Key Recommendations on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
As the development of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework advances under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), WFA, Born Free, and eight other member NGOs have made key recommendations to make this a truly transformative guide to living in harmony with...
Taking forward the Animal Welfare Nexus resolution
February 2022 was historic. It was a...
Historic UN resolution recognizes animal welfare’s role in sustainability
World Federation for Animals African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources Africa Network for Animal Welfare ____________________________________________________________ Member States at UNEA-5 adopt a pioneering resolution recognising the link between animal...
Call for UNEP to promote dietary shifts to curb environmental destruction and prevent the next pandemic
Together with 154 other NGOs, the World Federation for Animals...
UNEA 5.2 – Strengthening action for nature and animal welfare
At this year’s UN Environment...
One health
We must learn from the pandemic, or we are...
Exciting opportunity to join WFA as a Communications Manager
This role is a genuine unique opportunity to make a real difference for animals at a global scale.
COP26: Meat on the menu, but not on the Agenda
In the words of COP26 President, Alok Sharma, “we still have a mountain to climb”.
The case for an international day to recognise animals
The United Nations designates specific days, weeks, years and decades as occasions to mark particular events or topics in order to promote, through awareness and action, the objectives of the organisation. But one key day is still missing from the UN agenda: World...
Creating a Global Biodiversity Framework plan that works: Where we are and where we’re going
In August 2021, the next step in negotiations for a pivotal UN agreement began. The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) will lay out a ten-year strategy for the preservation of the living world until 2030 under the goal to “live in harmony with Nature in 2050”....