THE LIFE OF RESCUED AND ADOPTED PETS IN INDIA. A SERIES OF STORIES DOCUMENTED BY OUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE. SOON A NEW RELEASE “CHOSEN”
We all known how a large number of pets and strays were affected worldwide due to covid-19 last one and a half year. Specially strays that couldn’t...
OIPA SUPPORTS THE EUROPEAN CITIZENS’ INITIATIVE “STOP FINNING – STOP THE TRADE” TO END THE LUCRATIVE BUSINESS OF SHARK FINS FROM EUROPE! GIVE YOUR ADHESION!
Did you know that hundreds of sharks are killed every single minute just for the “Shark Fin Soup” and the EU is a major player in this bloody,...
OIPA PAKISTAN – SOUTH PUNJAB PROPOSES A PROJECT FOR THE CONSERVATION OF INDUS RIVER DOLPHINS
Our delegation in South Punjab is particularly sensitive to the topic of endangered species in the country, so much that they have prepared a...
THREE HUNDRED STRAY CATS IN DUBAI FED THANKS TO THE PROJECT “SAVE A STRAY”
When we say that even a small help can save a life, nothing can be more true! Thanks to your donations to the project “Save a Stray”, we were able...
THE GLOBAL GREYHOUND COALITION, LED BY OIPA INTERNATIONAL, SENT A LETTER TO THE U.S. CONGRESS IN SUPPORT OF THE GREYHOUND PROTECTION ACT (H.R. 3335)
Over thirty animal welfare and protection organizations from 14 countries across the world have endorsed the U.S. Greyhound Protection Act...
ARE YOU A TURKISH ANIMAL LOVER AND YOU WANT TO DEDICATE PRECIOUS TIME TO HELP ANIMALS AND INCREASE THEIR PROTECTION IN YOUR COUNTRY?
This is your occasion! OIPA Turkey is looking for University Campus Representatives all over the country. Requirements: Time to dedicate to the...
BORN UNDER AN UNLUCKY STAR: DAISY, SWEET PUPPY AFFECTED BY MEGAESOPHAGUS, IS STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE. WE CAN’T LEAVE HER ALONE
Daisy is born "by mistake", as happens to the many litters of strays condemned to wander in hostile lands where abandonment, lack of sterilizations...
CASES OF ANIMAL CRUELTY ARE INCREASING IN DUBAI AND ABU DHABI AS STRAY CATS ARE CONTINUOSLY SHOT BY AIRGUNS
More and more cases of cruelty towards animals have been reported in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The daily conditions in which stray cats are forced to...
KATY, THE GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG, LEFT IN A CAGE FOR YEARS WITH NO CARE AND MEDICAL TREATMENT. NOW SHE IS FREE THANKS TO OIPA AZERBAIJAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AouY3Fq4nI&t=1s The day our International Representative in Azerbaijan was informed about the condition of Katy...
THE UNCERTAIN FATE OF ANIMALS IN AFGHANISTAN: THE ASSOCIATION KABUL SMALL ANIMAL RESCUE IS TRYING TO EVACUATE MORE THAN 250 ANIMALS AND THE STAFF. OIPA INTERNATIONAL WRITES TO U.S. PRESIDENT BIDEN ASKING FOR LANDING PERMIT
The situation in Kabul is now more than critical becoming minutes after minutes seriously dangerous for all those who are on site. Not only humans...
WHAT’S HAPPENING TO STRAYS IN ARUBA? ARE THEY NEUTERED AND RELEASED AS PROMISED OR NOT?
In Aruba, on a population of 110.000 people there is an estimate of 25.000 stray dogs and owned dogs that live on the street without considering the...
ABANDONED ANIMALS IN SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA. GATIUS-UNIENDO VIDAS IS TRYING TO REDUCE THE FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF NOT NEUTERING
Animal abuse and abandonment is sadly widespread in so many places around the world, but on the coast of Colombia particularly in the city of Santa...
MORE THAN 100 ANIMALS LOOKED AFTER BY THE ASSOCIATION SASCAP HAS TO BE MOVED TO ANOTHER SHELTER LOCATION
Our member league association Creature Comfort – SASCAP (Strays Animals Safety and Caring Aid Providers) urgently asks for help. They have to move...
YOUR HELP HAS CONTRIBUTED TO PROVIDE CARE AND TREATMENT TO STRAY CATS OF OIPA CORSE
Many animals wouldn’t have the chance to survive without the precious aid of volunteers that every single day are on site to rescue those injured...
A DISASTER OF EPIC PROPORTIONS IN SARDINIA, ITALY. OIPA VOLUNTEERS ARE GATHERING FOOD FOR STRAYS AND ANIMALS IN DISTRESS
Wildfires have spread quickly across the west part of the island following high temperatures, destroying 20,000 hectares of forest and forcing 1,500...
