Sentences with phrase «chinese animal activists»

But as the divide grows between older generation dog meat traders and younger generation Chinese animal activists who want the trade to stop, clashes between activists and dog meat traders are becoming more and more commonplace, making events like Yulin a veritable battleground in China's burgeoning animal rights movement.

Chinese animal activists rescued almost 1,000 dogs from a truck transporting them to slaughterhouses in southern Guangdong province.LJQ

Chinese animal activists have shut down an illegal dog slaughterhouse in the city of Dalian - rescuing nine dogs they found still alive.

In the first week of August, 2014, Chinese animal activists helped pull over multiple trucks filled with dogs bound for slaughter in a massive rescue effort that shone a spotlight on the suffering involved in the dog meat trade.

There is a vibrant campaign inside China to end the dog meat trade, with Chinese animal activists staging protests and dog rescues all year round.

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Just weeks ahead of China's annual dog meat festival in Yulin, at which thousands of dogs and cats are brutally bludgeoned to death and sold for their meat, animal campaigners Duo Duo Project and Humane Society International have received reports from Chinese activist and confirmed by three traders at Yulin's biggest dog meat market Dongkou, that the Yulin government is set to prohibit restaurants, street vendors and market traders from selling dog meat at the event.

More than 400 dogs bound for a slaughterhouse in Yunnan Province were rescued by Chinese activists working as part of Humane Society International's newly launched China Animal Rescue Command Center, in one of the tensest dog meat trade rescues in the country so far.

Chinese activists, led by HSI, rescued dozens of terrified animals from a slaughterhouse in Yulin, China, just days ahead of the June 21st annual dog meat festival.

We congratulate the Kunming activists for their success and we will continue our efforts to encourage greater awareness of animal welfare issues, support capacity building, assist in lobbying activities aimed at policy change, respond to distress calls and monitor developments as the Chinese animal protection movement grows.

Reports from the activists state that the truck driver did not have health certificates for the dogs, which Chinese animal transport regulations require for each animal.

Although we don't hear about them due to the country's highly censored internet, there are countless Chinese animal welfare groups made up of incredibly dedicated activists who have been diligently working for years against a system designed to support the exploitation and persecution of animals.

Chinese activists from Vshine Animal Protection Group in - action at Yulin.

The largest exhibition of contemporary Chinese art ever in North America, numbering over 150 works, «Art and Change» has also been highly controversial — before the opening, three works were dropped by the museum after well - publicized protests by animal rights activists.

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) unveiled Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei's monumental sculpture series Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads: Bronze in the reflecting pool of Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square.

The Louvre's decision follows the Guggenheim in New York removing pieces from a major Chinese art survey following an outcry from animal rights activists.