International Fund for Animal Welfare: is it easy or difficult to be human? Center for the Protection of Animal Rights Vita Legislative Protection of Animals

From time immemorial, fur products have been loved in Russia, and this is fully justified, our climate is such that warm fur hats and coats will not only be an ornament, but will also keep our warmth in winter cold. It has always been like this, and no one reasonable person did not cause a desire to protect the rights of animals, to fight with the owners and buyers of squirrel and sable coats.

Hunters obtained valuable fur with great difficulty and risk to their lives, then the fur was carefully dressed and sent to fur ateliers, where fur coats were sewn from it. All the way from the animal in the forest to the fur coat in the store, a lot of hard work had to be invested, and this work was always appreciated, fur coats were a very expensive pleasure.

Over time, people began to breed fur animals on farms, breed new varieties of animals and improve the quality of their fur. For example, it has amazing fur and is grown exclusively in nurseries. Everything seems to be correct - people from year to year invest their work, and receive valuable fur on which they can earn. But! There are figures who saw a violation of animal rights in fur products. These animal rights organizations are making life really hard for fur producers and the average fur loving woman.

Let's try to figure out who is right - fur producers and consumers, or animal rights organizations, green and other animal rights advocates?

Animal advocates argue that it is necessary to protect the planet, preserve rare species of animals for posterity, preserve forests and nature from pollution, so that animals have natural environment a habitat. Respect for nature, kindness towards all living beings, wonderful qualities, we should agree with them on this. Only animal rights activists forget that today the hunting of wild animals is carried out in scanty volumes, for example, by local residents of Siberia. Did you highlight what the sable fishery represents in wild nature? The hunter leaves his family, goes to the forest for 3-4 months, where he travels from hut to hut and checks his traps. All these 3-4 months the hunter alone is fighting for survival in the snowy taiga. At the end of the season, the hunter returns home, processes the skins and delivers them for fur acceptance. Do you think the hunter immediately becomes rich? No and no again! The first and most important thing is that the hunter does not get so much sable during the season - 100-150 skins, and the second - in Siberian purchases they are quite inexpensive (30-60 dollars) and the hunter has enough money for the meager maintenance of the family.

How many people want to live in such Siberian villages forgotten by God? There are few, and those who want to disappear for months in the taiga are even fewer, and therefore they cannot significantly influence the sable population in the wild.

And the rest, or rather the main skins that we purchase in the form of fur coats and hats, they are made from the fur of animals grown in nurseries. People raised them as pets and have the right to receive remuneration for their work. Why take this opportunity away from people? Why don't animal rights activists get involved in the protection of chickens, cows, pigs and in general all domestic animals? Is the life of a chicken or a cow less significant than the life of a sable or a mink? Not at all, because fur-bearing animals bred in captivity are not endangered species. Therefore, animal rights organizations have no reason to protect fur animal, and make life difficult for fur producers and consumers.

Why are they protecting Don't animal rights activists know that the mink in nurseries is not in danger of extinction? Everything is very simple - these people do not want to do something serious, work and produce something useful. It is much easier for them to organize protests, write angry publications in the press, throw paint on women in fur coats and get paid for it. Yes, yes, to receive money for destructive activities. And their activity is destructive, because they do not create anything, but only interfere with those who work and create a real product for society.

All these greens, environmentalists and the like, receive grants from various foundations, extort money from organizations that, in their opinion, violate animal rights or pollute environment. However, they do little useful to real animals from the wild. Maybe they don't know that natural fur and the skin obtained from artificially grown animals is much better for the environment than artificial fur, leatherette and various synthetics?

A woman buying, and a fur coat will remain in her wardrobe for many years. Leather products also last much longer, which means they are thrown out less. Do you understand what it gives?

This approach to consumption gives a cleaner environment! Because when buying products made of artificial fur, artificial leather, people do not keep them in their wardrobe for a long time, and very soon fur coats made of artificial fur, leatherette bags are sent to the trash. In nature, this synthetic behaves quite differently from products made from natural materials.

