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Today our team from Eyes on Animals, Animal Welfare Foundation (DE) and Welfarm Foundation (HU) continued to visit Hungarian assembly stations officially approved to dispatch animals for export to Turkey. We visited one of the largest stations today, owned by Agrarcoop. Our reason for chosing this station is because we have observed many Agrarcoop trucks at the Turkish … [Read more...] about Unannounced visit of stations in Hungary that collect animals for export to Turkey

Today teams of Eyes on Animals, Animal Welfare Foundation(DE) and Welfarm Foundation (HU) joined forces and made unannounced visits to three EU-certified assembly stations in Hungary. One improvement we managed to achieve in our efforts to decrease the suffering of Hungarian animals during long/distance transport to Turkey, is that transporters may only now load animals at … [Read more...] about Unannounced visit of stations in Hungary that collect animals for export to Turkey

On November 2010, Eyes on Animals inspected the annual Horse Market in Hedel for the first time and found a series of practices which were unacceptable. After much consultation, promises were made to make this market less stressful for the horses and ponies.  In early November 2011 the annual market was held again, and we were present. The situation was much better … [Read more...] about Evaluation meeting about Hedel horse market