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This list of animal rights groups consists of groups in the animal rights movement.Such animal rights groups work towards their ideals, which include the viewpoint that animals should have equivalent rights to humans, such as not being "used" in research, food, clothing and entertainment industries, and seek to end the status of animals as property. [1]
The Great Ape Project (GAP), founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, anthropologists, ethicists, and others who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights on non-human great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.
Doctors Against Animal Experiments (DAAE; Ärzte gegen Tierversuche) is an animal rights organization based in Cologne, which campaigns for the complete abolition of animal testing under the motto "Medical progress is important - animal testing is the wrong way".
The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) is an international non-profit animal protection group, based in London, working to end animal testing, and focused on the replacement of animals in research with advanced, scientific techniques.
Camp Beagle is an ongoing protest camp set up in June 2021 by animal rights activists outside of MBR Acres, a breeding facility for beagles used in laboratory research, in Wyton, Cambridgeshire. [1] As of May 2024, It is the longest-lasting protest camp of its kind, where protesters have maintained a permanent presence, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] as they want ...
Opposes animal cruelty, specifically advocating against animal testing, cock- and dog-fighting and bear baiting. [1] Human Environment Animal Protection Party (German: Partei Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz) 1993– [2] Germany EU: In short: Tierschutzpartei. Represented in the European Parliament with 1 seat 2019–2020. Party for the Animals
Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first gained attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case. [3] The organization opposes factory farming, fur farming, animal testing, and other activities it considers to be exploitation of animals. [a]
Animal rights activist, European director of the Animals and Society Institute, former national director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (1987–1992), campaigns officer for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (1981–1985), and national organizer for Compassion in World Farming (1976–1978), for which he remains ...