Conclusions:
Animal rights organizations often do not protect anyone's rights but their own. Animal rights activists make life difficult for many people, depriving them of their income and sometimes jobs. And most importantly, the activity to protect the rights of artificially grown mink leads to an increase in the production of products from synthetic materials, which ultimately pollutes nature and makes life difficult for real animals from the wild - rare species that live only in the wild and need to be preserved.

Based on these facts, we can say that animal rights activists do much more harm to the nature of civilization and people than fur sellers did.

The main achievements of animal rights activists are in the collapse of the economy and the destruction of the country's natural resources.

The killing of animals for legitimate purposes, such as the production of livestock products, hunting, the control of pests, is not contrary to the protection of animals and humanity, if methods are used that ensure the least suffering of animals. It is the protection of animals from suffering that is the main goal of animal protection.
But pseudo-animal defenders, that is, those who call themselves animal rights advocates, have spread the diametrically opposite idea that any use of animals by humans, especially their killing, is unacceptable. At the same time, they try not to advertise that, in practice, the observance of this taboo brings suffering to animals. An example of this approach is their attitude to the problem of homeless animals. Homeless animals on the street are doomed to endless torment, but it is impossible to catch and humanely euthanize them to end this torment, from the point of view of animal rights activists. Stray dogs massively exterminate wild animals, but it is also impossible to destroy dogs for the sake of fauna conservation.
It can be seen with the naked eye that this is not the protection of animals, but the dogmatic teaching of “non-killing”. It has no compassion for animals, no common sense. Why, then, has the Russian media been so diligent in passing off adherents of this ideology as animal defenders for 20 years, allowing them to mislead society?
Let's try to answer this question.
A developed, independent state is obliged to provide its citizens with high level life, which is achieved primarily by the availability quality products nutrition. The basis of this is its own animal husbandry and a rich hunting resource.
Animal rights activists' propaganda against the consumption of meat and other animal products is aimed at hitting the animal industry. They claim that on all farms and slaughterhouses animals are supposedly mistreated. For evidence, they use deception and staged video filming.
The same is true for hunting. They suggest that hunting is not the most important industry National economy, the purpose of which is the breeding of animals and the multiplication of the hunting resource, and the barbaric destruction of animals and birds by greedy and cruel people for the sake of entertainment. From this they conclude that it is impossible to kill any animals, including predators and pests, but it is better to free nature from human participation altogether. Their motto is - a man is superfluous on this planet.
In fact, the protection of wild animals includes their protection from predators. If a person completely ceases to regulate predators, they will quickly multiply and exterminate the fauna. Therefore, the implementation of the idea of "non-killing" will lead to the destruction of the hunting resource. The immunity of predators under the slogan of their protection is the cheapest and effective method transformation of the territory into a zoological desert.
At the same time, predators that have bred will inevitably harm animal husbandry, attacking rural animals and ruining farms.
The result of the cessation of the shooting of predators will certainly be the rapid spread of rabies. After all, in Western Europe there is no rabies precisely because the number of predators is minimized there. In developed countries, the protection of the constitutional rights of citizens is more important than the idea of preserving dangerous animals on the territory. Therefore, there is no stray dogs. Wildlife is good for wild countries. Only in them can the protection of lions and tigers be a higher priority than the protection of the population.
By the way, provoking an epidemic of rabies, "animal advocates" are also in favor of abandoning drugs tested on animals, which include all vaccines, including the rabies vaccine.
Additionally, without help Russian authorities, the idea of special reverence for predators is being introduced - the bear is a symbol of the country and the ruling party, the tiger is a sacred national animal, and monuments have even been erected to wolves and stray dogs in the capital.
For the protection of the animal world, it is not an increase in the hunting resource that is needed to feed the population and benefit the state, but the protection of untouchable bears, wolves, tigers, leopards, leopards and stray dogs.
As a result of this approach, the total number of deer now living in the territory of the Russian Federation is less than their number in Great Britain or Germany. And in the US, there are 32 million white-tailed deer alone. There are so many deer that they cause 1.5 million road accidents in the US every year. In Russia total number in general, all ungulates hardly exceed 3.5 million.
The country came to this result thanks to the introduction of pseudo-zooprotective ideas into the minds and Russian laws that do not protect animal world, but its destroyers.
I would like to repeat once again that the real protection of animals, information about which does not get into the media at all, is the protection of animals not from killing by people during production or use, but their protection from suffering.
For example, from the point of view of real animal protection, it is absolutely unacceptable to leave stray dogs to live on the street, and cats in basements, because they suffer and die there in terrible agony. Therefore, in developed countries, where pest saboteurs under the guise of animal rights activists do not mislead anyone, effective measures are taken - homeless animals are shot or seized from the streets and, if the owner is not found, they are euthanized.
In our country, when conducting “humane” sterilization programs, everything was the other way around. Animals were required to be left on the street, where dogs were secretly poisoned by public utilities, cats were torn by dogs, and rats ate kittens in the basements. But it was forbidden to stop this monstrous mockery of animals, using effective, that is, lethal methods for solving the problem of homeless animals.
If such a substitution of concepts is instilled in the whole society for twenty years, most people themselves will not guess what is good and what is bad. Therefore, many of us now do not understand at all that there is a difference between torturing an animal and its humane killing. As a result, there was a real loss of moral guidelines in the country. Having received information that tigers are being fed live animals in the Primorsky safari park, the majority of Russians did not have the thought that this was not normal, and the park management did not think to hide anything.
There are undeveloped peoples who, according to tradition, beat animals before eating to improve the taste of meat, and then they can throw them alive into boiling water. They simply do not understand how the animal suffers in this case. In their culture, an adequate attitude towards animals has not yet been formed. In ours, apparently, it has already been lost.
But double standards have been developed. They staged a persecution of the Danish zoo, where extra animals are killed in a humane way, as it should be in civilized zoos. Ordinary biology lessons were perceived as the natives from a primitive tribe perceive something unknown. Even at the Danish embassy, a line of mourners for the murdered giraffe with flowers lined up. But about the real atrocities in the Russian zoo, where live animals are thrown to predators by human hands, no objections are heard, as if no one realizes what it is.
And to what level can people still slide if they are purposefully prepared for this?

