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21 May 2018
Not a single wildlife tourism entertainment venue in Bali, Lombok and Gili Trawangan with captive elephants, tigers, dolphins or civet cats meets even the basic needs of wild animals
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07 August 2018
We successfully lobbied the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for fishing nets to be tagged to protect marine animals from Ghost Gear – deadly lost fishing lines and nets.
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03 August 2018
We've rushed to rescue 16,000 dogs, cows, horses, cats and more, who’ve been left weak and injured by the disaster in the Limón region
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31 July 2018
July was a busy month for our Sea Change campaign with our campaigners visiting three events to help protect marine animals from being caught in Ghost Gear - deadly lost fishing lines and nets.
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27 July 2018
This International Tiger Day 2018 (July 29), we’re urging Thai authorities to end captive tiger breeding for wildlife tourist attractions and the traditional medicine industry
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27 July 2018
World Animal Protection attended the Ocean Plastic Solutions Day on 12 July, to talk about the trailblazing Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI) we established in 2015 to fight the scourge of deadly lost and abandoned plastic fishing gear.
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24 July 2018
You helped persuade Morrisons to act on Ghost Gear (deadly lost fishing lines and nets) and now their charity, the Morrisons Foundation, is giving £20,000 to clear Ghost Gear from the sea and beaches in Cornwall and Devon.
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12 July 2018
After a series of dramatic ups and downs, Nepal’s last known ‘dancing bear’ arrived today (July 11) at a specialist sloth bear sanctuary in India. He was wrongfully placed in a substandard zoo earlier in 2018.
03 July 2018
We’ve made some real progress with our Change for Chicken campaign. Following our second meeting with KFC UK & Ireland, we have agreed to work together to improve the welfare of chickens in the company’s Western European supply chain and across the poultry industry.
15 June 2018
We’re proud to be working with Elephant Haven in the South of France, Europe’s first ever sanctuary for retired circus elephants
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08 June 2018
On World Oceans Day (8th June), UK supermarkets Waitrose and Marks & Spencer have pledged to fight Ghost Gear – nets, lines and ropes that have been lost or discarded. Ghost Gear causes horrific injuries and deaths to hundreds of thousands of beautiful marine animals each year.
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