Stray- and companion animals

Last month we were pleased to announce that the municipal authorities said licensed restaurants, street vendors and market traders near TongKou Markets would be prohibited from selling dog meat for a week in the run up to the YuLin Dog Meat Festival (15th-21st June).  This was a very encouraging step in the right direction from […]

ACTAsia is pleased to share with you that in the run up to the notorious Yulin Dog Meat Festival in China – where thousands of dogs and cats suffer violent deaths – local authorities have put in place a ban on the sale of dog meat leading up to the Festival. Local sources have informed […]

Please watch and share this film to help us make this festival a thing of the past.   [su_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DeYSH1dp_o”] Like you, ACTAsia has campaigned and protested against the Yulin Dog Meat Festival year after year. While we’ve helped save some dogs, we know they were simply replaced on the menu with other less fortunate […]

It is estimated that around two million dogs and cats are being slaughtered in China for their fur, every year. This is a ‘cheap source’ of fur because the animals are usually strays, stolen pets or used for food. Subsequently, the fur is exported under false labelling to Western countries (where there is a ban […]

On the 21st of June, many residents of YuLin will ‘celebrate’ their annual summer stolstice by eating dog meat. We have held a first ever press conference in Yulin to highlight the animal cruelty involved in this practice. Tens of thousands of dogs are suffering from the cruel capture, long distance transport and gruesome slaughtering […]

In Harbin City, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, a new dog keeping management regulation was passed on 20 November 2011 and took effect from 1 April 2012. The regulation states that every dog has to be removed from the city that: is over 50cm in height and 70cm in length, is on the list of […]

Dog culling as a response to human rabies incidences is still common practice throughout China. 56 Chinese cities had conducted large scale dog culling operations at least once in the last five years.

On the 16th of April 2011, persistent animal activists saved the lives of 520 dogs that were destined for the dinner plate. An animal lover stopped a truck packed with dogs, without food or water, that was heading from Beijing to a slaughterhouse in the northeast of China.He posted a message via his mobile phone […]

A few months ago, we called upon the international public to support the campaign by Taiwanese animal protection group EAST. They had investigated government pounds throughout Taiwan and discovered the {cms_selflink page=’dogs-taiwan’ text=’gruesome conditions ‘}for dogs and cats. Thanks to the many people who have acted upon this call, there is some great news about […]

A nationwide underground chain exists to supply a regional habit of eating dogs and cats, from stealing the animals and transporting them to killing and eating them. Media reports state: ‘As the weather gets colder, dogs in villages are stolen due to the increased dog meat consumption in Guangdong Province.’ This chain has not been […]