Animal Welfare

Animal Health – November Updates

Europe’s animal health policy has evolved over decades to combat animal diseases...

26 November, 2025 / 0 Comments

Animal Health – October Updates

Europe’s animal health policy has evolved over decades to combat animal diseases...

22 October, 2025 / 0 Comments

Animal Health – September Updates

Europe’s animal health policy has evolved over decades to combat animal diseases...

07 October, 2025 / 0 Comments

Animal Health – July Updates

Europe’s animal health policy has evolved over decades to combat animal diseases...

18 July, 2025 / 0 Comments

European Parliament Votes on Welfare Rules for Cats and Dogs

MEPs voted on the EC’s proposal concerning the welfare and traceability of cats and dogs...

19 June, 2025 / 0 Comments

Animal Health – June Updates

Europe’s animal health policy has evolved over decades to combat animal diseases...

01 June, 2025 / 0 Comments

African Swine Fever (ASF) free status granted to Sweden

Sweden has been granted ASF-free status a year after the disease was first detected in a dead wild boar in Västmanland county...

06 October, 2024 / 0 Comments

Governments gather at the Bern Convention: Updates from FACE

Progress on the eradication of the Ruddy Duck and the case file around the development plans which threaten the natural areas of the Akamas peninsula in Cyprus...

08 December, 2023 / 0 Comments

Combatting ASF in Sweden: Hunter and Authority Collaboration Reduces Infection Zone

In a significant development, the Swedish government has announced a reduction of the infected African swine fever (ASF) zone...

01 December, 2023 / 0 Comments

Streamlining collaboration: A concise toolkit to stakeholder platforms

This concise guide outlines the technical essentials for creating and managing these platforms, inspired by the successful model of the EU LC platform which FACE has been a member since its establishment in 2014. ...

18 September, 2023 / 0 Comments

International Statement On Avian Influenza In Poultry And Wild Birds

Hunters as watchdogs for the health of wildlife: Hunters play a key role in monitoring the health status of our wildlife, in particular, for reporting potential cases of avian flu. ...

26 January, 2022 / 0 Comments

European Parliament rejects problematic motion on antimicrobials

FACE welcomes the European Parliament’s decision...

17 September, 2021 / 0 Comments

FACE Biodiversity Manifesto ‘Project of the Month’: Pulling spain’s red-legged patridge back from the brink

FACE is pleased to present the FACE Biodiversity Manifesto Project of the Month for March 2021...

26 May, 2021 / 0 Comments

The importance of hunters in protected areas management: Black Grouse conservation in Poland

FACE Biodiversity Manifesto "Project of the Month" for February 2021...

15 February, 2021 / 0 Comments

FACE Biodiversity Manifesto ‘Project of the Month’: Hunters of Limburg plant 24,000 hedges plants and trees for biodiversity

FACE is pleased to present the FACE Biodiversity Manifesto Project of the Month for January 2021...

31 January, 2021 / 0 Comments

FACE Biodiversity Manifesto ‘Project of the Month’: Bowhunting Coalition assists control of invasive Nutria in cities

FACE is pleased to present the FACE Biodiversity Manifesto Project of the Month for December 2020...

18 December, 2020 / 0 Comments

Biodiversity Manifesto Project of the Month – Wildlife protection program Feld & Wiese

FACE is pleased to present the FACE Biodiversity Manifesto Project of the Month for September 2020...

30 October, 2020 / 0 Comments

Biodiversity Manifesto Project of the Month – Bulgarian National Resettlement Programme

FACE is pleased to present the FACE Biodiversity Manifesto Project of the Month for September 2020...

29 September, 2020 / 0 Comments

First case of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Germany: confirmed

The German national reference laboratory has confirmed the first case of ASF in wild boar in Germany (Brandenburg) this morning...

10 September, 2020 / 0 Comments

FACE Biodiversity Manifesto Project of the Month – Cretan dog teams against poisoned bait – August 2020

FACE is pleased to present the FACE Biodiversity Manifesto Project of the Month for June 2020...

19 August, 2020 / 0 Comments

FACE Biodiversity Manifesto Project of the Month – Karlsruhe drone rescue project – June 2020

FACE is pleased to present the FACE Biodiversity Manifesto Project of the Month for June 2020 - Karlsruhe drone rescue project....

03 July, 2020 / 0 Comments

Hunters’ role in combatting African swine fever highlighted at high-level international conference in Berlin

International conference “The future of global pork production under the threat of African swine fever”...

17 January, 2020 / 0 Comments

African swine fever continues to cause major concerns within the hunting community

The hunting community is becoming increasingly concerned about new cases of African swine fever (ASF) in western Poland, not far from the German border, and in southern Bulgaria, very close to the Greek border. ...

21 November, 2019 / 0 Comments

Outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Slovakia

On 25 July, the Slovak State Veterinary Services announced the first outbreak of ASF in domestic pigs (4 cases so far) in Strážné, not far away from the border with Hungary. A few weeks later, on 12 August, the first case of ASF in wild boar was confirmed (see map below – blue arrow). The positive case was found close to Strážné near the area in Hungary where over 800 positive cases since 1 January were confirmed. Following these outbreaks,...

27 August, 2019 / 0 Comments

Twelfth meeting of experts on African Swine Fever in Europe (GF-TAD’s)

The future of European and African waterbird conservation was decided this week (4-8 December 2018) in Durban, South Africa. 78 parties attended the 7th Meeting of Parties (MoP) of the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) decided on several important developments for waterbird conservation and management...

12 March, 2019 / 0 Comments