Fundación MONA, a safe haven for chimpanzees and macaques in need … a place to educate and raise awareness … a place to learn, improve and gain experience. This is what our NGO strives to be, achieving in the process a better world for primates. Converting people into part of
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Covid-19 – Stopping the Abuse of Sentient Animals – by Philip Lymbery
Philip Lymbery is the Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming and Chair of Eurogroup for Animals. He is author of the books Farmageddon and Dead Zone. Here he describes how Covid-19 demonstrates why we must ban wildlife markets and improve farming standards if we are to prevent the next
Save Korean Dogs by Madeline Warren
Madeline Warren has travelled to South Korea since 2015 to work with the charity Save Korean Dogs. She lives in Scotland and gained an Honours degree in Zoology. In many countries around the world dogs are eaten as food by humans. Media campaigns raising awareness about the dog meat trade
CEFAW Briefing on the Agriculture Bill
A Christian Case for Farmed Animal Welfare About this briefing Christian Ethics of Farmed Animal Welfare (CEFAW) is a three-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in partnership with major UK churches and other organizations including Compassion in World Farming. The 2019–21 Agriculture Bill is a
Demand an End to the Global Wildlife Trade – Sign the Petition
A coalition of animal welfare organisations, co-ordinated by World Animal Protection (WAP), have launched a Campaign to End the Wildlife Trade. Please Sign the Petition Every day, thousands of animals are forced into the multi-billion pound global trade in wildlife – killed for food, harvested for traditional medicine, traded as ‘exotic’ pets
Which is More Dangerous: Wildlife Markets or Animal Research ? by Dr Andre Menache
The race is now on to develop a vaccine to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Developing a new vaccine is not without risk and so it is imperative that researchers use robust scientific methods in order to avoid some of the mistakes of the past. An important step in the
Prayer Link – Wednesday at 9.30 PM
FOR SPEECHLESS THINGS We meet O God, within this place To supplicate Thee of Thy grace To hear our prayers for speechless things That move on fins and legs and wings Our co-inhabitants on earth Who owe, as we, to Thee their birth. We prayer for just and humane laws
On Laboratory Animal Day Let’s Switch to 21st Century Technologies
According to Dr Andre Menache, Covid-19 offers us a golden opportunity to get rid of the ‘animal model’, a concept that belongs to the 20th century, and to focus our efforts on the species in question, namely humans. He says that rather than experimenting with ferrets, monkeys or mice, it
Climate Change and the Threat to Creation by Fr Augusto Zampini Davies
Father Augusto Zampini Davies, theological adviser to CAFOD, reflects upon how Catholics might respond to climate change and the threat to creation. For Catholics, having a compassionate and loving attitude towards those in need is crucial for our truly human development and faith (cf. Lk 10:26-27; Dt 6:5; Lev 19:18).
