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Find out what the media have been saying about our campaigns.

Find out what the media have been saying about our campaigns.

  2024  


▸Taipei Times: Cage-free poultry drive failing: groups | February 26, 2024

▸Taiwan News: Taiwan behind Bhutan, S. Korea in transition to cage-free eggs | February 25, 2024

▸Focus Taiwan: Lawmakers urge friendly farming environment for egg-laying hens | February 22, 2024 [Paywall]

 


 

  2023  
 

Pressure for a Ban on Battery Cages in Taiwan
November 10, 2023

 


 

Upgrading Taiwan's Chicken Farms
March 24, 2023

 


 

Taiwan Passes Climate Bill Mandating the Promotion of Plant-Based Foods
January 16, 2023

 

▸Taiwan News: Taiwan protesters call for an end to battery hens | December 2, 2023

▸Taiwan News: ‘Set hens free’ mural outside Taiwan’s Executive Yuan calls for battery cage ban | October 28, 2023

▸Taipei Times: A bad thing done by well-intentioned people: the cruel practice of ‘mercy release’ | August 9, 2023

▸Taiwan News: Taiwan’s support for cage-free chickens, eggs gathers pace | July 27, 2023

▸Taipei Times: Environmental groups protest bottom trawling | June 17, 2023

Taiwan Plus: Rare shark catch prompts calls for stricter regulations on trawling | June 16, 2023

Taiwan News: Taiwan's egg supply stabilizes, transition away from cage eggs begins | June 17, 2023

Taipei Times: Environmental groups protest bottom trawling | June 17, 2023

Taiwan Plus: Rare shark catch prompts calls for stricter regulations on trawling | June 16, 2023

Taipei American School: TAS students' film explains how cage-free chickens means better options for all | May 1, 2023

Taiwan News: National Geographic Taiwan photo contest 2023 rejects bird photos | April 13, 2023

Taiwan Plus: Taipei Zoo's Happy Chicken Village for animal welfare | March 23, 2023

Taiwan Plus: Promoting a plant-based diet in Taiwan | March 22, 2023

Taipei Times: Groups call for better chicken-raising practices | March 15, 2023

▸Taiwan Business Topics: Rough Waters: Taiwanese Fishing Boats Reeling From Forced Labor Charges | February 15, 2023

Taipei Times: Bird-watchers abusing birds: group | February 9, 2023

Plant Based News: Taiwan to promote plant-based foods following new climate bill | January 24, 2023

Green Queen: It’s the law: Taiwan’s new climate bill mandates government backing of plant-based diets | January 23, 2023
 



  2022  

 

Formosan Rock Macaque Ownership To Be Banned
August 11, 2022



 

Will McDonald’s Go Cage-Free in Taiwan? Activists Apply Pressure on the Chain
June 24, 2022

 



 

Taiwan Bans Battery Cages on Duck Farms in World First
February 16, 2022

 

One Green Planet: Five turtles were released back to the ocean after decades of captivity | November 23, 2022

Taiwan Business Topics: Turning the tide on ocean waste | November 10, 2022

Taiwan News: Inhumane treatment of sick farm animals in Taiwan exposed | November 6, 2022

Focus Taiwan: Taiwan's non-profit organization issues warning on pure-bred dogs | September 9, 2022 [Paywall]

Focus Taiwan: Ban on capture, sale of spawning crabs comes into force | August 1, 2022 [Paywall]

▸Taipei Times: Groups urge ban on sea urchin fishing off Penghu | July 2, 2022

Focus Taiwan: McDonald's urged to use eggs from cage-free hens | June 29, 2022

New Bloom: Demonstration takes place last week calling on McDonald’s to use cage-free eggs | May 29, 2022

Poultry World: Asia-wide protests against McDonald’s use of cage eggs | May 23, 2022

Taipei Times: Group protests McDonald’s use of caged chicken eggs | May 22, 2022

Focus Taiwan: Taiwan activists urge McDonald's to stop using battery farmed eggs | May 21, 2022 [Paywall]

Focus Taiwan: Can inhumane ways of raising fowl in Taiwan be changed? | April 29, 2022

Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (Netherlands): Animal welfare in the food industry | April 25, 2022

Taipei Times: Ban trade of Formosan macaques: groups | April 17, 2022

Taiwan News: Taiwan activists join campaign asking McDonald’s to drop cage eggs | March 14, 2022

Focus Taiwan: Taiwan removes animal testing option for blood pressure supplements | February 23, 2022 [Paywall]

New Bloom: March calls for constitutional animal rights on Sunday | February 21, 2022

Taipei Times: Advocates call for inclusion of animal rights in Constitution | February 21, 2022

LIVEKINDLY: Taiwan’s duck egg industry could be going cage-free | February 15, 2022

Poultry World: Taiwan bans cages for egg-laying ducks | February 15, 2022

British Hen Welfare Trust: From Britain to Taiwan: Helping hens wherever they need us | January 28, 2022


 



  2021  

 

Why the Future of Animal Welfare Lies Beyond the West
November 26, 2021


 

Laying Hen Welfare Guidelines Upgraded in Taiwan
July 5, 2021


 

Taiwan Wakes Up to Cruelty-Free Eating
January 1, 2021


Far Eastern Agriculture: Labelling of battery cage eggs to be mandatory in Taiwan | December 17, 2021

