Animal Defenders International (ADI) and the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) have strongly condemned an announcement that the European Commission plans to help fund a massive new animal breeding facility in Portugal. |  |
Animal Defenders International (ADI) has expressed bitter disappointment over Wycombe District Council’s marginal vote to allow performing animal circuses to be allowed on council land. | |
Animal Defenders International (ADI) is strongly urging Wycombe Borough Council to reject circus industry calls for performing animals in circuses to be allowed on council land. | |
Leading animal protection groups Animal Defenders International (ADI) and the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) have submitted a formal complaint to the European Commission about the organisation of a public hearing on the use of non- human primates in biomedical research. | |
Animal Defenders International (ADI) has welcomed the decision by Wandsworth Borough Council to put forward a proposal banning circuses using performing wild animals. | |
The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) and Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research (LDF) today welcomed the European Commission announcement of a new website for tracking development of advanced scientific techniques to replace the use of animals in research. | |
The long awaited revision of Directive 86/609 includes a ban on the use of apes and wild caught monkeys in laboratories but falls short on phase out of primate experiments. | |
Italian Member of European Parliament Umberto Guidoni, former NASA and ESA astronaut, asks the Russian Federal Space Agency to stop the use of primates in their Mars exploration programme. | |
The 2007 statistics on animal testing published today by the Home Office show a rise of 6% on 2006 the number of procedures on animals in laboratories. | |
Germany – A meeting held today in Bad Homburg, and attended by scientific and industry representatives from five EU countries, and representatives of the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS), will report the findings of a Europe-wide trial into micro-dosing. | |
ADI applauds decision to uphold circus animal prohibitions, as the Fercos Brothers are told with human only performers. | |
Animal group want answers from Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden over their support for animal ‘props’ in magic show. | |
MP raises point of order over government response regarding simian ‘fantasy’ species. | |
ADI to launch new scientific report in Congress at unveiling of Bill to ban the use of animals in circuses | |
Celebrities join the National Anti-Vivisection Society in asking the British public to throw out animal tested household products and request a future Government ban. | |
Animal Defenders International propose new reviews to Directive that could save the lives of millions of animals | |
The House of Lords today dismissed an appeal brought by Animal Defenders International challenging the restrictions on political advertising after an advertisement about the use of primates was banned from being broadcast on television or radio. | |
An online video recently broadcast on Youtube, shows a smiling US Marine in combat gear throwing a puppy over a cliff in Iraq to its certain death. The shocking video has enraged thousands of viewers who protested before it was removed from the website.
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At a meeting at the European Parliament yesterday, Commissioner Dimas gave his strongest indication yet that the use of apes and most wild caught monkeys in experiments would be banned under the forthcoming revision of EC Directive 86/609.
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Brussels, 13th February 2008 – Alternatives to using animals for medical research in laboratories across the EU should be further developed and implemented as a priority, Neil Parish MEP, Conservative President of the European Parliament’s animal welfare intergroup, said today.
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