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Campaigns

animalNEPAL is committed to the education of the Nepalese people in the areas of animal welfare-activism here and abroad. Below are just a few of the campaigns started by our group or done in collaboration with others. Please feel free to join the efforts of any or all these campaigns for the betterment of Nepal's less-fortunate.

Stop Monkey Business

This campaign opposes the export of Nepalese rhesus monkeys to foreign laboratories in the US. Animal Nepal collected some 4000 signatures from 21 countries to appeal to the Nepalese government to stop the establishment of American-sponsored breeding centres in the country. For more information go to www.stopmonkeybusiness.org

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Animal Welfare Legislation

Nepal is one of the few Asian countries without an effective and proper animal welfare legislation, without which long-term improvement to the animal welfare situation is more difficult. In 2004, the Department of Livestock Services with the help of sample legislation provided by the AN team, drafted a national animal welfare law, but due to political upheaval the legislation was not passed. In 2006 a new drafting committee that requested its input into a more complete draft invited Animal Nepal. AN is monitoring the situation and is actively lobbying for this Act to be sent to parliament without further delay.

Worship Without Cruelty

This campaign aims at raising awareness regarding cruelty to animals conducted in the name of culture. The campaign focuses on mass slaughter and extreme animal cruelty at Gadimai, Sasarimaiko and Khokana festivals and raises awareness regarding animal sacrifice in general.

Can you imagine a live goat being thrown in a pond and torn apart by young men? Can you picture 7,000 young buffaloes being rounded up and killed by a thousand drunk men carrying khukuri knives? A festival where 200,000 animals are killed to please a goddess? Public beheading of countless young buffaloes and goats carried out by government and army? |Read more...