In 2014, Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) launched a campaign entitled "End the Cage Age" to end the use of cages for farmed animals in the European Union (EU). Toward the end of 2018, CIWF registered a European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) with the European Commission...
ChallengeOn July 30, 2024, the Turkish parliament voted 275 to 224 to pass a law directing municipalities to remove homeless dogs from the streets and place them in shelters for adoption. The government estimates there are around 4 million homeless dogs in Turkey. At the...
Multiple organizations, including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), are actively monitoring and documenting the increase in climate-related legal cases in the 21st century. The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, established in 2009, maintains a global database of climate litigation. It...
The Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 3, 1964. The USA system of wilderness areas now includes over 800 areas covering more than 110 million acres. Currently, all but six states—Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, and Rhode Island—have...
On Monday, June 17, 2024, 20 out of the 27 countries in the European Union (EU) voted to adopt the world's first Nature Restoration Law. The law passed with a slim majority, as Leonore Gewessler, the Austrian Minister for Climate Action, decided at the last...
Since the 1959 publication of the Russell and Burch book on the Principles of Humane Experimental Technique, there has been conflict over the appropriate terminology to use when addressing the ethical issues involving laboratory animals and biomedical research and testing. Russell and Burch enunciated the...
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (The more things change, the more they stay the same)Historical Context. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I into space. I remember, as a boy looking for the moving light spot that was the satellite...
The incredible story of Willie B was influenced by the aspirations of Mayor William Barry Hartsfield, who served twenty-four years as Mayor of Atlanta, and the leadership of Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who had the courage and the vision to reimagine Atlanta’s zoological park when...
In 2015, the Australian government pledged to reduce the feral cat population in the country by one-third (about 2 million cats) by 2020. Reportedly, just over 200,000 feral cats were killed in the first year after the plan was announced, mostly poisoned with 1080 in...
The Nexus between Animal Welfare, the Environment, and Sustainable Development was the focus of a Resolution (sponsored by six African states and Pakistan) passed by consensus at the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in March of 2022. The Resolution requested the United Nations Environment...
