Every day in China, South Korea, Indonesia and Vietnam, thousands of dogs are unfortunate enough to become victims of the dog meat trade. 🐶😔 Some are snatched from their families or from the streets, crammed into the back of trucks, sick, hungry, thirsty, injured and

🐾 Protect companion animals and wildlife 🐾 Improve farm animal welfare 🐾 Promote animal-free testing methods 🐾 Reform industries that harm animals. Our mission is to create a better world for all animals! We work to end the cruelest practices toward #animals, care for

In my latest OpEd, I ask whether Denmark’s recently approved €20 million State Aid scheme to improve #pig welfare & eliminate #taildocking will serve to inspire other Member States to take similar action? 🐷#animalwelfare euractiv.com/section/agricu…

Around 134 million pigs are farmed for food in the EU. The vast majority will undergo surgical mutilation at a tender age generally without the use of anaesthesia or pain relief, highlight HSI/Europe. Read more here. [Promoted content]

All creatures deserve to live freely, without pain, fear or suffering. However, this is often not the reality for farmed animals like pigs. 🐽 It is crucial that pig production becomes more focused on animal welfare than on economics. We aim to transform animal agriculture by

#Fact: People travel abroad to shoot endangered species like black rhinos for entertainment and the resulting trophies can be legally imported here in Europe. 😱 EU trophy hunters kill for kicks many thousands of wild animals around the globe to display their body parts as

Our help to animals and families affected by the tragedy of war in Ukraine doesn't stop! 🐾 🇺🇦 Through our partner in Romania, the Red Panda Association, we are providing animal feed in the extremely affected areas of Ukraine. In Romania, we provide veterinary care for animals

HSI teamed up with local Romanian NGO, Sache Association, to bring a mobile vet clinic to Valea Plopului, a refuge for survivors of domestic violence and their animals. 🐾❤️ With hundreds of animals in need of care, our amazing team provided much-needed veterinary services. 🐶🐱

👉 Last month, Türkiye passed a law requiring municipalities to remove the country’s estimated 4 million stray dogs and put them into shelters. Unfortunately, the country lacks adequate shelter space to accommodate these animals, and most municipalities have no shelters at all.

#SadFact: Over 134 million pigs are farmed in the EU every year, with most enduring the painful and unnecessary practice of tail-docking. Despite being banned under the EU Pigs Directive, this cruel procedure continues in nearly every Member State —except for Finland and Sweden.

Summer holidays are almost over, but not our fight against the cruel trophy hunting imports into the EU! 💪 ❌ Trophy hunting harms conservation by exacerbating the population decline of many imperiled species, like rhinos. Conservation can never be achieved down the barrel of

Hundreds of thousands of wild mammals, including endangered species, fall victim to trophy hunters each year. Only a tiny minority of EU citizens engage in trophy hunting, yet the EU is the world’s second-largest importer of hunting trophies. We advocate for stricter EU

Mass killing of street dog populations is neither humane nor effective. ❌ Urge Türkiye to manage dogs humanely! 💪 Add your name in support of our message to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Türkiye asking for humane treatment of street dogs and effective solutions to the

The fight to end the dog meat trade in Indonesia requires collective action. HSI is a member of the Dog Meat Free Indonesia Coalition, working alongside local advocates to save dogs and introduce regional bans on the trade. Our ultimate goal is a national ban that ends the

🐺 As the Council's Working Party on the Environment prepares to discuss wolf protection in the EU, let's remember that wolves are a keystone species, essential to Europe's ecological health. Let's do all we can to protect them. #SaveTheWolf Sign here 👉 secure.avaaz.org/Stopwolfhunting

Show compassion to farmed animals by removing them from your plate and replacing them with delicious and nutritious plant-based foods.⁠⁣ #HSIEurope #FarmAnimalWelfare

At present, there is a loophole in EU legislation that still allows nationally protected wild animal species, which have been trafficked into international trade flows, to be sold legally in Europe as exotic pets. We advocate for strict rules against illegal wildlife trade to

❗Millions of dogs at risk. Türkiye recently enacted a new law that will undoubtably involve mass euthanasia and deaths of large numbers of dogs. An estimated four million stray and street dogs have been ordered for removal—required to go to animal shelters that are already

“While it is laudable that President von der Leyen has acknowledged the importance of animal welfare by including it in the title of a new Commissioner, this really is no substitute for decisive action on animal welfare. The European Commission has fallen miserably short on its

📢🐺 Alongside over 300 civil society organisations, HSI/Europe, is urging EU Member States to strengthen - not weaken - protection for wolves. We stand firmly against the European Commission’s proposal to downgrade their protection under the Bern Convention and we are calling on