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Featured article: Air Canada and Transat commit to stop selling and promoting cruel dolphin entertainment

October 30 2019

The commitment made by these Canadian travel companies will help put an end to the cruel dolphin entertainment industry and shift tourist demand toward more ethical experiences

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Animals in entertainment

Wins for animals

Use of antibiotics in farmed animals

November 18 2019

Today (November 18) marks the start of World Antibiotic Awareness Week which aims to increase global awareness of antibiotic resistance and to encourage best practices among the general public, health workers and policy makers to avoid the further emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance.

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Animals in farming

Amazon Response Recap: Arriving in Rio Branco & saving baby animals

November 15 2019

This fall, our disaster response team headed to the Amazon in Brazil to protect animals from the dangerous forest fires

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Animals in disasters

Disaster response team

New expansion opens at Balkasar bear sanctuary

November 08 2019

Thanks to your support the bears can now explore the new, luscious enclosures.

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Animals in entertainment

Piglets are forced to endure painful mutilations in intensive farming. It’s time to end their suffering.

November 05 2019

As one of the most intensively farmed animals on the planet, pigs suffer from the moment they are born

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Animals in farming

Factory farming

Cruel wildlife performances continue at world zoo association’s member venues

November 04 2019

Wild animals are continuing to endure appalling suffering at some of the world’s ‘top’ zoos and aquariums – all associated with the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA). We’re going to WAZA’s annual conference this week in Argentina to tell it to put an end to this cruelty

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Animals in entertainment

Higher welfare chicken farming is not as expensive as you thought

November 02 2019

Our landmark report, Valuing Higher Chicken Welfare, shows that producing higher welfare chicken is far cheaper than previously believed

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Animals in farming

Change for chickens

Sunwing and WestJet join growing list of Canadian companies putting an end to cruel dolphin entertainment

November 01 2019

Following the release of our latest report, Sunwing and WestJet are the latest Canadian companies to report that they will stop selling and promoting dolphin suffering

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Animals in entertainment

Animals in the wild

Wins for animals

Ontario introduces new animal welfare legislation, but does it go far enough?

October 29 2019

The Ministry of the Solicitor General announced today a new model for the protection of animals in Ontario. The bill that will be introduced on October 29th is called the Provincial Animal Welfare Services (PAWS) Act

The seven biggest lies the dolphin industry tells

October 24 2019

Dolphins are wild animals not entertainers. We’re exposing the seven most dangerous myths the multi-billion dollar captive dolphin industry tells the world

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Animals in entertainment

The reality of Canada’s exotic pets – unwanted and disposed

October 15 2019

While many owners of wild animals are well-intentioned, other are less so. Shelters and vets from across Canada have told us that many people surrender their exotic pets due to a lack of interest in providing proper care for them.

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Exotic pets

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Featured article: Air Canada and Transat commit to stop selling and promoting cruel dolphin entertainment

Use of antibiotics in farmed animals

Amazon Response Recap: Arriving in Rio Branco & saving baby animals

New expansion opens at Balkasar bear sanctuary

Piglets are forced to endure painful mutilations in intensive farming. It’s time to end their suffering.

Cruel wildlife performances continue at world zoo association’s member venues

Higher welfare chicken farming is not as expensive as you thought

Sunwing and WestJet join growing list of Canadian companies putting an end to cruel dolphin entertainment

Ontario introduces new animal welfare legislation, but does it go far enough?

The seven biggest lies the dolphin industry tells

The reality of Canada’s exotic pets – unwanted and disposed

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