When animal welfare advocates, governments and the meat industry engage in areas of mutual interest, we show that humane farming can be both sustainable and profitable.

The Animal Protection Index is a break through project, uniquely bringing together global animal welfare policy and legislation.

It is our responsibility as a tour operator to secure animal welfare – for elephants as well as other animals.

Now that we know more about elephant rides and what the animals have to undergo, it feels totally natural to remove them from our trips.

This World Responsible Tourism Award for Best Animal Welfare Initiative is proof that there is momentum for animal welfare in the tourism industry.

Helping animals, means helping people. When disasters strike, the survival of both people and animals depend on each other.

With the help of partners such as World Animal Protection, we hope that by the year 2030, we will have a rabies free nation.

Robust public education is necessary for people to embrace dog vaccination so as to eradicate this costly, worrying and life threatening disease.

Right now thousands of tourists are searching for wild animal attractions, simply unaware of the abuse behind the scenes. What they don’t realise is that ‘once in a lifetime’ for them, means a lifetime of misery for wild animals.

Dogs – like all animals – have a right to live without suffering. By promoting mass vaccination we are inspiring people to change animals’ lives for the better.

It has been proven that culling is an inefficient and inhumane practice that does not help in eradicating rabies.

This timely decision will drive the IWC to champion initiatives which protect whales from the vast array of threats they face in our oceans today.

Sustainable solutions to our most pressing problems require an intelligent and compassionate approach to animal welfare.

Bears are wild animals, they belong in the wild, yet these animals are forced to suffer a lifetime in captivity for use in traditional medicine

SAN hopes that this will help keep these animals in the wild where they belong.

This latest move is a sign that the coffee industry is taking this problem seriously and taking steps to eliminate unacceptable animal cruelty.

To have our issues included in the draft is truly remarkable and beyond our expectation.

This is a victory not just for seals but for the millions of animals that will be protected in years to come as a result of this landmark decision.

We applaud UTZ Certified for recognising that capturing animals from the wild and keeping them in cramped cages, just to create a novelty ‘luxury’ drink, simply must stop. We now want other certification standards to follow UTZ’s lead and to take a zero tolerance position on caged production methods.