Alexander Kulagin, Svetlana Ilinskaya

By caring for the homeless and other animals, we contribute to the future of the Earth. And it is also in your power to do something so that your great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren can live on a beautiful, diverse and harmonious planet.

The greatest contribution to the protection of animals was made by the organization IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare). The largest international animal welfare fund saves both individual brothers of our smaller, homeless, in trouble, and entire populations, and also takes care to keep their habitat comfortable and suitable for life.

The organization was founded in 1969. Now IFAW is developing its projects in more than 40 countries of the world, and every year it attracts more and more supporters and activists.

Protecting animals is the duty of each of us

As a dominant species, man can and should be responsible for his planetary neighbors. But instead, in the pursuit of personal comfort, prestige and banal commercial gain, we daily brutally exterminate hundreds, thousands of creatures that are to blame only for the fact that their genome is different from ours.

On the this moment more than 40% of all living species on the planet are under the threat of complete extermination. But the disappearance just one kind from the biological chain only in one region can lead to a number of irreversible changes!

And what can happen if these 40% of species cease to exist in nature?

Following them, other animals will begin to die - predators that will not have enough food.
Without constant replenishment with humus, the soil will cease to be fertile, crops necessary for man will not grow on it.
Plants that give us not only food and clothing, but also vital oxygen will begin to die.
Without living organisms that purify water, we will soon not be able to even drink without being poisoned by the products of our own factories.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Usually we do not even think about such things and kill in huge numbers: for food, clothes, decor items ... and some animals die for nothing at all: simply because we have turned their habitat into a dump.