WORLD TIGER DAY – SOUTH AFRICA BREEDS TIGERS AND LIONS FOR TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
In support of World Tiger Day (29 July), Blood Lions puts the focus on the international trade in tiger body parts and makes the link to South...
OIPA SIERRA LEONE CONTINUES ITS ANIMAL AWARENESS ACTIVITES AND RESCUE OPERATIONS
Following the legal registration at city level of OIPA Sierra Leone, our international representative recently organized a nine days programme...
THE NEW ZIRA, THANKS TO YOUR SUPPORT THE TUMOUR HAS BEEN REMOVED AND SHE CAN NOW SMILE AT LIFE
Do you remember Zira? The sweet dog found roaming in the outskirts of Baku with a huge mass tumour under her belly? Rescued by our OIPA Azerbaijan...
THE COVID IMPACT ON ANIMALS IN CAMBODIA AND THE SPECIAL STORY OF MARIE CLAIRE
The consequences of the global Covid-pandemic hit Cambodia in March and April 2021 and a hard lockdown was implemented basically overnight. For...
AZERI ANIMAL LOVERS PROTEST IN FRONT OF TOPLAN, THE “CARE CENTER FOR HOMELESS DOGS” WHERE STRAYS DISAPPEAR
Last week a group of animal lovers staged a protest in front of the sadly famous Toplan Center in Baku. They were there claiming a street dog named...
CONGRATULATION TO OIPA CAMEROON, WINNER OF THE WORLD ANIMAL DAY GRANT. THEIR PROJECT WILL ASSIST DONKEYS AND HORSES NEGLECTED
OIPA International is delighted to announce that our delegation in Cameroon is one of the four winners of the 2021 World Animal Day grant that will...
A NEW ENTRY IN OIPA’S FAMILY TO FREE THE HOUNDS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
It is a great pleasure to announce a new entry in the list of our member league associations. Free the Hounds is a greyhound welfare advocacy group...
OIPA TURKEY ASKS SUPPORTERS TO HELP BUYING FOOD FOR STRAY DOGS OF KURTKOY FOREST
Volunteers of OIPA Turkey are running out of food and if they can’t feed stray dogs in the area of Kurtkoy forest outside Istanbul, many of them...
JUSTICE FOR BRUNO! BRUTALLY BEATEN TO DEATH BY THREE YOUTHS IN KERALA. OIPA WRITES TO AWBI AND HIGH COURT
A terrible act of animal cruelty perpetrated by three youths at Adimalathura beach in Kerala went viral few days ago. A video showed an innocent dog...
HISTORIC DAY FOR ANIMAL WELFARE IN EUROPE: EU COMMISSION COMMITS TO PHASE OUT CAGES
Today, 30 June 2021, the European Commission made a historic commitment to phase out cages in animal farming across the EU. It plans to prohibit...
SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT RELEASES POLICY DOCUMENT TO END THE CAPTIVE BREEDING INDUSTRY IN THE COUNTRY
South African Minister Barbara Creecy of the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has released a draft Policy Position...
STRAYS CRAMMED INTO CAGES, SPRINKLED WITH WATER AND ELECTROCUTED: STOP GALOUFA IN ALGERIA!
Stray dogs and cats in...
THREE DOGS SEIZED BY OIPA ITALY’S ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICERS. THE OWNER REPORTED FOR ANIMAL CRUELTY AND ABANDONMENT
The animal control officers of OIPA Italy rescued 3 dogs after someone reported the precarious conditions in which these animals were forced to...
NO RESPITE FOR STRAYS IN ALBANIA: DOGS READY TO REACH ITALY FOR FINDING A FAMILY FOREVER FOUND POISONED
Strays in Albania spend their life just trying to survive to the next day from episodes of cruelty and abuse. They don’t have respite in a country...
9TH MEETING OF THE EU ANIMAL WELFARE PLATFORM
Tomorrow, the 9th meeting of the Animal Welfare Platform will be streamed on line. The one-day meeting will open with a message from the Health and...
SOS DUBAI STRAY CATS. SUMMER IS TOUGHER WHEN YOU HAVE NO ACCESS TO FOOD AND WATER
Summer is coming in Dubai and the heavy heat weights on stray animals like a boulder, especially when food and water cannot be guaranteed. People,...
LUCKY WAS HIT BY A CAR AND LEFT SUFFERING WITH A BROKEN JAW. SAVED THANKS TO OIPA AZERBAIJAN
A call during the evening reported a poor feral cat hit by a car. As many times happens, the driver did not stop to assist the animal but left him...
