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Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation team are on the fourth day of their inspection at the Bulgarian/Turkish border. Today  we checked 4 EU livestock trucks that arrived on the Turkish side. Two of the trucks were from the company Elspeda and had young bulls from Estonia on board, destined for Ankara.. This is a journey of 3400km, mostly on rough roads! … [Read more...] about Inspection of EU livestock trucks at Turkish border – day 4

Today was our third day checking on animal trucks coming from the EU into Turkey. A Lithuanian truck with young bulls, on a journey of at least 2300 km, arrived on the Turkish side of the border in the morning. The bedding was very filthy. The truck made a short stop at the Veterinarian Station where 5% of the animals were to have their blood drawn to be tested for … [Read more...] about Inspection of EU livestock trucks at the Turkish border- Day 3

Today two livestock trucks from the Hungarian company Agrosped, organized by Schalk Nutztiere (Austria) arrived on the Turkish side of the border. On board are young Austrian bulls. According to the transport papers, the animals have been on board for over 40 hours already, no resting station was planned or used. Despite this violation, the stamps from the Austrian … [Read more...] about Inspection of EU livestock trucks at Turkish border – day 2

Today a team from Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation inspected EU livestock trucks heading into Turkey. We observed four consigments of pregnant breeding cattle, organized by Klompjan Livestock Trading (3 of which were being transported by Keus en Mollink that Klompjan contracted out, and one by Klompjan transport itself). They all stopped at the Turkish … [Read more...] about Inspection of EU animal trucks at Turkish border- Day 1

Today, Eyes on Animals, Animal Welfare Foundation and Compassion in World Farming held a meeting with the (UECBV) European Livestock and Meat Trading Union to discuss what measures their Union could take to decrease the suffering of animals on board EU trucks heading to the border of Turkey. A Dutch transporter who regularly transports animals from Austria and Hungary to … [Read more...] about Further efforts to decrease suffering at Turkish border: Meeting with UECBV

Eyes on Animals has offered 4 highway-police trainings in Belgium so far, and will focus part of 2012 on expanding this service. Getting the highway police involved is as an extremely effective way of assuring that animals can benefit from the laws set out to protect them during transport.     In the first week of January, Eyes on Animals distributed over 80 of … [Read more...] about Expanding our police trainings in Belgium

A freelancer of Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation inspected animals crossing through from EU to Turkey today. Sadly, the animal-suffering horrors appear to continue here. Today a truck from the Bulgarian company "Alex" transported sheep over the border that were too advanced in their gestation. While being unloaded at the “Vet Station” on the Turkish side of … [Read more...] about Another EU truck in violation approved for export to Turkey

Today we held a Press Conference in Brussels, along with the Animal Welfare Foundation and Compassion in World Farming, about the horrible animal suffering we have documented together at the Turkish border. We talked about the fact that many European livestock trucks in violation are accepted at this border, and once they arrive on the Turkish side, they often have to … [Read more...] about EonA, AWF and CIWF hold a Press Conference about welfare problems at Turkish border

Eyes on Animals, Animal Welfare Foundation and Compassion in World Farming requested a meeting with the European Commission to further discuss what action was needed to put an end to the suffering of animals on board EU trucks heading into Turkey. We were invited to come today.Present were 10 officials from the Commission, Sanco legal affairs, and the Food and Veterinarian … [Read more...] about Meeting with the EU commission and FVO

A local freelancer of Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation inspected a cattle truck from the Croatian transport company "Krijan" in Kapikule, at the Turkish side of the Bulgarian/Turkish border. On board were Hungarian bulls destined for slaughter in Ankara, another 8-hour drive away. One of the bulls on board was lying down with a … [Read more...] about Bull with broken leg transported through Bulgaria/Turkey border