Happy New Year! May 2017 be a kinder year for animals.
As we prepare for an ambitious 2017, we take a look back at everything we’ve been working on over the last year in our 2016 Snapshot.
The Model Animal Welfare Act is in print!
Now available on our website in print format, purchases of the Model Act enable us to cover international shipping costs to ensure that policymakers, wherever they may be, have this book at their fingertips. Purchase the book here.
From the WAN Blog
- Last month we attended the 4th Global Animal Welfare Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, where we collaborated with other animal protection organizations in a unified strategy and gave hundreds of copies of the Model Animal Welfare Act to policymakers around the world. Read more...
- Start your 2017 advocacy on the right foot! Get the basics of strategic advocacy and more in our Effective Advocacy Backgrounder. Read more...
International News
- New academic review shows that chickens are more intelligent and emotional than previously known. Read more...
- China to ban ivory trade by end of 2017. Read more...
- German MP calls for vegetarian meat substitutes to no longer be allowed to use the names of their analogs. Read more...
- Cheetahs more likely to become extinct than previously thought. Read more...
- 2017 will be a dangerous year for antibiotic resistance, as more antibiotics will be consumed by farm animals than humans. Read more...
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