founded in 1994 as a local group, it became national in 2001. close work with international groups...
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• Founded in 1994 as a local group, it became national in 2001.
• Close work with international groups such as PETA, CIWF, WSPA, Dutch Anti-Bullfighting Committee, etc. proved to be effective way to forward work in Portugal.
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Mission:
• The defence and protection of the rights of all non-human sentient animals.
• Belief: each animal has an intrinsic value as an individual.
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Activities:
• Public education campaigns (street stalls, talks at schools, organisation of conferences at Universities…)
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Make your town an anti-bullfigting town
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Make your town an anti-bullfigting town
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Activities:
• Campaigns: demos against tests on animals, circuses, bullfights, fur, etc.
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Ban museling of Australian sheep
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Stop animal suffering in circuses
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Don’t wear fur
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The truth about Chinese fur
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Go to the beach, not to the bullfight!
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Activities:
• undercover investigations
• use of the internet as a strong educational and campaigning resource :
www.AnimaisExcepcionais.org, www.SejaVegetariano.org www.CidadeAntiTouradas.org
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Successes:
• Strong social change: many people now think that visiting animal circuses and wearing fur are unacceptable acts, and many more condemn bullfights
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Successes:
• Ban on pigeon shooting events
• Ban on rodeos
• Managed to bring the bullfighting and animal circus industries to severe economic problems,
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Successes:
• Strong social change: many people now think that visiting animal circuses and wearing fur are unacceptable acts, and many more condemn bullfights
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Main problems faced:
• Very difficult to raise funds even with excellent media coverage of campaigns
• No response from Portuguese authorities to requests of the Portuguese public and MPs