberation of man”. CROATIA - Saturday, April 13, 2019 was the day for the 3rd March for...
