Political Animal Lobby | Informing and enforcing animal welfare legislation

5 August 2020
Poachers lay TREE BRANCH GLUE TRAPS to cruelly capture African Grey parrots for the illegal international pet market!

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27 July 2020
Scientists LINK barbaric trade in gentle pangolins to Covid-19 pandemic!

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8 July 2020
Millions, perhaps billions of rare and threatened frogs face torture and decimation!

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28 April 2020
South African government plans to make it legal to use endangered species for human meat

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PAL educates authorities around the world to improve animal welfare and put an end to animal cruelty.

The organisation works to ensure governments are informed about animal welfare issues and that legislation is enforced. PAL also makes sure that people around the world are alert to animal abuse and exploitation.

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Rhino horn among quack health remedies touted to cure Covid-19

As the coronavirus takes a massive toll on humanity, one would assume that humankind has learned their lesson and stopped using animal body parts like rhino horn in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). If only that were true. The London-based Environmental…

5 August/by Superseed

Key player in the West African ivory cartel has been arrested in Mombasa

29 July/by Superseed

Skating on thin ice: Climate change could see polar bears extinct by 2100

22 July/by Superseed

PAL calls on an infinite ban on the fur trade as the Coronavirus rips through mink farms

14 July/by Jef

Elephant poaching increasing across Africa

9 July/by Superseed

Cold-blooded cruelty sees frogs wiped out in the wild and tortured to death

6 July/by Jef

Nagaland dog meat: Animal rights groups hail ban as ‘major turning point’

Millions, perhaps billions of rare and threatened frogs face torture and decimation!

Right now, as you read this, billions of frogs across the world are being tortured, maimed, and killed. Stolen from the wild, they die in pain. It is estimated that in Asia alone, between 180 million and a billion frogs are currently stolen each year for use in traditional ‘medicine’. Read more

Pangolins are perilously close to being wiped from the face of the earth!

Pangolins are on the verge of extinction. Most people don’t even know what a pangolin is – nor that this shy, nocturnal creature is the most trafficked and hunted animal in the world. Read more

Street dogs in crisis because of cruel corona virus sterilization ban

The coronavirus is causing hardship and death around the world, and has governments everywhere scrambling to save humans. Read more

Philippine Dog Meat Trade

The Philippines is a renowned tourism and business destination in the western Pacific. Heartbreakingly, it harbours a dark secret: The Dog Meat Trade. Read more

Easing the load for donkeys

PAL is lobbying the government of Greece to enforce animal welfare laws and honour its promises to improve the treatment of donkeys in the tourist trade. Read more

North Macedonia’s street dog problem

PAL willing to step in to help North Macedonia’s street dog problem in bid to salvage EU membership bid. Read more

Animal shelters in Montenegro

When the Nikšić Association for Animal Protection (NUZZZ) arrived at the animal shelter outside the town of Nikšić in Montenegro, the only “medicine” available was a drug used to kill dogs. Read more

Badger killings

PAL is lobbying the British government to drop its policy of badger culling which is unsound, unscientific and unacceptable. Read more

Elephants and rhinos

PAL works around the world to end the international trade in ivory and stop the brutal poaching that threatens to wipe out Africa’s iconic elephants and rhinos. Read more

Hunting with hounds

PAL played a key role in lobbying for the Hunting Act of 2004. Now it is watching carefully to make sure the British government doesn’t waver on the issue. Read more

Street dogs of Dubrovnik

PAL is working with the Mayor of Dubrovnik, Mato Francovic, to construct a municipal animal shelter in the Mediterranean town. Read more

Extermination of dogs in Turkey

PAL is lobbying the government of Turkey to address the plight of thousands of dogs engaged in a daily struggle for survival that is so desperate they sometimes feed on their own puppies. Read more

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