⏰ We are in Strasbourg where the last session of the @AWintergroup will start in 15 minutes (10:00 CEST).

EU candidates will respond to citizens' concerns about #animalwelfare and list their priorities for the next mandate. 🗳️🇪🇺

Follow live on YouTube: youtube.com/live/3j2VvNymByM #VoteforAnimals

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Kendall is right for once…

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What are the EU candidates' priorities on #animalwelfare? 👇

The last session of the @AWintergroup of this term has concluded and the candidates shared their ambitious plans to create a more just and kinder Europe for animals.

Watch the recording to listen to their pledges: youtube.com/watch?v=3j2VvNym…

Among the topics mentioned:
🚛 live animal transport
🐔 #EndTheCageAge
🐭 a humane science
🇪🇺 A commissioner for #animalwelfare
🐯 Wild animals #VoteforAnimals #EUelections #UseYourVote

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💡 "What can be done to #DoBetterForAnimals ?", we asked @henrymance, Chief Features Writer at @FT and author of How To Love Animals

“Don’t be afraid to make this a political issue. Politics is there to reflect the will of voters” he says.

📽️ Full video: shorturl.at/kBH48

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“No climate & biodiversity policies are a threat to our economy, quite the opposite,” says @VSinkevicius in defence of the Nature Restoration Law

🤯 He also shares mind-blowing numbers of last year's floods in Slovenia

❗️ The costs of dealing with the aftermath of tragic floods reached 16% of the country’s GDP. Floods that will likely repeat if we don’t #RestoreNature!

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When you see someone in these, there’s a story behind every single feather. And it’s not pretty 💔

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Celebrate #WorldPenguinDay with the largest #penguin of all - the emperor penguin! 🐧

Help protect these special #seabirds with a symbolic adoption today: oceana.ly/3JuPrB9

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Plastic pollution is suffocating our planet – and it's only getting worse.

Governments and businesses: we need URGENT action to #StopPlasticPollution once and for all. #INC4

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Fact: 90% of the world's most bottom-trawled seas are in Europe.⁠

Fact: The 🇪🇺 allows it in 'protected' waters.

Fact: We can help end this marine decimation. ✊🏾 ⁠

Add your name here & tell the EU to #BanBottomTrawling! 👉 seas-at-risk.org/join-the-mo… @onlyone @OceanaEurope

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RT @ciel_tweets: 📢 NEW: 196 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have registered to participate for the critical #INC4 #PlasticsTreaty talks in Ottawa.

That’s more participants than the entire EU delegation, scientists, and Indigenous Peoples.

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RT @SkyNews: A night of relentless rainfall in Ngando, a town in Nairobi, left many residents lacking basic necessities.

Flooding and mudslides have also been reported in western Kenya.

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Did you know that students perform better when given non-animal methods instead of dissecting animals?

In this ‘Just So You Know’ episode, @itsjamiescorner & @JustinaAdorno dive into dissection & its impact on teachers, naturally empathetic children, & animals.

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Susan Nagi, AKA Trash Travels Across America, is our #1 participant in the #CleanEarthChallenge. To date, Susan has picked up nearly 50,000 pieces of litter! Help us collect 4 million pieces of trash and join today 📲: cleanearthchallenge.com. #NationalVolunteerWeek

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If you missed the premiere of #ChangingPlanetPBS year 3, don’t worry. Catch up with @ConservationOrg CEO Dr. @msanjayan on his journey. He’s headed to the Maldives to take part in a world-first collaboration that could be the key to restoring reefs.

Watch now on @PBS in the U.S.

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Meet Messi, a rescued horse with skills that would make his namesake, the soccer legend, proud. Saved from India's horse-cart trade by Animal Rahat, his story is just beginning ⚽

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Happy #WorldPenguinDay! Today is extra special as we celebrate these incredible creatures, some of whom we've just encountered in #Antarctica. 
Help us protect #penguins by joining our krill investigation. Learn more here: seashe.ph/krill-investigator

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Over the weekend, the Seahorse crew found a dead sea lion. It appears to have died due to an entanglement. Large gill nets kill anything and everything that falls in its path.
Stay connected to your local food sources and reconsider industrialized fishing products.

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Is nearly drowning small animals the answer to helping treat humans? Short answer: NO! @PETAUK animal defenders are reminding University of Bristol that the forced swim test is a shame to science! 😖 #WW4AIL

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It’s our birthday! Founded in 1947, we changed our name soon after to reflect our expanded mission. Honoring our original & current mission, we were the 1st national #conservation group to call for #wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone. Learn more about us: dfnd.us/aboutus

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Her misery never should have been anyone’s “entertainment.”

This exhibitor is out of business now, but other animals abused in circuses still need help!

Urge Carson & Barnes Circus to stop exploiting elephants now👉peta.vg/3vkp

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We're thrilled to honor @JeffBezos and Lauren Sánchez with the Global Visionary Award for their work through the @BezosEarthFund. Thank you, Jeff and Lauren, for helping protect our planet’s future.

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