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In Colorado, backers of a proposed 2022 ballot initiative are collecting signatures to stop “sexual acts on animals” and revamp animal cruelty statutes. The proposed initiative was given the go-ahead in March, 2021 to collect signatures of registered voters, to qualify the initiative to appear on the ballot.
The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 (c. 22) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was introduced to Parliament by the Government of the United Kingdom at the 2021 State Opening of Parliament. [1] The act recognises animal sentience in law for the first time.
Often, animals are moved from the southern to northern U.S. states. Animals may be transported using aircraft or vehicles, sometimes being relayed between transporters multiple times along the way. As of March 2022, ASPCA had a fleet of 18 vans used for transport. The organization relocated approximately 200,000 animals between 2017 and 2022. [54]
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is an American non-profit charitable organization founded by Christine Stevens in 1951 with the goal of reducing suffering inflicted on animals by humans. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is one of the oldest animal welfare organizations in the US.
The UK passed legislation formally recognizing animals as sentient beings. [96] 2021 In a US court, animals were recognized as "interested persons" for the first time. [97] 2021 Octopuses, crabs and lobsters were recognized under UK law as sentient beings. [98] 2021 In December 2021, Spain approved a law recognizing animals as sentient beings ...
The Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill was a proposed act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom relating to animal welfare and the export of certain animals. The Bill was sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The Bill would have specifically prohibited the export of animals for slaughter or fattening for future ...
The Recovering America's Wildlife Act (RAWA) is a bill in the United States Congress intended to provide funding for the conservation of wildlife in the United States.. In the 117th United States Congress, the House of Representatives passed it by 231–190, but although it passed the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on a bipartisan basis, it never passed the full Senate and ...
In 2021, WAI received a grant of $3.5 million from Open Philanthropy to support research on wild animal welfare. [10] In the same year, WAI launched a research fund for high-impact wild animal welfare research, with the intent to "distribute over $3 million to academic research projects designed to understand and improve the lives of wild ...