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ADI: International Primate Day highlights plight of thousands of primates used for animal testing as Government considers new rules
International Primate Day highlights plight of thousands of primates used for animal testing as Government considers new rules
ADI: REMINDER! Action Alert: Respond to the Home Office consultation on animal testing
The UK Government is planning a new law on animal experiments - the biggest overhaul for 25 years - as it adopts the new European Directive on animal experiments.
ADI: Rhanee the ex-Chipperfield circus elephant dies
After four years at Wroclaw Zoo in Poland, Rhanee, the elephant that caught the heart of the nation during the cruelty trial of Mary Chipperfield, her husband Roger Cawley and their elephant keeper Michael (Steve) Gills, has passed away.
ADI: Negotiations remain open on animal testing Directive as Member States criticise trialogue agreement
The Swedish Presidency of the European Parliament today (15 December 2009) presented the current state of play of the negotiations between the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament, to find a compromise agreement on the new Directive on animal testing.
EU residents sign on for lab animal protection ADI presents 10,000 signatures to key EU Rapporteurs
The EU Commission, Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers and key Rapporteurs, are today being presented with a letter signed by over 10,000 people urging them to use the revision of the new Directive on animal testing to ensure the best possible protection for lab animals.
ADI: House of Lords backs measures to end wild monkey capture and restrict monkey experiments
Every year thousands of monkeys are torn from the wild and their families to restock breeding colonies in factory farms in Asia and Mauritius that supply European laboratories.
ADI: MEPs buckle under vivisection industry pressure
MEPs vote to support non-animal research but strip away protection from wild caught primates; and remove prior authorisation requirements for over 4million experiments.
ADI: MEPs vote on animal research regulations today
This morning, in the Strasbourg Parliament, the Animal Defenders International (ADI) team have reported on the vote of MEPs, on a new directive on the use of animals for scientific purposes.
ADI: Save the primates on world laboratory animal day - April 24th
This Friday's World Day for Laboratory Animals falls as the European Parliament gears up to a critical vote on the rules for animal experimentation across the EU
ADI: Propaganda about changes to European animal testing laws ignores tragedy for lab animals
Animal Defenders International has hit back at spin from the Agriculture Committee of the European Parliament that animal testing will be minimised and welfare improved - after a crucial vote on the regulations for animal experiments across Europe.
ADI: MEPs vote to allow severe and prolonged suffering of animals and say it's in the interests of animal welfare
Today in the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee MEPs have backed a series of amendments that seriously weaken proposals from the European Commission to regulate animal testing across Europe.
ADI hits back at claims better animal protection will drive scientific research out of the EU
Research by Animal Defenders International shows that industry scare stories that improved animal protection will force scientific research abroad, are unfounded and misleading.
Animal Defenders: Vote in European Parliament could send laboratory animal protection back to the Dark Ages
A crucial vote that poses the biggest threat to laboratory animal welfare in decades takes place next week - and MEPs are being urged to take a stand against moves that would tear the heart out of existing animal protection legislation across Europe.
ADI: Anti-vivisection groups unite to urge MEPs: 'Don't sell the animals short'
Six leading animal protection groups have joined forces to urge key MEPs to vote for measures that would end laboratory secrecy and cruelty, as we approach a crucial vote to proposals to change the European laws on animal testing.
ADI: New weapon in fight against brain disease - without testing on animals
A beneficiary of a Lord Dowding Fund (LDF) grant for research without using animals has designed a living model of brain tissue, that could be used to develop treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer's, Motor Neurone and Parkinson's Disease.
ADI: Political pressure mounts to save the primates
A parliamentary petition has been tabled calling for an end to primate testing.
ADI: March 11th sees historic ban on animal testing for cosmetics in the European Union
The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) welcomes this week, the historic ban on testing of cosmetics products on animals.
ADI: Deadline approaches for crucial vote on protection of animals used in scientific tests
A crucial vote takes place at the meeting of the European Parliament's Research and Industry Committee (ITRE) on Monday, on the Commission's proposals for a new Directive on the use of animals for scientific purposes.
ADI: Peru moves closer to animal circus ban
Animal Defenders International (ADI) is delighted that a ban on the use of animals in circuses is within reach in Peru.
ADI condemns lifting of animal circuses ban in High Wycombe
Animal Defenders International (ADI) is dismayed that a ban on animals in circuses has been lifted after 17 years in the Buckinghamshire district of High Wycombe.
New UK circus elephant show is a disgraceful step backwards - says ADI
Animal Defenders International (ADI) is calling on compassionate members of the public to express their disgust that The Great British Circus plans to open its 2009 tour with Asian and African elephants.
ADI: Shocking footage of owl monkeys being trapped for experiments screened at Congress in Colombia
Animal Defenders International are launching in Colombia the latest phase of an international campaign to save primates from scientific experiments.
ADI: Shocking tests exposed inside Huntingdon life sciences UK lab, as EU considers ending primate experiments
Today a groundbreaking new documentary revealing the all too visible distress that lab primates face on a daily basis is revealed by Animal Defenders International (ADI).
Animal Defenders International launches massive campaign to save the primates
2009 is set to be one of the most important years for laboratory primates for decades, as rules governing animal experiments for the whole of Europe are agreed by the European Parliament.
ADI: Ten years to the day since Mary Chipperfield's historic conviction for animal cruelty, but animals still tour the UK in travelling circuses
Today marks the ten year anniversary since one of the world's most famous circus trainers, Mary Chipperfield, was convicted of animal cruelty after being found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a baby chimpanzee and her husband was convicted of elephant abuse.
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