BAN LIVE EXPORTS INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS DAY. THIS CRUEL PRACTISE MUST END: ANIMALS ARE SENTIENT BEINGS!
We are increasingly aware of the suffering and inhumane conditions in which millions of animals are forced to live in farms and are then transported...
ISRAEL, FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO BAN BY LAW FUR SALES
Israel has become the first country in the world to ban the sale of fur fashion. The ban will be effective in six months but it will include some...
#ETHICALTRAVEL, OIPA INTERNATIONAL’S CAMPAIGN ON LONDON’S BUSES. SOME TOURIST PARADISES ARE HELL FOR STRAY ANIMALS
The slogan “Holiday for you, Hell for us. #EthicalTravel” appears across three explanatory pictures to be conveyed by buses in central London until...
END DOG RACING IN NEW ZEALAND: DON’T GAMBLE WITH THEIR LIFE
New Zealand is one of seven countries where commercial dog racing is still allowed. The first dog track opened here in 1934 and despite seven tracks...
ABANDONMENT AND LACK OF NEUTERING PROGRAMMES INCREASE THE NUMBER OF STRAY ANIMALS IN ROMANIA
The population of street animals is uncontrolled in Romania. People continue to abandon and not sterilize their pets and institutions, as many times...
PAKISTAN, IN SINDH REGION THE CULLING OF STRAY DOGS CONTINUES. OIPA REPLIES TO SINDH HEALTH MINISTER
What declared by Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho is simply shocking and unacceptable. The Minister openly affirmed that the...
SHOCKING INVESTIGATION: THE DARK SIDE OF CHINA’S MYSTERY BOX CRAZE
CNN has revealed a new horrific practice of animal cruelty in China. Animals have become victims of a shopping craze called "mystery boxes" highly...
THE EFFECT OF NEONICOTINOIDS ON BEES
Neonicotinoids are a group of insecticides chemically related to nicotine. The name literally means “new nicotine-like insecticides” because as the...
WHICH IS THE ACTUAL STATE OF PROTECTED AND CONSERVED AREAS AROUND THE WORLD? READ THE PROTECTED PLANET REPORT 2020 EDITION
The Protected Planet Report 2020 edition provides the final report on the status of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11, and looks to the future as the...
STRAYS ARE REJECTED AND ABUSED IN MANY COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. CHOOSE TO SUPPORT THE PROJECT OF OIPA INTERNATIONAL AND HELP US TO “SAVE A STRAY”
https://youtu.be/N09vS24K6VQ We are often completely unaware of what happens daily to animals in many realities and mainly because no one tells us...
A CHANCE MEETING WITH OIPA’S VOLUNTEERS SAVES HIS LIFE. NOW PEPPINO WANTS TO TAKE BACK ALL LOST DAYS
An invisible among hundreds of other souls. Peppino was a stray who, like so many other companions in misfortune, was not only condemned to a life...
GREAT SUCCESS FOR THE LAUNCH OF OIPA SENEGAL. ANIMALS WILL NOW RELY ON A BETTER PROTECTION
The official launch of our delegation OIPA Senegal was a great success and we want to congratulate and thank all those who participated to the event...
FOUND SUFFERING AND WITH A BROKEN LEG, MARIO IS NOW SAVE AND ONCE RECOVERED HE WILL LOOK FOR A FAMILY
This 4-months puppy was found exhausted and suffering on a street of Albania. The pain for his broken leg...
KILLING OF STRAY DOGS IN AZERBAIJAN STARTS FROM BAKU AIRPORT. HELP US ASK FOR JUSTICE AND STOP THIS OUTRAGE
Something terrible happened few days ago at Baku Airport in Azerbaijan. Some workers stabbed to death two stray dogs, who used to live around the...
“FOR CROATIA WITHOUT DOGS ON A CHAIN”: OIPA GIVES SUPPORT TO THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
OIPA’s member league Animal Friends Croatia, together with other local associations, have recently launched a national campaign asking for a...
ABANDONED, STRAY AND ENDANGERED ANIMALS CAN NOW FIND PROTECTION THANKS TO THE NEW OIPA DELEGATION IN SENEGAL
We are proud to announce the birth of our new delegation in Senegal, after months of works behind the curtains and the difficulties due to covid-19....
A STORY OF CARE AND COMPASSION FOR STRAYS IN KOBANI, NORTHERN SYRIA
This week we want to present another great example of volunteers and associations that, despite struggling in their Country, do never give up but...
A SHELTER IN DAMASCUS, SYRIA, TO GIVE FORSAKEN ANIMALS A CHANCE TO SURVIVE
https://youtu.be/oXt7R9AwzCE There are no authorities in charge of animal protection and the percentage of citizens who care about them is only the...
