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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...

On World Animal Day, a new poll reveals that 65% of Europeans surveyed condemn the use of wild animals in circuses

Brussels, October 4th 2018 - Wild animals in circuses should be a thing of the past. Or at least this is the opinion of the majority of Europeans surveyed for a new YouGov opinion poll conducted for Netherlands-based NGO AAP Animal Advocacy and Protection on the occasion of World Animal Day.

The survey reveals widespread opposition to the use of wild animals in circuses throughout Europe. The average for all countries surveyed...