Investigations worldwide
08.-09.05.2013 | Lithuania, Vilnius
Animals‘ Angels/8hours and Gudrun Koller, director of the Lithuanian animal welfare organization OPAN, have a meeting with Lithuania’s vice Minister of Agriculture and chief veterinarian regarding deficiencies of the existing EU...[more]
06.-07.05.2013 | Portugal, Rates
Animals‘ Angels inspects transports leaving Rates’ cattle market with direction to several slaughterhouses in Portugal and Spain. Our teams detect law violations in all transports checked, for instance: severe overcrowding,...[more]
03.05.2013 | Spain, region of Girona
Animals‘ Angels inspects a couple of dairy farms in the Spanish region of Girona. Most farms in this region are modern large-scale factories. However, conditions for the animals are not the best. In most cases the cows have room...[more]
02.05.2013 | France, Maurs
Together with the French Organization PMAF Animals‘ Angels inspects Maurs’ horse market which takes place four times a year. Around 1000 horses, donkeys, mules and ponies spend up to 24 hours without access to water. Most animals...[more]
24.04.2013 | Italy, Rome
Animals‘ Angels and LAV (Italian animal welfare organization) attend to a meeting with the representative of Italy’s Ministry of Health responsible for animal transport. A number of specific activities are discussed which are...[more]
23.04.2013 | Poland, near Warsaw
Animals‘ Angels follows a truck transporting ‚slaughter‘ cows on the highway westwards to Warsaw. Inside the animals are tied together at their horns. This causes pain and suffering and is a violation of EU regulations. The...[more]
22.04.2013 | Poland, Bodzentyn
Animals‘ Angels inspects the weekly horse market in Bodzentyn, Poland. Together with our partner ‘Viva! Poland’ we document grievances on horse and cattle markets throughout Poland. On all sites problems are very much alike, in...[more]