However, we have the power to change everything. The more people who realize the extent of their responsibility and support the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the closer we are to the future in which a person can finally live in harmony with other species.

Isn't it wonderful?

Even small victories are a big step forward

It's been more than 40 years since a few caring people banded together to put an end to Canada's brutal commercial seal cull. And this first small victory proved that you can always win - even if multi-million dollar companies are against you.

During its existence, the IFAW Animal Welfare Foundation has achieved a lot. In particular, thanks to the efforts of activists:

The World Trade Organization has given the EU the go-ahead to ban all seal products;
a lease agreement was signed with the Maasai tribe (Kenya), which allowed to save more than 65 km 2 of habitat for elephants;
five Amur tigers, orphaned and raised by humans, were released into the wild;
In Russia, winter bear hunting was banned, as a result of which hundreds of bear cubs were orphaned every year.

And that's not all!

On the IFAW official website, you can learn about the most relevant campaigns of the foundation and make a donation that may change the future of our planet.

What has the fund for the protection of wild and homeless animals done in Russia?

The money that you donate to such organizations does not go into someone's pocket - any serious fund provides its assistants with information about how much money was spent and on what projects.

Thus, the IFAW Animal Welfare Fund in Russia finances several projects to protect homeless, agricultural and wild animals at once:

Opening mobile veterinary clinic and centers for homeless animals in Moscow.
The program for the rescue and return to the natural habitat of orphaned bear cubs from the Tver region.
Research and protection of beluga whales in the White Sea, polar bears on about. Wrangel.
Gray whale protection program near Sakhalin.
Measures for the conservation of Far Eastern leopards and Amur tigers in nature.

Many campaigns are aimed at changing the legislation: bringing to justice for cruelty to animals, against winter hunting of brown bears, etc.

Support the Foundation for the Protection of Homeless Abandoned Animals - find your best friend at the shelter!

Organizations dedicated to the protection of homeless animals exist in almost every city. And one of the most simple ways help - deciding to get a pet, not to buy an expensive thoroughbred kitten or puppy, but to take someone who is already waiting for you in one of the shelters. You may not change the world with this ... but you will change your whole life, give warmth and happiness. Is this not enough?

In our article we want to talk about the problem of animal protection in the Russian Federation. This question has always been and remains relevant. Very often people harm animals without realizing it. In the meantime, only we ourselves can help them.

Homeless animal problem

The problem of stray dogs and cats swept Russia back in the nineties, when the market for uncontrolled breeding of pets led to their excess and depreciation. As a result, the first packs of no-man's dogs appeared on the streets.

At that time, people began to move from the villages closer to the cities, having lost their jobs in the collapsed collective farms. Naturally, they did not take their families with them, they began to gather in flocks and also migrated closer to settlements. They multiplied, their number grew. I must say that the catching service ceased to exist in those days, no one was involved in regulating the number of stray dogs.

At the beginning of the 2000s, they gradually began to deal with this problem, trying to introduce humane methods of dealing with homeless animals. In Moscow, for example, started in 2002 a program of sterilization of animals. Budget money was allocated for this, but it was of little use. It is difficult to check whether or not, but the funds are gone, but the problem remains.

In 2008 there was already a real influx of semi-wild animals. Therefore, it was decided to equip shelters for stray animals and keep them there for life. However, this did not give any result. The funds were again spent, but the problem was by no means solved.

Animal shelter

On the this stage There are two types of shelters in Russia. These are public and private. As you understand, municipal funding comes from the state budget. But they are the most relevant in the Russian Federation, since they have at least some legal regulation.

The date of commencement of the functioning of such shelters can be considered the period of the appearance of the official document "On the design of shelters for the city of Moscow" (dated December 29, 2006).

How do stray dogs or cats get into such shelters? The mechanism is very simple. There are special organizations that are engaged in catching animals. Then they are sent to live in an animal shelter.

It must be said that all these places for keeping animals are far from ideal today. There is a lack of funding, but they are trying to solve the problem of homeless animals in humane and civilized ways. Great help in this work is provided by volunteers who are not indifferent to this problem.

