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INTERNATIONAL MACAQUE WEEK Macaque tails: who are these monkeys?
It’s International Macaque Week! Established by Barbary Macaque Education and Awareness (BMAC) as International Macaque Day, which first...
May 1, 20232 min read
Proposed Export of Toque Macaques from Sri Lanka to China: AfA and Macaque Coalition Statement
Nineteen Core Members of the Asia for Animals Coalition, together with a 22 members of the AfA Macaque Coalition, have released a...
Apr 26, 20232 min read
Online animal cruelty content should be prohibited under new UK online safety laws
The AfA Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition has facilitated a working group of animal protection experts, who have warned that content...
Mar 13, 20233 min read
Wild Welfare’s e-learning program now in Bahasa Indonesia!
*English description is below*. Perkenankan saya untuk secara resmi memperkenalkan program edukasi digital Wild About Welfare yang baru...
Mar 1, 20233 min read
New best practice guidelines slow loris species published!
European Association Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) has recently published the 1st edition of the ‘Best Practice Guidelines Nycticebus (slow...
Feb 22, 20231 min read
AfA NMO WARN announces 2023 conference!
Asia for Animals Network Member Organization (MNO) Wild Animal Rescue Network (WARN) has just announced their 2023 conference is being...
Feb 16, 20231 min read
Recognizing Discomfort and Illness in Bears
There are many challenges in noticing illness or discomfort in animals in human care. Many species have adapted to not outwardly show any...
Feb 16, 20231 min read
Sinergia Animal launched cage-free tracker in Asia and Latin America
Based on the statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Asia is currently the biggest manufacturer of eggs in the world...
Dec 29, 20221 min read
Report it! How to help animals by reporting social media cruelty content
Reporting animal cruelty content on social media is worth it! No matter how frustrating it may seem, we know that public reporting is...
Dec 23, 20223 min read
World Monkey Day
Monkeys are cognitively complex individuals, and they are in need of our help A guest post by Dave Neale, Animal Welfare Director,...
Dec 14, 20224 min read
BREAKING - Wild animal "pets" on social media: a vicious cycle of suffering
Wild animals such as monkeys, tigers and lizards are being “psychologically and physically tortured” for likes and comments on social...
Nov 22, 20224 min read
Bestiality and other animal cruelty content found on Twitter
Bestiality videos found on Twitter, depicting humans sexually abusing animals, have been removed by the platform after pressure from...
Sep 24, 20222 min read
Channels showing animal cruelty removed from YouTube
Two YouTube channels promoting animal cruelty have been removed by YouTube, following the release of the SMACC ‘Teasing as Torture’...
Aug 31, 20222 min read
Victory for the macaques of Mt. Takahashi!
Early this morning, AfA Network Member Organization Japan Anti-Vivisection Association (JAVA) gave us the welcome news that Oita City's...
Aug 26, 20221 min read
In memory of AfA Core Member Gil Michaels
The Asia for Animals Coalition is deeply saddened following the passing of Gil Michaels, founder of Animals Guardians and core member of...
Aug 23, 20221 min read
Great news for Taiwan's macaques!
In May 2022, The Asia for Animals Coalition and the AfA Macaque Coalition appealed to Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, asking that she...
Aug 17, 20221 min read
AfA and the Macaque Coalition ask Oita City's mayor to abandon plan to send macaques to Uruguay
Asia for Animals and the Macaque Coalition, supported by over a hundred concerned organizations from around the world, have asked the...
Aug 16, 20222 min read
Two more macaque species now Endangered
Due to the efforts of researchers associated with the Long-Tailed Macaque Project, long-tailed macaques have now been officially...
Jul 27, 20222 min read
Social media giants avoiding responsibility for animal cruelty content
Social media content depicting animal cruelty and suffering can be readily found across social media platforms. Free of borders, content...
Jul 14, 20223 min read
‘Teasing as torture’ of animals in shocking online videos
The Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC) has today released a new report, the first in a series of theme-specific exposés of the...
Jul 5, 20227 min read
Kabul Zoo update - January 2022
Amidst the abundance of worrying news coming out of Afghanistan, we continue to receive many enquiries from people who are understandably...
May 3, 20221 min read
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