• 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.

Mission:

• The defence and protection of the rights of all non-human sentient animals.

• Belief: each animal has an intrinsic value as an individual.

Activities:

• Public education campaigns (street stalls, talks at schools, organisation of conferences at Universities…)

Make your town an anti-bullfigting town

Make your town an anti-bullfigting town

Activities:

• Campaigns: demos against tests on animals, circuses, bullfights, fur, etc.

Ban museling of Australian sheep

Stop animal suffering in circuses

Don’t wear fur

The truth about Chinese fur

Go to the beach, not to the bullfight!

Activities:

• undercover investigations

• use of the internet as a strong educational and campaigning resource :

www.AnimaisExcepcionais.org, www.SejaVegetariano.org www.CidadeAntiTouradas.org

Successes:

• Strong social change: many people now think that visiting animal circuses and wearing fur are unacceptable acts, and many more condemn bullfights

Successes:

• Ban on pigeon shooting events

• Ban on rodeos

• Managed to bring the bullfighting and animal circus industries to severe economic problems,

Successes:

• Strong social change: many people now think that visiting animal circuses and wearing fur are unacceptable acts, and many more condemn bullfights

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