During the heatwave with temperatures reaching 40 °C, we monitored animal transport in eastern France in collaboration with the French animal welfare organisation Welfarm. Despite the extreme temperatures, pigs and cattle were transported hundreds of kilometres across Europe. This is a clear violation of the EU Transport Regulation and a serious…

17,000 people have already signed our petition for a legal ban on PMSG in Switzerland. Last Wednesday, we handed over the signatures to the Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA). The Federal Council will soon be considering the motion for a ban on PMSG. With these signatures, we want to make it clear to the Federal Council that thousands of…

The article ‘Why animal transports to Turkey are not eligible for approval’, published in the legal journal 'Tier- und Artenschutz in Recht und Praxis (TiRuP)', provides a well-founded legal analysis and a clear verdict: animal transports to Turkey are not compatible with current animal welfare law in Germany – and are therefore not eligible for…

In Poland, we won a legal battle that lasted more than five years. It concerned a calf transport on its way from Lithuania to Israel, which we stopped in Poland in 2019 – and in which we found catastrophic conditions. The unweaned calves had hardly any space, were hungry and thirsty, and some had already died. The first-instance ruling was…

Austrian media outlets, including the country's highest-circulation daily newspaper ‘Kronen Zeitung’, are reporting extensively on the latest investigation by ‘The Marker’ and ‘SOKO Tierschutz’. The two organisations have uncovered, in a complex investigation, how unweaned calves from Austria were transported to a fattening farm in Spain – in some…

The EU Parliament is currently discussing the Commission's proposal to revise the Animal Transport Regulation. However, there is considerable disagreement among the political groups about the wording of the new law. It is therefore essential that we remain in dialogue with the parliamentarians involved and explain why urgent changes to the law are…

The port of Haifa is considered the most important port for animal transports by sea in Israel. Although the country is currently at war with Iran, the EU continues to export animals to Israel. This is unacceptable. Together with 22 other animal welfare organisations, we have called on the responsible EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi to immediately…

In May, we returned to the port of Cartagena to document animal transports on site. During our investigation, we saw countless trucks arriving at the port, loaded with thousands of frightened lambs that had already endured an agonising journey in overcrowded transporters, without sufficient space, water or rest breaks. In the scorching heat, many…

Zusammen mit unserer Partnerorganisation in Island, Dýraverndarsamband Íslands (DÍS), haben wir die gravierenden Tierschutzverstöße, die wir bei unserer Recherche in Island vorgefunden haben, der Polizei gemeldet. Die isländischen Behörden müssen handeln, bevor die nächste Blutsaison losgeht.