World Federation for Animals

09/01/2026

How does humane education help advance ? ⤵️

Hear it from Jackie Kelleher and the work they do at Helen Woodward Animal Center.

We cannot achieve the SDGs without accounting for animals. 🐾

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08/31/2026

The Federation is growing! 📣

Three new organisations are joining the WFA, expanding our global network to a total of 76 members across all continents.

🔹 Based in Zimbabwe, Sibanye Animal Welfare and Conservancy Trust work across animal welfare, conservation, climate, and biodiversity.
🔹 SEY Suomen eläinsuojelu is one of Finland’s leading animal welfare organisations combining policy advocacy, shelter work and active engagement in European-level animal welfare efforts.
🔹 Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal is a Brazilian non-profit working to raise awareness and transform society to help end animal suffering, cruelty and the worst practices against animals.

👉 Learn more: https://ow.ly/gZr650ZHoGA

08/28/2026

Interested in the latest global policy developments for animals? 📣

This edition of Pulse covers the World Health Organization (WHO) Assembly ( ), the mid-year climate talks in Bonn ( ), and the United Nations Biodiversity's scientific advisory meeting in Nairobi ( ).

👉 More: https://ow.ly/ZOj950ZGwxW

08/26/2026

In the UK, around 95% of chickens farmed for meat are reared in industrial units, with the vast majority being fast-growing "Frankenchickens". 🐓

The new Netflix documentary 'Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy' examines the human and environmental impacts of fast-food chicken production, highlighting the hidden cost to the birds themselves.

The film features commentary from Compassion in World Farming Global CEO Philip Lymbery, who addresses the urgent need to transition toward higher-welfare systems.

Available now on Netflix 👉

The harm caused by industrial poultry production is given a global platform

08/25/2026

We sat down with Nicholas Ceolin from Compassion in World Farming to talk about industrial livestock.

What does real innovation look like under if we want a sustainable food system? 👇

We cannot achieve the SDGs without accounting for animals. 🐾

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08/24/2026

This week's top headlines that matter for animals 👇

🟢 Three more African countries (Mauritius, Mozambique, and the Republic of the Congo) have joined Malawi, Kenya, and Madagascar in supporting a precautionary pause on deep-seabed mining until its impacts are better understood. This pause is positive news for aquatic animals, as deep-seabed mining machinery destroys seafloor habitats, and creates underwater noise and light pollution, among other threats to marine life.

🟢 Starting 8 August, animal search, rescue, and relief operations are integrated into municipal civil protection activities in Portugal following an amendment to the Civil Protection Framework Law. The updated legislation includes planning for animal evacuation, sheltering, and provisioning during emergencies, adds an animal reception zone to operations, and incorporates animal health representatives into national, district, and municipal civil protection committees.

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08/21/2026

The ocean absorbs an estimated 25% of all human-caused CO2 emissions, making it one of our biggest allies in slowing global warming. 🌊

New research examines how much of this capacity depends on marine life itself, exploring an extreme scenario where all marine life has been wiped out.

The study shows that without marine life, the ocean’s capacity to capture CO2 emissions "would be significantly diminished". Plankton and other marine life drive what's known as the "biological carbon pump": carbon is captured at the surface and carried down to the deep sea as organisms die or migrate, locking it away for decades.

👉 The researchers estimate that the sinking of organic matter sequesters around 2.8 billion tonnes of carbon a year. This is equivalent to roughly 10 billion tonnes of CO2, or about 27% of 2024's global fossil fuel emissions.

📄 Read more via Carbon Brief: https://ow.ly/yra550ZBUpy

08/20/2026

"Our legal system protects nature for human ends – a serious limitation." 💬

If corporations can have legal personhood, why not nature?

In his latest article, Philip Lymbery calls for a shift toward embracing animal sentience and granting nature the right to exist freely. ⤵️

Read more via The Scotsman : https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/sounds-crazy-but-rivers-are-people-too-how-scotland-can-learn-from-the-maori-8842093

From animal sentience to the rights of rivers and nature as a whole, a new idea is taking hold

08/19/2026

Can seaweed transform ? 🐟

Seaweed farming is already expanding rapidly, creating new economic opportunities for coastal communities, requiring relatively few inputs and offering a pathway to produce food with less pressure on aquatic animals.

Read more via Vegconomist: https://ow.ly/4HuF50ZAwuT

Ethical Seafood Research

Wasseem Emam is the Founder and Executive Director of Ethical Seafood Research (ESR), a UK-registered nonprofit advancing animal welfare in aquatic food

08/18/2026

Last month during , we sat down with Ian Cawsey from The Donkey Sanctuary.

Why is animal welfare so critical to the future of the planet and our health and wellbeing?

We cannot achieve the SDGs without accounting for animals. 🐾

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