Humane World for Animals Europe

Myths and misinformation about wolves have serious consequences for wolf conservation and recovery and stoke unnecessary fear. We're celebrating wolves and fighting for their protection. Story Warren with Humane World for Animals highlights this issue further in her essay “Spreading fear about wolves never goes out of style,”.  👉🏻 writersontherange.org/spread… #HumaneWorld

🦊 Fur farming is often seen as a fashion or animal welfare issue, but it is also a public health one. On fur farms, species like mink, foxes and raccoon dogs are bred in intensive caged confinement. Under these conditions, viruses can spread, adapt and potentially spill over to people. Past outbreaks on fur farms across Europe show that this risk isn’t theoretical. 👉🏻 Share this post and keep following to discover more about fur farming and how you can help. #HumaneWorld #FurFreeFuture #FurFreeEurope

Did you know hens can see colours and shades that humans can’t? 🐔 Unlike us, they have four types of colour-sensitive cones in their eyes, giving them a richer perception of colour than our own. It’s just one of the many fascinating things about hens. Yet today, there are almost 400 million hens on EU farms, and more than a third of them are still confined in cage systems that deny them the space to move freely and express their natural behaviour. Understanding these animals means recognising that their world is more complex than we might imagine and that their needs deserve to be taken seriously. #HumaneWorld #FarmAnimals #FarmAnimalWelfare #EndTheCageAge

🐔 Ever had a day with zero choices: no say in where you go, who you're near, or what you do? For millions of hens, that's every day. In nature, she'd forage, nest, dustbathe, socialise, move and explore her surroundings: real choices, every single day. In a cage, she has none of them. ▶️ Watch the video to see what the cage really takes away. 👉🏻 Share this post and keep following to discover how you can help hens. #HumaneWorld #FarmAnimals #FarmAnimalWelfare #CluckCluck #EndTheCageAge

Behind every meal there’s a choice, and for farmed animals, that choice matters. 💚 Creating a kinder world for animals doesn't always require big changes. Small, consistent actions can make a meaningful difference:⁣ ⁣ 🥄 Choose more plant-based meals when you can.⁣ 🥣 Support higher welfare food options.⁣ 🌱 Explore new plant-based recipes and share them with family and friends.⁣ 📢 Speak up for stronger animal welfare standards in your community and country.⁣ 🤝 Encourage conversations about building more humane and sustainable food systems.⁣ ⁣ Every action, no matter how small, helps create a future where animals are treated with greater compassion and respect. Together, we can be part of the change. #WorldVeganDay

Ever seen a hen roll around in the dirt? It’s not just play: it’s how she keeps clean. 🐔 Dustbathing is a natural comfort behaviour that helps maintain her plumage by removing excess oil and parasites. It’s a complex ritual: hens stretch their legs, scratch the ground, roll their bodies, shake their wings, preen and rub themselves in loose material like sand or sawdust. And it’s contagious: dustbathing is a social activity, and when one hen starts, the others often join in. Without a suitable material, such as sand or sawdust, hens still try. But they can only perform part of the behaviour, leaving a basic need unmet. This happens when they are confined in cages where they can't move and live freely. Every hen deserves the space and conditions to behave like a hen! She needs space, not a cage. #HumaneWorld #FarmAnimals #FarmAnimalWelfare #EndTheCageAge

Never. Skip. BEANSDAY. 🫘 We've bean waiting for you. Every Wednesday, we're swapping meat for beans with Beansday™. That's it. That's the whole assignment. If Kevin Bacon can become Kevin Bean once a week, we can all make one simple swap. Beans are packed with protein and fiber, easy on your wallet, and a kinder choice for animals. And when enough people join in, those little swaps can make a very big difference. See you next Wednesday, Bean Team. Stop beefing. Start beaning! 🫘 #HumaneWorld #BeansDay

🐔Hens are social, sentient animals. They communicate with one another, learn from their surroundings and experience sensations and feelings. They also have natural behaviours and needs that shape their daily lives. Yet cage systems restrict many of the behaviours and choices that matter to them. 🗣️The more we understand about hens, the more we can see what cages take away. Keep following to discover more about hens and how you can help end cage farming. #HumaneWorld #FarmAnimals #FarmAnimalWelfare #CluckCluck #EndTheCageAge

Over 200,000 emails. One shared demand. One step forward for animals. ❤️ Woolrich Europe has announced it will go fur-free, following a campaign led by Humane World for Animals in collaboration with the Fur Free Alliance. Last year, we called on people around the world to email the brand and urge it to leave fur behind. More than 200,000 emails were sent, alongside street events outside Woolrich stores across Europe, helping shine a spotlight on the company's involvement in the cruel fur trade. Now, Woolrich Europe has committed to ending production of new garments containing animal fur by the end of 2026, with any remaining stock then sold off. It's an important step forward, showing how collective action can help drive change across an entire industry. But our work isn't over. We're urging the @EU_Commission to recognise this progress as a sign of changing attitudes and put an end to fur farming once and for all. Read the full story on our blog: humaneworld.org/en/blog/wool… #HumaneWorld #FurFreeEurope #FurFreeFuture

A major win for animals: Denmark is pulling the plug on mink farming! 🎉 Once the world’s largest mink fur producer, Denmark has decided not to seek an exemption to continue farming mink when the EU ban on keeping American mink takes effect in August 2027. This means the country’s last seven mink farms will close, putting animal welfare ahead of the commercial interests of a dying industry. Science played a key role: the European Food Safety Authority has made it clear that meaningful welfare improvements are impossible in cage-based fur production. Fur farming is already banned in 24 European countries. Yet more than 6 million mink, foxes, raccoon dogs and other animals are still confined in small wire cages on almost 1,200 fur farms across the EU. We urge the European Commission to listen to the more than 1.5 million citizens who signed the European Citizens’ Initiative for a Fur Free Europe and deliver an EU-wide ban on fur farming. A huge thank you to our @FurFreeAlliance partner @Anima_Int for decades of tireless campaigning. 🩵 #HumaneWorld #FurFreeEurope #FurFreeFuture

There is a premise that should underpin every budget law, a way of thinking that goes beyond budget lines and individual provisions: how should our public resources be distributed? This question matters even more when some people are left to pay out of their own pockets for the consequences of violence perpetrated by others. From this perspective, paragraphs 847 and 848 of Article 1 of Italy’s 2026 Budget Law tell a story that is small in financial terms, but significant in principle. The two provisions, introduced through an amendment put forward by Senator Anna Bilotti (Five Star Movement), allocate €1 million per year in 2026 and 2027 to cover the costs of caring for and housing animals seized or confiscated because they were used in animal fighting. This is not merely a budgetary detail. For the first time, dedicated public funding recognises that behind every dog rescued from a blood-soaked fighting arena lies a cost—social, behavioural and veterinary—that someone must bear in order to alleviate, as far as possible, these animals’ physical and psychological suffering. The amendment is the result of years of field work carried out through the “Io non combatto” (“I Don’t Fight”) project, led by Humane World for Animals Italia and @FondazioneCC. Read more in the op-ed by –@fazzi_ale and @Martina_Pluda, country director at Humane World for Animals Italy, on @fattoquotidiano 👉🏻 ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/09… #IoNonCombatto