-
Italian Senate gives its first approval to include animal and environmental protection in the Constitution!
“It is a crucial vote that will enable our country to leap forward and finally recognize the protection of animals, the environment, ecosystems and biodiversity in the Basic Law of our country.
-
3 macaques released from the labs of Verona University, now taken care by LAV!
Another University, after those of Modena and Padua, has decided to abandon tests on monkeys forever! A result made possible thanks to institutions and the academic world, and specifically
-
LAV international project in Kosovo for stray dogs control and rescue
For more than 40 years, LAV has been standing for animals in Italy. But animal rights must have no border: this is why LAV – in cooperation with ATB, the Kosovan Animal Rights Foundation
-
Victory! Italy bans the import, detention and trade of wild and exotic animals
News updated on April 26th 2021 European Delegation Law was published on May 23rd on Gazzetta Ufficiale (the Italian official law bulletin), therefore, the deadline for the implementation Law is
-
Covid-19 and mink farms: Action Day to urge the EU to act
Throughout the past year, there have been outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19 to humans) on more than 400 mink farms in ten EU Member States, with millions of animals affected. It
-
LAV: 37 billion euros, the environmental and health impacts of meat consumption in Italy
The environmental and health costs of meat "production" and consumption are not included in the price that citizens pay when buying food of animal origin. These "hidden costs" are
-
Covid and rearing of minks: a scientific statement on public health risks
Scientific experts from all-above Europe, including Italian well-known scientists such as Andrea Crisanti, Fabrizio Pregliasco, Nicola Decaro, have joined a common appeal to the European
-
The Italian State Council has decided: tests on macaque monkeys can be resumed
The Italian Council of State* has decided: experiments on the brain of macaques kept in the laboratory of the University of Parma for the Light-Up Study can be resumed, after a few months. For
-
Covid and mink: video-investigation reveal violation on anti-Covid regulations
Violations of biosafety norms in place to fight the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus emergency in Italy's mink breeding sector. The violations have been documented by LAV, releasing exclusive images, also
-
Covid and mink: outbreak in mink farm in Italy, already in August
Positive to SARS-CoV-2 at least 2 samples - taken in August - from mink from an Italian farm: this was revealed by LAV, which obtained this information only after numerous and insistent appeals and
-
Ferragamo says goodbye to kangaroo skin. A victory for kangaroos
Ferragamo's decision was made in the context of a Sustainability path that the company has been involved in for some time, and which reinforces LAV's request to the Italian government to ban
-
LAV victory: the State Council suspends tests on macaque monkeys again
The State council has overturned the ruling of last May's TAR, in concordance with the LAVs findings and has therefore ordered (after the sentence from last January), a second suspension of the