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ADI reports on latest animal politics

Animal Defenders International (ADI), the international animal campaigning group, launches its report, Political Animals (PDF - 5MB), for the Political Party Conference season to highlight current animal protection issues and campaigns:

• REACH – ADI is encouraging its supporters to send e-cards from the ADI website to their MEPs to protest against EU proposals for additional unnecessary experiments on millions of animals. ADI is also setting out an alternative strategy to use advanced scientific and technological techniques in the place of animal experiments – found by scientific studies to be misleading.
  
  
• Animal Welfare Bill – ADI has been campaigning for over 10 years to end the use of animals in circuses. MORI and NOP opinion polls conducted by ADI indicate overwhelming public support for a ban on animals travelling with circuses.
  
  
• Dangerous Wild Animals Act – ADI’s new initiative, ‘My Mate’s a Primate’, recently launched by Alexei Sayle, focused on four major threats to primates – the pet trade, their use in entertainment (TV, advertising, films and live shows) and in laboratory experiments and as bushmeat.
  
  
• Kinshasa GRASP declaration – ADI attended the Kinshasa UNEP/ UNESCO Conference to save the great apes and applauded the UK government for signing the declaration, as the largest single contributor to GRASP. ADI reported that 209 rangers had died over the past 10 years protecting the animals from poachers.