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A tourist travelling in Albania noticed a bear trapped in a cage in a restaurant. This bear is used as tourist attraction and he shows clear signs of discomfort. Our volunteers in Albania did an inspection to check the status of the animal. Clearly the ow...

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Vegetable oil, palm oil, margarine, palm olein, palm stearine, vegetable fats, vegetable glycerine, sorbitan oleate, sorbitan palmitate, glyceryl oleate, Cocoa butter equivalent (CBE), Cocoa butter substitute (CBS)… These are just few of the over 200 co...

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End of October 2015. Among the most important international news agencies, the report of WHO about the correlation between processed meat and the onset of cancer. The powerful meat corporation (and in parallel, its derivatives) is under direct attacks: wh...

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The Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, commonly referred to as Yulin Dog Meat Festival, is an annual celebration held in Yulin, Guangxi, China, during the summer solstice in which festival goers eat dog meat and lychees. The festival spans about ten days durin...

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September 2016 – SAD NEWS: BALU IS DISAPPEARED! After months of appeals and campaining, the bear trapped in a cage in the restaurant Kodra e Kuajve in Durres, is disappeared as you can see from the empty cage. Balu (known as well as Poku) was a 4 years ...

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Rabbits are exceptional pet, and even more when it is possible to build a relationship with them. It is fundamental to remember that rabbits are surely not like dogs or cats: they are not better or worse. They are simply different. For example, they are r...

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Europe is clearly divided up into two main areas: Western one and Eastern one. Due to its wellness and wealth, the former has always been the final destination of the illegal trade in all those considered illicit products, whereas the latter has been comp...

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March 2017 – TUNISIA, THE GOVERNMENT KEEPS KILLING THE DOGS In order to control the huge number of stray dogs the Tunisian Government ordered to kill all the stray dogs, Municipality and Police Officers shoot them on daily basis and leave them die a...

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A single person CAN make the difference. . . In a pastoral community where women are traditionally expected to defer to their husbands and keep their opinions private, a 16-year-old Ekiru insisted on attending community meetings that were normally the pre...

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A jaguar featured at an Olympic torch ceremony has been shot dead by a soldier shortly after escaping from its handlers, following the event in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus. The jaguar was killed on Monday at a zoo attached to a military training c...

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