Dairy Global: Dairy cattle welfare guidelines in place in Taiwan | December 9, 2021

The Dairy Site: Taiwan publishes guidelines for dairy cattle welfare | November 30, 2021

Poultry World: Taiwan mandates conventional cage systems label on eggs | October 26, 2021

Unbound Project: Unbound Project presents: Yu-Min Chen | October 18, 2021

The Guardian: Decision to euthanise 154 cats found in smuggling operation sparks outrage | August 23, 2021

WATTPoultry: Taiwan adopts cage-free layer housing guidelines | July 1, 2021

Far Eastern Agriculture: Taiwan upgrades laying hen animal welfare guidelines | June 25, 2021

The Guardian: Spate of firecracker attacks on Taiwan's invasive iguanas sparks alarm | March 5, 2021

Taipei Times: Legislator urges rules on extermination of invasive animals after photos emerge | March 4, 2021

Poultry World: Taiwanese retailers’ egg supply chains benchmarked | February 2, 2021


 



  2020  

 

Taiwan's Polarising Pig Festival Draws Smaller Sacrifices
September 9, 2020

 


 

Taiwan Bans Great White, Megamouth & Basking Sharks Fishing
August 4, 2020

 


 

Animal Protection Group Calls for Burger King Taiwan to Stop Using Caged Eggs
November 1, 2020


Taipei TimesFishing ban enacted to protect three sharks species | November 12, 2020

Taiwan News: Taiwan bans fishing of great whites, megamouths, basking sharks | November 11, 2020

Taipei Times: Consumers urged to back animal welfare | October 15, 2020

Taipei Times: Group urges end to use of cages in duck farming | October 1, 2020

Taipei Times: EAST calls for action on rules against pig abuse | August 28, 2020

Taiwan News: Taiwan set to ban fishing of elusive megamouth sharks | July 15, 2020

IFLScience: Six incredibly rare sharks have been caught and killed in Taiwan in four days | July 1, 2020

We Animals Media: The rise of caged duck farming in Taiwan | May 7, 2020

Taipei Times: Enshrine animal rights in the Constitution: alliance | April 23, 2020

 



  2019  

 

Carrefour Taiwan Launches Asia’s First Private Label Cage-Free Eggs
December 3, 2019

 


 

Campaigners Demand End to Fish Tethering ‘Torture’ in Taiwan
August 19, 2019

 


 

Group Campaigning to Stop Din Tai Fung From Using Factory-Farmed Eggs
June 8, 2019


Inside Retail Asia: Carrefour Taiwan launches Asia’s first private-label cage-free eggs | December 4, 2019

Taipei Times: Animal rights activists protest Din Tai Fung’s use of battery cage eggs | November 24, 2019

Taipei Times: Group seeks the end of tethering at fish markets | October 5, 2019

We Animals Media: Prolonging death: The practice of fish tethering in Asia | August 31, 2019

Taipei Times: Animal rights advocates protest ‘divine pig’ ritual | August 21, 2019

Taiwan News: Carrefour’s push for cage-free eggs underlines corporate social conscience | May 14, 2019
 



  2014-18  

 

Carrefour Taiwan First Supermarket in Asia to Pledge Cage-Free Egg Policy
May 21, 2018

 


 

Council of Agriculture Urged to End Cramped Sow Stalls
May 12, 2017

 


 

Taiwan’s “Holy Pig” Festival
February 2, 2017


Taipei Times: Carrefour launches promotion zones for cage-free eggs | December 8, 2018

Taipei Times: Temple accused of turtle abuse | November 30, 2018

Taipei Times: Price wars prevent humane egg farming | May 16, 2018

Taiwan News: Animal protection group in Taiwan calls for an end to hellish narrow iron bar pig pens | May 10, 2017

Taipei Times: Stop killing rabbits for vaccine: group | April 28, 2016

The Straits Times: Injured hippo dies in Taiwan, owner faces jail term | December 29, 2014

Taipei Times: Groups call for boycott of local cetacean shows | September 13, 2014

Taipei Times: Beagles highlight testing abuses | January 15, 2014

 



  Earlier  

 

HSI Commends Taiwan for Historic Ban on Trade in Marine Mammal Products
January 8, 2013

 


 

Taiwan Joins Global Efforts to Ban Shark Finning
January 21, 2012

 


 

Taiwan Endangered Species Focus of New Awareness
February 1, 2011


Taipei Times: Groups slam aquarium for keeping whale shark | March 13, 2013

Taipei Times: Advocates call for end to ‘divine pigs’ | February 16, 2013

Taipei Times: Amendment set to protect marine mammals | January 9, 2013

Taipei Times: Former monk leads fight for animal rights | December 27, 2012

Taipei Times: Group urges end to animal testing | December 5, 2012

Taipei Times: More species of shark need to be protected: groups | November 22, 2012

Taipei Times: Animal abuse at slaughterhouses draws ire | June 27, 2012

Taipei Times: Activists urge end to ‘divine’ pigs | August 11, 2011

Taipei Times: Animal releases can be bad karma | October 1, 2011

Taipei Times: Legislators unveil animal rights plan | November 18, 2009

Pig Progress: Taiwan campaigners seek better pig handling | August 4, 2008

Taipei Times: Investigation reveals dog pedigree certificate fraud | May 17, 2007

Taipei Times: Activists urge fur boycott | February 3, 2005


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