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Groups join forces to protest use of animals at Olympics

Animal Aid has joined with five leading animal protection groups to protest against the use of live animals in the Olympics opening ceremony. A joint letter has been sent to Bill Morris, Olympics Director of...

Posted 21 Jun 2012

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Olympic ceremony could fall foul of animal welfare laws

Animal Aid has today written to Bill Morris, Director of Ceremonies of the London Olympics Organising Committee, urging him to end the planned use of live animals at the opening ceremony, and to remind him...

Posted 13 Jun 2012

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The new EU vivisection directive: time for government action

The government yesterday (May 17th) made clear how it intends to translate into domestic legislation a new European Directive governing the conduct of animal experiments across the European Union. The government’s plans were laid out...

Posted 18 May 2012

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Friday’s BHA whip meeting: the not so innocent jockey victims

Despite having forced racing’s regulator to twice dilute the new whipping rules introduced on 10 October 2011, jockeys’ representatives meet tomorrow (Friday, 20 January) with the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) in what appears to be...

Posted 19 Jan 2012

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List of sanctuaries

This is a list of sanctuaries with large and/or farmed animals but there are many, many more sanctuaries out there doing great work.

Posted 19 Dec 2011