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A recent WSPA grant is helping the Gambian Horse and Donkey Trust provide college-level training to combat the lack of local animal welfare knowledge and education that results in suffering for hardworking equines.
Member society GAIA and other animal welfare groups scored a success for animals in Belgium, successfully pressuring the Flemish government to ban the shooting of stray cats.
Member society the Department of the Protection of Animal Rights were joint organisers of a seminar discussing the introduction of humane education to Armenian universites, held in April 2008.
A ban has been placed on the hunting of baby Greenland seals in 2008 following a wave of protests from celebrities and animal protectionists, including Russian member society VITA.
The Ukrainian capital Kiev played host to the first International Rights Film Festival in October 2007, which was launched by CETA, the Ukrainian Centre for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
