World Animal Protection UK
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The top 10 European financial institutions are massively bankrolling illegal and legal deforestation for meat production in Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado regions, thereby exacerbating climate change, biodiversity loss, public health risks and more.
Our food system faces unprecedented challenges, exacerbated by a lack of clear policy direction and government inaction. Our investigations have revealed that farmed animals in the UK are suffering more than ever as factory farming rises 13% in 5 years.
Powerful calls for change from millions of consumers and the public have led to fewer of the world’s sows being confined to crates throughout their 115-day pregnancies.
It’s past time that the hidden impacts of factory farming were laid bare. Factory farming is the cornerstone of a dangerous industrial food system that profits from the suffering of billions of cruelly farmed animals each year.
Our food system is broken. It is in part causing our climate to change. And now, we are on the edge of, yet another, global human health crisis.
The health and wellbeing of animals, people and our planet are interdependent. Poor animal health and welfare in factory farming negatively affect food safety, our environment and climate.
This report aims to shed light on this funding, the immense animal suffering being financed by the UK, and the subsequent social and environmental impacts of these investments
Millions of wild animals are traded as pets, used as entertainment or tourist attractions, and turned into ornaments, luxury food, fashion products or traditional medicine.
This report outlines the massive scale and profitability of the multi-billion dollar dolphin entertainment industry. It highlights the industry’s links with the corporate investment industry and the suffering of more than 3,000 dolphins for the money that is made from their labour.
West Africa is not only becoming a transit area for wildlife from Central Africa but also a wildlife trade hub as the source of several species of wild animals.
Each year, thousands of saltwater crocodiles are farmed and killed in Australia for their skins. Fashion Victims details the disturbing plan to greatly expand the Northern Territory crocodile industry by French luxury goods company, Hermès.
In this report, Collective Fashion Justice and World Animal Protection explore the current state of the fashion industry’s use and promotion of clothing, shoes and accessories made from wild animals.
Southeast Asia has seen a massive rise in the popularity of otters as pets. But not only is it cruel and potentially dangerous to keep an otter as a pet, this trend is putting the very future of some otter species at risk.
Belén market, located in Iquitos the capital city of Peru's Loreto Region, is considered the largest and most important open market selling wildlife in the Peruvian Amazon.
The Wildlife.Not Pets. campaign aims to disrupt this industry in order to protect wild animals from being poached or taken from the wild or from being cruelly bred in captivity, just to become someone’s pet.
This report reviews global leaders in the tourism industry on their animal welfare policies and wildlife offers, a topic usually conspicuously missing from the larger responsible tourism discussion.
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