Our positions and statements
Joint demand of international environmental and animal protection associations - February 2021
Demand paper from 14 animal and species protection organizations on trophy hunting abroad
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Joint statement of 15 animal and species protection organizations on the draft bill of an "Animal Protection Circus Ordinance" - December 2020
"TierSchZirkV" of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
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The positions of Future for Elephants on CITES CoP18 - March 2019
Recommendations to proposals and working documents reffering to elephants
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Letters signed by us and other NGOs
Open letter to the President Mr. Hakainde Hichilema of the Republic of Zambia - December 2021.
Transport of two and three elephant calves respectively from Zambia (South Luangwa) to Quatar to Doha Zoo
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Planned sales of elephant calves in Zimbabwe: request for CITES intervention - August 2021
Ministerial update on the elephant auction
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Wild elephant sale in Namibia: request for more information on the auction, buyers and destination countries - August 2021
Request for urgent intervention by the cites secretariat to stop the imminent capture of young elephants in zimbabwe for export to captive facilites
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Joint letter to Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo - 18 February 2021
The coalition’s actions are part of an ongoing international effort to persuade Governor Koike and the committee to close Tokyo’s ivory market
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Joint NGO position - February 2021
Position based on the Revision of EU rules on ivory trade
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Letter to the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism in Namibia - 11 January 2021
Concerns over impact of removal of Omatjete Elephants-Kunene region
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Joint letter from international environmental associations and scientists to the President of Nambia and the Minister for Environment and Tourism, copy to the CITES Secretariat - December 2020
Urgent appeal regarding the planned commercial sale of 170 wild elephants in Namibia
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Joint NGO Statement on the Animal Welfare Circus Ordinance of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture - 18 Dezember 2020
On the draft bill of an "Ordinance on the protection of animals when keeping and displaying at changing locations"
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Joint NGO position based on the Revision of EU rules on ivory trade - October 2020
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Making the EU fit for the future: Demands of German environmental associations for the European Green Deal - 22 October 2020
Protection of our environment and biodiversity and consideration of environmental concerns in sustainable food systems
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Letter to the Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture, Julia Klöckner, and to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Svenja Schulze - 26 August 2020
Avoid compromising Germany in the vote on the ban on lead shot ammunition in wetlands
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Letter to the cultural center Gasteig with the request to reconsider the display of hunting trophies on the occasion of the exhibition "jajaneinneinvielleicht" - 21 August 2020
Prepared animals in the Gasteig's glass hall
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German animal welfare associations' reaction to Dortmund's decision to allow the sale of holiday hunts for commercial reasons - 2 July 2020
Fair Dortmund: Trophy hunting offers at the "Jagd & Hund"
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German environmental associations' demands on the EU-Council Presidency
Making the EU fit for the future
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Letter to Mr Virginijus Sinkevičius, EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries,
and Ms Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission - 15 May 2020
Regulation of wildlife trade under the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030
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Letter to the World Health Organization - 6 April 2020
COVID-19: Health risks and wildlife markets – the need for a permanent global ban on wildlife markets
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Press reports:
Coronavirus: Hundreds of conservation experts join forces to pressure WHO to force live animal markets to close
Charities demand an end to China's craze for wild meat linked to coronavirus outbreak
Letter to the Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn - 20 March 2020
Covid-19 and other zoonotic viral diseases: Animal welfare and conservation associations are calling for a ban on imports of wild animals
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CITES-decision regarding export of wild-caught elephants from Zimbabwe and Botswana to China, Pakistan and elsewhere:
Urgent request to adapt Live Animal Regulations to reflect the revised definition of "appropriate and acceptable destinations"
Letter to IATA, Montreal - 13 February 2020
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Letter to Saudia Cargo Airline - 13 February 2020
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Letter to the city Dortmund - 13 January 2020
Sales of vacation trips to kill animals of endangered species at the fair "Jagd & Hund"
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Letter to Julia Klöckner, Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture - 4 July 2019
Call for a ban on wild animals in the circus
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Second letter to the German travel association - 28 June 2019
Botswana - Lifting of the hunting ban
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Letter to the Chief of the Phuket Provincial Office, Thailand - 13 June 2019
Death of Baby Elephant at Phuket Zoo
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Background: Baby elephant must die because zoo forces him to perform cruel tricks
Letter to Minister of Environment Svenja Schulze - 23 May 2019
Urgent appeal to include the giraffe in CITES Appendix II
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Letter to Prime Minister Theresa May - 13 April 2019
Ban of imports of hunting trophies to UK
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Letter to the German travel association - 2 April 2019
Botswana - trophy hunting and culling of elephants
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Letter to the Embassy of Botswana in Berlin - 2 April 2019
Urgent appeal to protect Botswana as a safe haven for elephants and other wildlife
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Open Letter to Mokgweetsi Masisi, President of Botswana - 13 March 2019
Urgent appeal not to reinstate trophy hunting and not to allow regular elephant culling
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Open Letter to Mr Thanya Netithamkul, Director General Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation - February 2019
End the use of animals in circus entertainment at the zoo
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Open Letter to the Governor of Jakarta, Anies Baswedan - February 2019
End the use of animals in performances at Seaworld in Ancol
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Letter to the city Dortmund - 21 January 2019
Offers for trophy hunts at the fair "Jagd & Hund"
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Open Letter to the President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi - 12 July 2018
Request to maintain the ban of trophy hunting on elephants
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Open Letter to the EU environment ministers - 22 June 2018
Call for the closure of the European ivory market
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Open Letter to the EU Commissioner Karmenu Vella - May 2018
International commercial trade in an endangered whale species
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Open Letter to India's Prime Minister Modi - April 2018
Mistreatment of Temple Elephants
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Open Letter to the Japanese Consulate General in Munich - October 2017
"End Japan's Ivory Trade"
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