Political Animal Lobby | Informing and enforcing animal welfare legislation

28 April 2020
South African government plans to make it legal to use endangered species for human meat
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12 DEC 2017
Extermination of dogs in Turkey
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12 DEC 2017
Street dogs of Dubrovnik
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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.

Latest appeals

Victory for common sense as sterilization ban is overruled

We asked PAL supporters to sign a petition asking the South African government to reverse its lockdown ban on sterilizing street dogs during the corona crisis. The government acted and we are pleased to report that spaying and neutering is now taking…

25 May/by Superseed

South Africa’s Despicable Live Wildlife Trade With China

12 May/by Superseed

Conservation Organizations, Wildlife Under Threat as Tourism Collapses During Worldwide Lockdowns

11 May/by Superseed

Last of the Mhorr Gazelles Dies in Tunisia, Another Species Extinct

7 May/by Superseed

Cartoon Illustrated by Matt Pritchett – Telegraph Cartoonist

7 May/by Superseed

Widespread Opposition To Wet Markets Across Asia

5 May/by Rags

Humans are to blame for the COVID epidemic, say scientists

Macedonia’s street dog problem

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

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

Badger killings

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

Elephants and rhinos

PAL is lobbying the British government to ban the trade in ivory trinkets that is fuelling demand for ivory and providing opportunities for laundering illegal ivory. 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

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

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

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

28 April 2020

12 DEC 2017