Several maritime trade media outlets are currently reporting on the debate surrounding the age of cargo ships used to transport animals. We and other animal welfare organizations have been pointing out for years that outdated and technically deficient vessels endanger the lives of animals and crew during transport. That is why we, together with…

At the Syntagma metro station in central Athens, the Greek NGO “A Promise to Animals” organized a public event on live animal transport. A film was shown there throughout the day—including our video material—making the suffering of animals visible to thousands of travelers.

Representatives of the Greek Ministry of Agriculture and MEP Tilly Metz,…

The OE24.TV animal welfare magazine “Unsere Tiere” reports on our investigative research into blood farms in Uruguay and Argentina. The Mercosur Agreement is intended to facilitate trade between the EU and countries such as Argentina and Uruguay – however, it does not provide for binding animal welfare standards along the production chains. It is…

The Austrian Icelandic Horse Association reports on our research in Iceland in the current issue of its association magazine "Islandpferde in Österreich" (Icelandic horses in Austria). This attention is particularly valuable in view of the fateful year 2026 for blood mares. Now the government and veterinary authorities must decide whether they want…

Several media outlets are reporting on our open letter to the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Together with 35 other animal welfare organizations from around the world, we are calling for binding international rules for animal transport ships. This is in response to repeated serious accidents at sea and the alarming situation of an aging…

Together with 13 international animal welfare organizations, we have sent an urgent letter to EU Health and Animal Welfare Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi. In it, we call for an immediate ban on the production, import, and use of the fertility hormone PMSG/eCG in the European Union.

The background to our demand is the newly published two-year…

A global network of 36 animal welfare and protection organisations around the world has issued an urgent call to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to introduce binding international regulations for livestock carriers, warning that the ageing fleet poses serious and escalating risks to human life, animal welfare, public health and the…

The livestock vessel “Spiridon II”, which was stranded off the Turkish coast for more than a month after a month-long voyage from Uruguay with nearly 3,000 cattle on board, has reappeared in the Libyan city of Benghazi after three days of silence. Our team on site filmed the ship docking in the port area. According to one source on site, animal…