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Born to be killed:
Lion hunting in South Africa

Travel to South Africa is booming, not only for football fans and nature lovers. South Africa is also a paradise for hunters - Thousand of hunting tourists from Europe and the USA travel to the region – they bring home dead animals instead of photos as souvenirs. Nearly all wild species are available – even protected species like elephants: it’s just a question of money. An especially perfidious form of trophy hunting is “Canned Hunting” of lions. [mehr]

Stray Animal Care project
returns to Dej, Romania

The city of Dej has been visited by FOUR PAWS Stray Animal Care teams on various occasions in the past: now the project has returned for a ten day spell in April 2010, in which 341 animals received medical treatment and were castrated. The continuous monitoring of the city’s stray population and the exceptionally good cooperation with the city government are the keys to a very positive [mehr]
 

Stray Animal Care
rounds up major project in Bulgaria

Over the course of four weeks, a team of veterinarians and dog catchers from FOUR PAWS’ renowned stray animal project SAC have neutered and vaccinated 399 cats and 32 dogs in the second largest city in Bulgaria. In the past, the Plovdiv council had been severely opposed to modern means of controlling the population of stray animals, but the newly elected administration has [mehr]
 
New EU rules on animal experiments
“A missed opportunity”

FOUR PAWS has today cautiously welcomed the news that EU member states have adopted a new draft Directive that will govern animal research and testing. Over twelve million animals such as monkeys, dogs, cats, rabbits and mice are used each year in EU laboratories, and the new law will replace the twenty year old EU Directive 86/609 that regulates their use. [mehr]

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