FLOOD EMERGENCY: DUBAI UNDERWATER! HELP US SUPPORT VOLUNTEERS AND STRAY CATS RESCUED
It’s chaos in Dubai and in many other areas of the United Arab Emirates after an intense flooding hit the country on Tuesday, registering the...
DONATION OF FOOD TO STRAY CATS IN BANJA LUKA
OIPA International donated 100 kg of dry and wet food to Rajka, a volunteer who works tirelessly to give shelter and take care of stray cats in...
TWO PUPPIES CONFINED IN A TINY CAGE AND USED TO ENTERTAIN KIDS, SEIZED BY OIPA ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICERS IN ITALY
OIPA Italy animal control officers recently seized two 3-month-old puppies forced to spend their days confined in a tiny cage. Their guardian openly...
MASS KILLING OF DOGS IN AZERBAIJAN, WRITE TO THE UN CLIMATE CHANGE SECRETARIAT
Although the Republic of Azerbaijan joined the European Convention for the Protection of Pets in 2007, according to which the government was...
DOG STERILIZATION CAMPAIGN IN BRANISTEA, ROMANIA
Following the successful cooperation with Sava’s Safe Haven – OIPA’s member association in Romania – in aid of war-affected animals in Ukraine and...
FOOD NEEDED FOR DOGS AT SHELTER GOROD COBAK IN MYKOLAIV
Do you remember ‘Gorod Cobak’ shelter in Mykolaiv, Ukraine? Volunteers wrote us informing that a missile attack hit the city last weekend destroying...
FIRST DONATION FOR HOMELESS ANIMALS IN KURDISTAN
Thanks to our supporters who participated to the fundraising campaign in aid of stray animals in the region of Kurdistan – Iraq, we sent a first...
FOOD FOR 60 ANIMALS DELIVERED TO A VOLUNTEER IN BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA
A volunteer in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, messaged us asking for help for feeding the 60 animals she looks after all alone. Without...
37 BIRDS SEIZED AT THE PORT OF GENOA BY OIPA, CRAMMED UNDER THE SEAT OF A CAR HEADED TO MOROCCO. HOLDER REPORTED
Seized at the port of Genoa by OIPA ITALY ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICERS(OIPA), 37 birds were found, including 23 zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) and...
VOTE FOR ANIMALS 2024
The Vote for Animals campaign, launched by Eurogroup for Animals and supported by over 50 international organizations - OIPA included - aims to...
A DOG CHAINED TO A WALL SEIZED BY OIPA ITALY ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICERS IN NAPLES PROVINCE. CARETAKER REPORTED FOR ANIMAL CRUELTY
Left without water and food, locked in a room, chained to a wall. Thor, a 12-year-old senior dog, was found in a dreadful state. Sentenced to die...
18 PUPPIES AND TWO MOTHERS NEED HELP FOR VACCINATIONS
Volunteers of Bir Pati de Sen Tut in Turkey, OIPA’s member league association, recently had to deal with an emergency rescue activity. In one of...
STRAY FEEDING ACTIVITY IN DAMASCUS AND ALEPPO
Political, bureaucratic and logistical issues make the entrance and delivery of humanitarian aid often a mission impossible in a country plagued by...
HORRIFIC ANIMAL CRUELTY CASE IN ITALY. STARVING DOGS, RABBITS, GOATS SEIZED BY OIPA ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICERS
Five dogs with bones protruding through the skin, including four puppies and an adult female, eleven rabbits locked up in tiny enclosures and four...
INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL WELFARE AND VETERINARY VOLUNTEER PROGRAM IN CAMEROON
OIPA Cameroon is offering an exclusive volunteer veterinary program (for up to 3-5 people) with their mobile vet clinic, the first and only mobile...
OIPA IN ODISHA SUBMITS A COMPLAIN FOR ILLEGAL DOG RELOCATION BY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION BHUBANESWAR
After receiving information from animal welfare activists and members of local associations of alleged illegal relocation of stray dogs in...
YOUNG VOLUNTEER IN SANGRUR PROMOTES ANIMAL WELFARE
A brief update from our young volunteer and representative in Sangrur, a district in the state of Punjab in northern India. Aisha is lovingly...
