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León program to help both homeless and their animals
The Veterinary Hospital of the University of León and the Spanish Red Cross of León have announced they will open two legal…
Court orders pay rise for NGO workers soliciting support
The highest court in Spain’s central region of Castilla-León has ordered non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and non-profit associations operating in Spain to stop…
High court bars public killing of Toro de la Vega bulls
Spain’s Supreme Court issued a definitive ruling on Monday that bans the public killing of bulls in the controversial Toro de la…
Castilla-León regional court halts hunting in mid-season
The Superior Court of Justice (TSJ) in the region of Castilla-León has issued an injunction stopping hunting at the height of the…
#VIDEO: PACMA takes on bull-slaughter festival
• Animal-rights party to take legal action over mistreatment of bulls in festival • Bulls subject to unimaginable levels of suffering, stress…
#VIDEO: PACMA denounces horses forced to jump through flames in annual ‘Luminarias’ festival
• Partido Animalista documents “festival” in San Bartolomé de Pinares, Ávila • Held each year on eve of Feast of Saint Anthony,…
Confectioner changes name of ‘polvorones’ under pressure over town’s bloody bull-baiting festival
• Tordesillas company bows to pressure, removes reference to bloody festival • Town’s bull-baiting spectacle met with increasingly greater protest each year…
Animal rights group denounces local government permits to shoot greyhounds abandoned by owners
• Authorities in Ávila encourage hunters to kill stray animals • Group says abandoned dogs should be trapped, not shot by hunters…
#VIDEO: Animal Equality says 1.5 mn chicks die inhumanely each day in Spanish poultry incubators
• Animal-rights group says industry treatment of birds is cruel, unnecessary • Massive, avoidable destruction of animals detailed in report and online…