Non-state shelters

Private shelters are created with the citizens' own money. The activities of such organizations are not regulated by any legislative acts. Very often, animal protectors are faced with the fact that keeping animals in such places cannot be called humane, the conditions do not meet any standards at all, so it is impossible to say that cats and dogs live better there.

However, there are also such shelters where people who really love animals work. They provide proper pet care. Unfortunately, there are very few such organizations, they are always crowded with four-legged ones. Therefore, the reception of new tenants is extremely limited. Such shelters are simply not able to accept everyone from the street. There should be many more such organizations, in addition, their activities should be in the legal field, regulated by legislative acts, and for this it is necessary to adopt a number of laws regarding animals and their protection.

Myths about animal shelters

There are one hundred and fifty animal shelters in Russia, forty of them are located in Moscow. Only in them there are hundreds of thousands of animals. It would be possible for people who decide to get a pet for themselves, use the services of a shelter and take the animal with them. However, many have developed stereotypes regarding the four-legged living in such places. Like, they are all sick and dirty. However, this is not the case, as upon arrival at the shelter they are examined and vaccinated. They just need to pay much more attention than other animals.

It cannot be said that even in good location four-legged friends life is great. There is not enough space in shelters, in addition, the pets there clearly lack human affection and care.

Various foundations deal with the problems of the wrong attitude of animals from the shelter. One of these is the Giving Hope Foundation. Its board of trustees includes well-known personalities: Elena Yakovleva, Konstantin Khabensky, Andrei Makarevich and other stars.

Protection of animals in nurseries

It must be said that in shelters closed entrance. Getting there is not so easy, only with passes. And there are reasons for this. This is how they try to protect themselves from people with animalistic inclinations who are capable of killing animals. That is why the Internet never indicates the direct addresses of shelters, but only an approximate location. Anyone who wants to get into the shelter and adopt an animal should first of all contact the volunteers.

Legislative protection of animals

At the same time, people began to use not only domestic, but also wild animals for commercial purposes. There are many examples of how, for example, in some roadside cafe or restaurant, wild animals (bears, monkeys, exotic lizards) are kept in terrible conditions to attract visitors. Not only can animals just run away from there and harm people, they simply should not live in such conditions. And such facts of the commercial use of animals must be fought. The problem of saving animals is long overdue.

This means that a full-fledged law is needed that would regulate this process, preventing many countries from adopting such regulations long ago (Austria, England).

However, the problem of animals has deeper roots. On the one hand, there is an uncontrolled reproduction of homeless individuals, which is extremely dangerous for society. On the other hand, people themselves sometimes also cause significant harm to them. Therefore, saving animals is a deep issue that requires comprehensive thought and decision.

Animal Rescue Service

It must be said that in Everyday life not only no one's animals get into trouble, but even the most beloved pets. Stray dogs can only rely on themselves, while domestic dogs have a chance to get help from their owners.

AT recent times in large cities, special services began to appear that deal with helping household and wild animals. Saving animals is their top priority.

As a rule, such rescue services work around the clock. People can just call them and get necessary information about what you need to do to help your four-legged friends.

Unfortunately, there are no similar ones in Russia. Therefore, the rescue of animals from death occurs only on a commercial basis. Not a single person will travel free of charge to provide assistance or treatment. I must say that the mandatory reception of absolutely all animals is not carried out even in state shelters.

Moreover, in most of the Russian Federation there are no relevant environmental and gamekeeper services that could go to the field in case of difficult situations. Rescue of wild animals could become a completely solvable issue in the presence of such organizations.

Rescuers and climbers

Since there is no need to wait for help from you, you can only rely on paid services private organizations for which saving animals has become a job.

Rescuers and climbers work in Moscow and large metropolitan areas to provide animal rescue services. They can help you remove a cat from a height, pull a blocked pet out of an inaccessible place.

