Our partner since 1903, SPCA Hong Kong just opened a new state-of-the-art #AnimalWelfare centre. We dropped by to plan continuing the historic collaboration between our inspectorates through mutual visits, job-shadowing, training and skill-sharing in rescue and investigations! 🇭🇰🤝🇬🇧

More than 120 early years teachers join our 3-day #AnimalWelfare #education training course in Rugao, Jiangsu Province🇨🇳, incorporating study of minibeasts 🦋🐛🐌🐞🐜🪱🐝🪰🕷️🦗into values education: beauty of nature, animals’ needs, respect for life, responsibility, kindness…

SMACC has put together 'Ask Yourself' video series, which aim to help anyone identify cruelty content that features wild animals as pets! Remember to utilize all of these indicators when you encounter similar animal content and #AskYourself

The #UN has designated 2026 International Year of #Rangelands & Pastoralists iyrp.info . At a recent meeting in Beijing🇨🇳 I joined the conversation to stress the place of #AnimalWelfare #OneHealth in responsible stewardship of the world’s rangelands 🌱🐫🐐🐑🦙🦅🐆

Recently the 🇨🇳International Cooperation Committee on Animal Welfare and partners hosted the #Sustainable Natural Fibres Global Conference in Beijing. #AnimalWelfare standards are increasingly being incorporated into the production of cashmere, mohair, down etc.
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Excellent work delivered by the World Organisation for Animal Health in Europe in 2023 to improve the implementation of animal welfare standards and guidance in 53 countries of Europe . RSPCA International very proud to support this important initiative alongside other partners.

Abstract submission is OPEN! Students - read the small letters!

Congratulations to our member RSPCA (England & Wales) on celebrating their 200th anniversary this year! 🙌🎉

To mark the occasion we spoke to Chris Sherwood who explained how the organisation has been committed to #AnimalWelfare since 1824. ❤️

Full interview ➡️ bit.ly/48yZ5Nr

For more detailed commentary on our current work with a coalition of animal welfare NGO partners in engaging with the 🇺🇳UN: linkedin.com/posts/paullitt…

Live at concluding plenary of #UNEA6 , RSPCA (England & Wales) joins members of World Federation for Animals and partners among 5,500 delegates: national representatives of 🇺🇳Member States, civil society/NGOs, business, other international agencies and wider stakeholders. #AnimalWelfare #OneHealth

Scoping work for the Nexus Report has already taken place so it’s vital that the momentum is maintained to deliver to 🇺🇳 #UNEA an evidence-based report of quality on which to base future 🌍 multilateral work for #AnimalWelfare

At #UNEA6 WHO DG Ghebreyesus notes importance of #Quadripartite World Health Organization (WHO) Food and Agriculture Organization UN Environment Programme World Organisation for Animal Health partnership in addressing the ‘Triple Planetary Crisis’ - #climatechange #pollution and #biodiversity loss 🌍☀️🌊🌴🐘🐃🫏🐋

Overnight from ❄️2 deg Tokyo🇯🇵 to ☀️28 deg Nairobi🇰🇪, very happy to be able to join wonderful colleagues from fellow NGO members of World Federation for Animals and partners Brooke 🐴🧡, supporting 🇺🇳Member States in including #AnimalWelfare #OneHealth #Sustainability in #UNEA6 resolutions!

In Tokyo🇯🇵🌸 with partners 公益社団法人 日本動物福祉協会(本部) we are cohosting our two-day Teaching Respect for Life #AnimalWelfare #Education workshop with 60+ keen educators. This is the second year here for consultant David Coggan, helping deliver a key priority in the RSPCA (England & Wales) 2030 strategy.

Great event by Regional Animal Welfare Centre - RAWC is ahead of us. Don't be sorry - send your abstract ASAP.. :)

Great new comment piece by Georgia Mason on the challenges related to validity (internal, external, and construct) in animal welfare science and how we might make progress in creating more rigorous research:
link.springer.com/article/10.118…

RSPCA vows to reform treatment of chickens in UK | Animal welfare | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…

Thanks to RSPCA (England & Wales) partners Japan Animal Welfare Society for organising February’s two-day ‘Respect for Life’ #AnimalWelfare #education seminar in Tokyo 🇯🇵 with Paul Littlefair 李 博 and specialist David Coggan. Teachers and educators welcome!