OIPA (International Organization for Animal Protection)

In the last weeks, a press release from organization LIMAV (Lega Internazionale Medici per l’Abolizione della Vivisezione) Italia, the International Medical League for the Abolition of Vivisection – Italy Chapter, […]

Meat-eating is still a common grotesque, cruel and unacceptable human habit.

In livestock farming, the butchering of animals is just the culmination of a process where living beings are deprived of most […]

Mass executions of dogs are committed daily across Azerbaijan. International Organization for Animal Protection (OIPA) sent a letter to the relevant authorities of Azerbaijan demanding to put an end to the brutal […]

Let’s begin by saying that housecats are not native to Australia, and they did not ask to come to the continent. It is thought they first entered the country at some point between the 17th and the 18th century, i […]

Through the media, we have recently had the pleasure to get to know Greta Thunberg, the Swedish girl who in August 2018 began standing alone every Friday in front of the Swedish parliament holding a written sign […]

There is a growing prejudice against nutrias in Italy, who are now viewed as public enemies by many. This semiaquatic rodent species, native to South America, was brought to Italy in the last century by fur […]

International Organization for Animal Protection (OIPA) India has sent a complaint to India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change and the Ministry of Home Affairs. The complaint was lodged against the […]

Most people do not realize that a majority of pet food is composed primarily from food industry waste. Eyes, bones, feathers and birds beaks, blood, intestines, tendons, mammary glands, gullets and sick, rotten or […]

Egyptian authorities regularly receive complaints from local people claiming that stray dogs are aggressive and dangerous. Unfortunately, in response to these complaints, the Veterinary Service Department in Egypt […]

85% of fur products created by the fur industry come from animals raised in captivity on fur factory farms. These farms can hold thousands of animals, and the practices used to farm them are remarkably uniform […]

Among all the cruel practices that involve animals suffering for people’s “needs” or, rather, non-essential desires, you may not know about one that involves sheep undergoing a removal of parts of their skin in or […]

Canine rabies is endemic in most African countries and the risk of human rabies is estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be high in Cameroon. In a bid to control the disease, many approaches have […]

Bulls of fire is an extremely cruel Spanish bloodsport. In it, torches are tied to bulls’ horns and then set on fire, all for the entertainment of the crowd. This atrocious physical and mental torture, c […]

With a non-binding resolution adopted by 620 votes in favor, 14 against, and 18 abstentions, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) called on the European Union (EU) to launch a diplomatic campaign for a […]

World Rabies Day was observed on September 28th in order to raise awareness about rabies prevention. You have probably heard of this disease before, but do you really know what rabies is, or how it can be […]

The 2018 World Cup in Russia has recently ended. As part of preparations for hosting the World Cup, massive numbers of stray dogs were rumored killed in the 11 Russian host cities, and this violence was met with […]

It’s increasingly common to see pictures and videos of animal abuse circulating on the web. Thanks to a new project from International Organization for Animal Protection (OIPA) called “Stop Viral Animal C […]

Lemurs are widely known animals, in part because of the animated film Madagascar, which helped lemurs conquer many people’s hearts and boosted tourism in Madagascar. The island owes a large part of its p […]

A donkey sensed a hungry wolf
was slithering about,
so he began to limp and moan
until the wolf cried out:
What makes you limp, my donkey friend?
Why such a mournful bray?

Oh, wolf, this thorn stuck in my […]