Silvia Mantilla, Author at World Federation for Animals

Creating Guidelines on Animal Welfare in Agricultural Development

The World Federation for Animals in partnership with the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) and Wageningen University are collaborating to develop guidelines on improving animal...

Civil society tells UN Member States to repeal subsidies for practices with detrimental animal welfare impacts

Blog, HLPF, News, UN, UN Sustainable Development Agenda

“Governments must reverse the global expansion of industrialised animal farming and agriculture”, recommend NGOs from around the world as an avenue to advance the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In their 2022 position paper for the High-level...

One last push – a new Global Biodiversity Framework is at stake this month in Nairobi

Blog, Convention on Biological Diversity

World representatives must adopt new goals and targets to put biodiversity on a path to recovery. Later this year, the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15)[1] of the Convention of Biological Diversity offers the opportunity to make this happen. Prior to COP15, the...

Updated animal health & welfare standards recommended by WOAH

Blog

The World Assembly of Delegates of the World Organisation for Animal Health (formerly OIE and now WOAH) concluded its 89th Annual General Session last week. WFA, members and partners, under the International Coalition for Animal Welfare (ICFAW), participated in the...

Supporting Sentience

Animal Sentience, Blog

Chris Sherwood, Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) Alongside many other animal protection organisations, all of us at RSPCA breathed a sigh of relief when the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 finally passed...

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