A conversation on policymaking to protect animals
What can we do for animals? On 4 October 2022, the World Federation for Animals (WFA) hosted an online conversation to explore what policymaking can do for animals worldwide. Speakers elaborated on their experience leading successful policy reforms to protect animals...
The animal welfare Nexus resolution – Current state of play
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World Horse Welfare’s 25th annual conference explores the complex question of “When does use become abuse?”
21 December 2022 Written by: Jessica Stark, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, World Horse Welfare With an international lineup of speakers from industry, academia and sport, World Horse Welfare’s 25th annual conference brought more than 500 in-person and...
Will the new Biodiversity deal improve the lives of animals?
20 December 2022 Following over three years of negotiations for a new Global Biodiversity Framework, the world has finally committed a collective path to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Ministers from around the world gathered at the 15th Conference of the...
NGOs worldwide call on world Ministers to protect our health and reject trophy hunting
15 December 2022 Dear Ministers at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, The future of life on Earth depends on you. The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) must be ambitious and transformative in...
What the new Global Biodiversity Framework must do for animals, people, and nature
In its preamble, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) recognises the need to conserve biodiversity for its intrinsic value and contributions to human well-being and sustainable development. We concur. All living organisms, including all animals, play an...
COP 27 continued to ignore the role of animals in climate change
Date: 24 November 2022 Despite animal agriculture...
Last exit Montreal: Final negotiations for an ambitious global biodiversity framework
Date: 20 November 2022 The UN climate negotiations have just wrapped up in Egypt at the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP-27), the 19th COP to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora...
Animal laws legally challenged: the beginning of a breakthrough?
Carolina Maciel, International Trade Law & Policy – WFA Senior Advisor Date: 6 November 2022 A major legal challenge over an animal protection law in the United States Supreme Court hit the headlines worldwide a few weeks ago. The case, brought by the...
Exciting Opportunity to join WFA as Membership Development Manager
Our global coalition of animal protection organisations is seeking a driven and passionate individual to help us build and manage our NGO membership. The role will support the shaping, growth and representativeness of the Federation’s membership, as well as acting as...