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Working with China on Wildlife Issues

by Dr. Peter Li Last month, HSI staff traveled to China with the mission of improving animal welfare in zoos and protection in the wild. Reaching zoo directors HSI invited world-renowned elephant researcher Dr. Joyce Poole and Vice Director of Houston Zoo David Brady to speak to 48 Chinese zoo

Working with Financial Institutions to Improve Farm Animal Welfare

HSI’s Farm Animal Welfare and Protection program works with producers, restaurant companies, supermarkets, manufacturers, food service providers and hotel chains to transition their animal agriculture production and supply chains to higher welfare systems. Financial institutions such as commercial

Workshop empowers egg producers to shift to cage-free systems for hens

SÃO PAULO—Last week, producers raising hens for their eggs gathered in the countryside of São Paulo state, the largest egg-producing state in Brazil, to boost their knowledge of the scientific foundation behind cage-free housing systems. The workshop, which was hosted by global animal protection

World Egg Day highlights Singapore’s growing preference for cage-free eggs

This Friday, on World Egg Day, Humane Society International celebrates the growing number of Singaporeans buying cage-free eggs. The Singaporean cage-free market has grown over the past two years, with at least five brands of cage-free eggs now available at supermarkets in the city-state. A growing

World Environment Day: How eating green can help save our planet

Billions of people are called to take a green step towards reducing their carbon footprint for World Environment Day, 5 June 2017. This year’s theme, "Connecting People to Nature," aims to encourage us to appreciate nature, consider how intimately we depend on it, and make an effort to protect the

World Health Organization and others recommend countries to urgently suspend trade in wild mammals and close food markets selling wild mammals

WASHINGTION—Earlier this week, the World Health Organization (WHO), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released a guidance urging governments around the world to take immediate action to reduce the risk of zoonotic disease spread in traditional

Organizația Mondială a Sănătății și alte foruri internaționale recomandă statelor lumii, să suspende de urgență comerțul cu mamifere sălbatice și să închidă piețele care vând mamifere sălbatice

WASHINGTON—Săptămâna trecută, Organizația Mondială a Sănătății (OMS), Organizația Mondială Pentru Sănătate Animală (OIE) și Programul Organizației Națiunilor Unite pentru Mediu (UNEP) au emis un ghid de măsuri prin care cer guvernelor din întreaga lume să ia măsuri imediate pentru a reduce

World Health Organization implicates fur farming in search for origins of COVID-19 pandemic

MONTREAL—The World Health Organization has published its report, WHO-convened Global Study of the Origins of SARS-CoV-2, and identified fur farming as an area of interest in the search for the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The joint WHO-China study suggests that wild animals intensively bred

Światowa Organizacja Zdrowia wskazuje na hodowle zwierząt na futra analizując źródła pandemii COVID-19

MONTREAL—Światowa Organizacja Zdrowia opublikowała raport — globalną ekspertyzę na temat pochodzenia wirusa SARS-CoV-2 — w którym wskazuje hodowlę zwierząt futerkowych jako obszar zainteresowania w poszukiwaniu źródeł pandemii koronawirusa. Autorzy ekspertyzy, przeprowadzonej we współpracy z Chinami

World Lion Day sees South Africa tarnished by captive lion industry

CAPE TOWN—South Africa is not a good place for lions today, on World Lion Day—and it won’t be tomorrow either, with an estimated 11,000 lions held captive in more than 300 facilities across the country. The captive lion breeding industry is marked by ongoing exposure of poor conditions and welfare

World Oceans Day event honours conservationist Rob Stewart’s memory, calls on federal government to ban products of shark finning

At an event held ahead of World Oceans Day (June 8), along with Lush Cosmetics and the family of the late Canadian filmmaker and conservationist, Rob Stewart, Humane Society International/Canada is calling on the federal government to ban the import of products of shark finning. Gabriel Wildgen

World Trade Organization

Sea turtle conservation, seal and dolphin protection, animal health and food safety, and humane sustainable agriculture are examples of environmental- and animal- related issues discussed, negotiated, and sometimes disputed at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO is comprised of 159 member

World Trade Organization Rules for Seals, Says Animal Welfare Counts

The World Trade Organization today issued a final decision in its ruling to the inhumane global seal trade, and gave a precedent-setting boost to our domestic and international efforts to prevent animal abuse. The international body that sets the rules of the road on global trade matters has upheld

World Veterinary Day: new training empowers adoption of humane and innovative procedures for street dogs

INDIA—To celebrate World Veterinary Day, Humane Society International/India launches an innovative street dog spay and neuter training program to equip veterinary professionals, animal welfare organisations and relevant government agencies with essential skills to improve the well-being of dogs

Yahoo! Japan announces end of ivory sales; spells the end of Japan’s ivory trade, says Humane Society International

GENEVA—Yahoo! Japan announced last night that it will cease selling elephant ivory products on its e-commerce platforms beginning November 1, 2019. Global animal charity Humane Society International welcomed the news from Geneva where its wildlife team is attending the 18 th Conference of the

Yoh Daikan of Yomiuri Giants urges Japanese public to join global effort to save elephants

TOKYO—Baseball player and animal lover Yoh Daikan and global animal protection group Humane Society International have come together to call on the Japanese public to protect elephants from the poaching and ivory trafficking epidemic. Yoh, an outfielder with the Yomiuri Giants, one of the

YouGov poll reveals vast majority (93%) of Brits don’t wear real animal fur and do support a #FurFreeBritain; Government urged to end UK fur sales

LONDON—British citizens overwhelmingly agree that the time has come for Britain to be fur-free. A new YouGov opinion poll, commissioned by animal charity Humane Society International/UK, reveals that 93% of the British population reject wearing real animal fur, and the majority (72%) support a

Young Koreans feel pressured to eat dog meat by their elders despite concerns about animal cruelty and hygiene, new survey finds

SEOUL, South Korea—More than half of South Koreans in their 20s who have consumed dog meat in the past year, felt social pressure to do so from influential seniors such as their father or senior colleagues at work, a new survey finds. While the majority of respondents in this age group did not

Yucatan celebrates four consecutive years of a cruelty-free fiesta

IZAMAL—For the fourth consecutive year, the cruelty-free Fiesta de San Bartolo replaced Kots Kaal Pato, the brutal Yucatan ritual of stringing up animals inside piñatas and beating them to death or cutting off their heads. Humane Society International/Mexico has been working on the ground with local

Yucatán holds its third cruelty-free San Bartolo Festival

IZAMAL, YUCATÁN, Mexico—The San Bartolo Festival in Izamal took place without cruelty to animals once again this year. It has been three years since Kots Kaal Pato, an event at which participants broke piñatas filled with live animals and slit the throats of ducks. These activities areno longer part