However, even they cannot always cope with difficult situation because they don't have specific hardware. In such cases, you can try to contact the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Of course, this service does not deal with animals, they do not have such specialists, but they can help necessary tools or equipment. For example, lift a heavy plate. The Ministry of Emergency Situations is reluctant to respond to such requests, because they have enough work of their own, but in exceptional cases you can try contacting them.

Ifaw Foundation (International Fund For Animal Welfare)

Animal rescue is a pressing issue modern society. All over the world, they face many different dangers: loss of their usual habitat, conflict situations between humans and animals, natural and man-made disasters, abuse and illegal trade in tetrapods.

All these issues are dealt with by experts from the Ifaw International Foundation. They always try to help animals that are in trouble, and direct their efforts to solving problems that led to an unfavorable situation.

The Animal Rescue Fund comes to the aid of bears, penguins, elephants, rhinoceroses and many other wild animals that without outside participation would be doomed to certain death. The fund's specialists not only save the animals, but also try to carry out the necessary rehabilitation before releasing them into the wild.

Foundation activities in Russia

The purpose of the foundation is to save animals and return them to the wild. The organization is international. In Russia, it also operates, in particular, in the Tver region there is a center for the rehabilitation of orphaned bear cubs, where they feed and raise cubs left without mothers. They try to return the matured individuals to their natural habitat in the most comfortable way. True, this is not always possible. Complicated injuries and long period captivity interfere with the rapid process of adaptation. In such cases, animals are assigned to a shelter where they are kept until the end of their lives.

In addition to helping animals, the fund's employees are actively trying to eliminate those causes that negatively affect the lives of animals, as much as possible, of course. The goal of the organization is to preserve wildlife in all its beauty and diversity at all costs.

From the history of the fund

Ifaw started working in Russia in 1994. The first activity was related to scientific research marine mammals and the search for alternatives to seal hunting in the White Sea. Since then, the programs have expanded significantly, and now the fund's employees have directed their efforts to protect whales, polar and brown bears, wild animals that have become the subject of commercial trade and use, as well as tigers that are on the verge of extinction in Russia in the Far East.

Real life examples of animal rescue

You don't have to go far to give examples of animal rescue. There are a lot of them, because in the course of their work, Ifaw employees help not only representatives of wildlife, but also pets.

In January 2016, the Bear Cubs Rehabilitation Center, which we talked about earlier, received five cubs. Their story is similar to many others. They were left without mothers due to the fact that they were scared away from the dens by the sounds of logging. Rescuers heard the whimpering of abandoned cubs and saved them from certain death. Now the kids feel good and are gradually preparing them for life in the wild. One of them was named Mike and the other Cleopatra. They are treated and bottle fed.

These are not the only cubs in this nursery. Every year, a sufficient number of babies come here in a weakened and half-dead state, even from remote regions. All of them are cared for as much as possible.

Not so long ago, a young tigress was picked up by the fund's employees. She has been in the kennel for more than two months. And a lot of people took part in her rescue, even locals. But now the animal feels great and is undergoing rehabilitation.

ifaw and pets

The Foundation is actively involved in the protection of pets, as they often and heavily suffer from their own owners. After all, the life of our smaller brothers directly depends only on us. Sometimes, and not intentionally, we can harm them. Therefore, saving pets is one of the tasks of the organization.

In this area, the specialists of the organization carry out rather educational work to provide people with necessary information about how to care for animals, what to feed, what diseases pets carry, how to avoid aggression and attacks from wards, and much more.

Ifaw promotes responsible and humane treatment of animals and at the same time a safe mutual existence of people and animals.

Instead of an afterword

Animal protection and rescue is an urgent problem of modern society, which should be solved at the legislative level with the full support of not only volunteers and individual organizations, but also the general public. The most important task is to achieve the most comfortable existence of people with domestic and wild animals, excluding damage from both sides.

OneKind

According to the organization's research, 91% of those surveyed believe that animals are capable of feeling, in October 2009, Animal Advocates launched the OneKind campaign. Seeing how the results of research diverge from the increasing exploitation of animals, the organization seeks to return to the roots and restore the connection of man with animals and nature.