BALOO, AN ELDERLY DOG ABANDONED. RESCUED BY OIPA VOLUNTEERS IN ITALY
Baloo is another German Shepherd rescued by our volunteers in Italy. An elderly dog, thought to be around 12 years old, abandoned on his own after...
KEPT OUTDOORS AS GUARD DOG AND TETHERED FOR YEARS, INNO DESERVES ANOTHER CHANCE
Tethered outdoors for six years and used as guard dog, when the factory went bankrupt, none thought about his destiny. Factory’s owners left the dog...
WILL SCOTLAND OUTLAW DOG RACING?
Last week our member league association GREY2K USA host a Parliamentary Exhibition in Edinburgh, in the Garden Lobby of the Holyrood, in support of...
EMERGENCY UKRAINE: A GIFT FOR FIVE FURRY TAILS
We publish a brief photo-report of the aid delivered to some furry friends in Ukraine. Uma, Linxy, Kasya, Kuru, and Sonya received dry and wet food...
RESCUED WITH FRACTURED JAW, SILVESTRO NEEDS TREATMENT AND CARE TO HEAL. HELP HIM
Found the first days of the year with a severe fracture of the upper jaw, Silvestro was allegedly victim of a firecracker or badly kicked by a cruel...
SKIN AND BONES, SEVERELY EMACIATED AND LOCKED UP IN SMALL KENNELS, SIX HUNTING DOGS RESCUED BY OIPA ITALY, THEY NOW NEED CARE AND ATTENTION
Skin and bones, severely emaciated and locked 24 hours a day in small kennels, six dogs held on the property of a hunter were saved by a joint...
FOR LEONE, ARON AND ALL ANIMALS, HELPLESS VICTIMS OF HUMAN CRUELTY. PROTEST IN MILANO, ITALY
A protest was held yesterday in Milano to raise voices against recent episodes of animal cruelty occurred in Italy. OIPA was there to attend...
TOGETHER, WE GAVE STRENGTH TO ANIMALS IN NEED. OIPA ACTIVITIES IN 2023
The number of people who have started caring more about animal welfare and who are willing to lend a hand to the less fortunate has highly...
SOS URGENT APPEAL! HELP US COVER THE COST OF REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS AT GOROD COBAK SHELTER IN MYKOLAIV
Our member association Bez Granitz that takes care with its team of volunteers of the animals at Gorod Cobak shelter in Mykolaiv is urgently asking...
SOUTH KOREA PASSES HISTORIC DOG MEAT TRADE BAN
The slaughter and sale of dogs for their meat is to become illegal in South Korea, after the Parliament unanimously passed a law to ban the dog meat...
WELCOME TO SAWS, A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO THE WELFARE AND PROTECTION OF ANIMALS IN SOMALIA
The Somali Animal Welfare Society (SAWS) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to fostering awareness and advocating for the...
OIPA SUPPORTS STRAY WATCHERS PHILIPPINES IN THEIR COMPASSIONATE INITIATIVE FOR STRAY ANIMAL WELFARE AT CAMPUSES
OIPA has been invited by students to endorse a critical initiative addressing the issue of stray animals at the Polytechnic University of the...
OIPA HELPED STERILIZE AND VACCINATE 131 ANIMALS IN ZAPORIZHZHYA REGION
Following the request of our member league Happy Paw, last December OIPA funded the sterilization and vaccination of 131 animals in the cities of...
A DROP IN THE OCEAN FOR HAVIN AND HER INVISIBLE ANIMALS
Thanks to the first donations in support of neglected animals looked after by Havin, a passionate activist living in a small town of the Middle East...
69 MALNOURISHED AND HUNGRY ANIMALS SEIZED BY OIPA ANIMALS CONTROL OFFICERS IN ITALY. THEY URGENTLY NEED FOOD
Half meter deep in mud, some confined to tiny enclosures in a state of severe malnutrition: these were the conditions in which OIPA Italy animal...
SWISS ANIMAL RIGHT ASSOCIATIONS AND CITIZENS CALL FOR A BAN ON FUR AND FOIE GRAS IMPORTS
Few days ago, a coalition of Swiss animal right associations have officially submitted two important initiatives calling for a national ban on fur...
