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With less than a month to go until the EU elections, a large number of prospective MEPs have already signed up to “Vote for Animals 2019”, committing to support animal welfare once elected.

Launched by the Eurogroup for Animals, the pledge campaign has already secured approximately 440
signatures from candidate MEPs from across the political spectrum and all EU Member States, and this number is growing every day.

The pledge calls on MEP candidates to ensure that animal sentience and its implications are acknowledged in all relevant legislative proposals...

Almere, March 28th 2019 - The coalition of animal welfare organisations Animals Asia has sent a harsh letter to travel platform TripAdvisor denouncing ongoing animal cruelty in the attractions promoted by the company. Despite TripAdvisor’s much-advertised new animal welfare policy, in the last 12 months evidence has been found of “tours involving the eating of endangered species, the performance of protected wild species and the riding of elephants being sold.”

AAP Animal Advocacy and Protection (AAP) shares these concerns and has co-signed...

With less than 100 days to go until the European Parliament elections of 23–26 May 2019, the #Vote4Animals campaign has gone live! The upcoming elections are a critical moment to determine the European Union’s political priorities for the next five-year term. More specifically, the elections offer an important opportunity to ensure that animal welfare features prominently among those EU priorities. We know from experience that we can make more political progress on animal welfare at European level when Members of the European Parliament are committed to this cause.

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Brussels, March 3rd 2019 – Today, on the occasion of World Wildlife Day, NGO AAP Animal Advocacy and Protection reiterates its call for EU legislation that protects wild animals – and citizens – in Europe. In particular, wild animals in circuses should be a thing of the past, with an increasing number of organisations calling for a ban at EU level.

Over the past 20 years, more than 300 incidents involving over 600 wild animals were recorded, which is on average 15 per year in the whole of the EU, some of them fatal[1]. Incidents continue to occur...

One happy ending for two stories which could have ended in tragedy: lioness Nala, rescued from appalling circumstances at an illegal circus breeder in France, is set to join Saeed, a young male saved from a war-torn zoo close to Aleppo, at a big cat sanctuary in South Africa. The relocation is a joint project of animal welfare organizations AAP Animal Advocacy and Protection and FOUR PAWS.

Almere, The Netherlands, 12th October 2018 - In 2017 animal welfare organization AAP Animal Advocacy and Protection (AAP) conducted a major rescue operation from an...