The campaign was launched in parallel with the organization's rebranding, which saw a significant shift away from the negative, tragic imagery and style traditionally associated with animal welfare companies. A modern new logo was developed, the website, and subsequent publications of the organization were made in the spirit of the new brand - bright colors, inspiring illustrations and a general positive attitude. The scope of philanthropy has also been expanded with online engagement with supporters, the launch of a weekly blog, supplemented by diaries on Twitter and Facebook.

The response to the company was positive, OneKind received support from many famous people, including British celebrities Alisha Dixon, Paul O "Grady, Johnny Vegas, Benjamin Zephaniah and Brian May and others. Considering OneKind as an "innovation", Animal Defenders in the first six months of the campaign focused on its popularization in society, attracting famous names for support.

The essence of the campaign was also articulated in the OneKind Manifesto, released in March 2010 ahead of the UK general election. The title page of the manifest describes OneKind as follows:

Our OneKind Campaign views animals as intelligent living beings and builds on the connection between humans, animals and the natural world in a positive, inspiring and practical way.

Our OneKind vision- OneKind's creation of a world where all animals are valued, respected, cared for and compassionate.

Rejecting the themes of previous manifestos and those used by similar organizations, the Defenders proclaim that the main theme of the OneKind manifesto is " back to roots". The introductory part says: Great Britain is known as the land of animal lovers.", as well as: " a compassionate nation can lead by example and help change the condition of animals around the world". In addition to specific recommendations for improving the lives of animals already exploited (e.g. those used in the food industry or laboratories), the manifesto draws attention to research public opinion about the ability of animals to feel, and calls on the government to make animal welfare a part of the school curriculum, as well as to encourage animal-friendly consumerism.

This may indicate that the organization sees OneKind as more than just a campaign, perhaps as an idea or movement in its own right. It is expected that action plans and actions, as well as campaigners, will be announced in the summer of 2010.

Moderate stance

Animal welfare advocates take a pragmatic approach to animal welfare issues, preferring to work with legislators and those interested in animal experimentation. They contrast charity with extreme forms of protest and publicly distance themselves from acts of violence by animal rights extremists. The organization follows its general line: “ HumanKind. AnimalKind. OneKind”, believing that unity, not opposition, leads to progress.

Animal rights activists are one of several groups fighting against vivisection and contributed to the creation of the 1986 Law governing the treatment of experimental animals. Former executive Le Ward described him as " one of the best laws” in comparison with the legislation of other countries, adding that “ most scientists in the UK, as not protected by the 1986 law, will find themselves in court for cruelty to animals". Ward also served on the Committee on Animal Experimentation, the functions of which were established by the 1986 law.

The organization's moderate stance has been criticized within the animal rights community. So the National Society Against Vivisection called the Boyd Group " PR exercises". Ward explained his position in an interview with Nature: " I'd like to see a complete end to animal testing, but I'm not stupid enough to think it will happen overnight.».

From that point, Ward left the Boyd Group, deeming the situation a "stalemate", but continued to insist on its usefulness in 2006, saying that it was " one of the few places where moderate activists and moderate researchers can sit down and discuss anything».

Jane Goodall

Primatologist Jane Goodall was President of the Animal Advocates from 1998 to 2008. In May 2008, she described the new primate section at Edinburgh Zoo as a "wonderful facility" where monkeys " probably better [than] in the wild, such as in Budongo, where one in six gets caught in a wire trap, or countries like the Congo, where chimpanzees, monkeys, and gorillas are shot for food". Which conflicts with the Animal Advocates' position on captive animals, who said that Goodall " has the right to his own opinion, but our position will not change. We oppose the keeping of animals in captivity for entertainment". In June 2008, Goodall confirmed that she was stepping down as president of the organization, citing her busy schedule and explaining that she " just don't have time for it».

Reports

Animal advocates publish materials on a wide range of animal-related issues, including:

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