NEW YEAR GIFT FOR CATS AND DOGS LOOKED AFTER BY OIPA VOLUNTEER IN CORSICA
1.2 ton of pet food has been delivered to our delegation in Corsica. 21 bags of dry food for dogs and 42 bags of dry food for cats. Our...
PALESTINE, DONATION TO AEA BETHLEHEM FOR THEIR ACTIVITIES IN AID OF HOMELESS ANIMALS
The war in the Gaza strip is expected to continue throughout 2024 and could escalate into wider conflict across the territory of West Bank. Unable...
FOUND SICK AND SKINNY, NOW HOPE NEEDS YOUR HELP TO RECOVER
Fear, suffering, hunger and cold. This is what Hope had gone through after being abandoned in a period of life during which she needed more care and...
OIPA PARTNER OF THE TRANSNATIONAL GIVING EUROPE (TGE) NETWORK
The private initiative Transnational Giving Europe (TGE) is a network of prestigious European philanthropic institutions that enable donors, both...
EMERGENCY UKRAINE: FOOD DISTRIBUTED TO DOGS AT GOROD COBAK SHELTER IN MYKOLAIV
Last month we helped our member league association BF Bez Granits feeds their guests at Gorod Cobak shelter, located in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. The 187...
MAKE THE DIFFERENCE CHANGE THE TREND. HELP STRAY CATS
WHAT HAPPENS In many European countries, due to the lack of sterilisation, cats proliferate and unwanted kittens are abandoned in front of...
ASK FOR A LAW TO BAN THE SLAUGHTER OF HORSES. SIGN NOW THE EUROPEAN CITIZENS’ INITIATIVE ‘END THE HORSE SLAUGHTER AGE’
We are used to seeing horses in riding stables, or while they are forced to pull heavy carriages, and it is very rare to see them in groups, as they...
ANIMAL HOARDING IN ITALY. 24 DOGS SEIZED FROM TERRIBLE LIVING CONDITIONS
OIPA Italy’s animal control officers recently seized 24 neglected dogs kept outdoors in crumbling crates, working in close cooperation with the...
CATS TORTURED ONLINE FOR FUN AND PROFITING. STOP THE ABUSE!
According to information and material collected by local and international animal activists, there are countless disturbing evidence (group chats,...
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: SEVEN OUTSIDERS STRAY CATS FINALLY INCLUDED IN OIPA AZERBAIJAN’S AUTUMN STERILIZATION CAMPAIGN
Less than a month ago, we asked for your support to help our local representative OIPA in Baku include in the autumn sterilization campaign six...
EU ANIMAL TRANSPORT PROPOSAL NOT ENOUGH TO IMPROVE ANIMAL WELFARE
The long overdue proposal on animal transport fails to protect the billions of animals transported each year, and fails to acknowledge several EFSA...
AFTER THE DESPERATE REQUEST OF A VOLUNTEER, OIPA DELIVERS A GIFT TO CATS IN DUBAI
After our recent appeal, we have been able to purchase over 100 kg of dry and wet food for the stray cats our friend Fawaz takes care for in Dubai....
BETTER PROTECTION FOR CATS AND DOGS IN THE EU LEGISLATION
On 7 December 2023, the European Commission adopted for the first time a proposal for new rules on the welfare of dogs and cats and their...
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PROPOSES TO DOWNGRADE WOLF PROTECTION
The European Commission (EC) has put forward a proposal to suggest a change in the status of wolves from ‘strictly protected' to ‘protected' under...
A DESPERATE REQUEST FROM DUBAI: OVER 400 HOMELESS CATS NEED FOOD
So many times, OIPA has reported the cruelty endured by stray animals in Dubai and the rest of the Emirates, last the mass dumping of cats in Abu...
EMERGENCY UKRAINE: URGENT SUPPORT IS NEEDED TO HELP HOMELESS ANIMALS IN ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION
Last week, our long-standing partner Happy Paw contacted us with a new request for help. They have asked our support for a joint mission with the...
RABIES FREE JAIPUR, A PROJECT TO PROMOTE ANTI RABIES VACCINATIONS AND DOG BITE PREVENTIVE MEASURES IN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES
OIPA Representative in Rajasthan, Mr. Manish Saxena, who is also National Prani Mitra Awardee Advocate, as well as Member of State Animal Welfare...
