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• 2022 02 25 TIR Library Newsletter: 2022 Book Recommendation

  ...dominate the way we see the world. Images of polar bears on floating ice floes, detached from the permanent pack ice, are disturbing and thought-provoking. Such images make global warming more visible and give us an idea of its profound consequences. The book featured in the current newsletter, "Slime - How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us," addresses not only the history and un... ... wisely, they could help us out of the climate crisis. Ruth Kassinger describes how vital algae are, as well as how, if used and cultivated wisely, they could help us humans out of the climate crisis....

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• 2025 12 18 TIR Library Newsletter: Our Book Recommendation

  ..., its production is highly problematic for other animals and the environment. As Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins point out in Salmon Wars, around 70% of the salmon consumed worldwide comes from aquaculture. Millions of animals live in cramped conditions in huge marine facilities. Pathogens and ... ...nisations therefore see cell-cultured ‘lab fish’ as a potentially animal-friendly and more environmentally friendly solution. The start-up ‘Wildtype’, for example, is developing sushi salmon based on cell cultures. Plant-based alternatives such as carrot ‘Lax’ also offer a completely animal-free...

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• Legacy and Heritage

  ...at your assets will go to people or institutions that have always been of importance to you. Thus, you allow the things that have been dear to you during your lifetime to live on after your passing. Our brochure with information on wills  (in German) serves as a guide for the regulation of your estate. If required, we are gladly at your service for a personal consultation. Please contact us here in order to order the brochure in print or to arrange a meeting with us.TIR is exempt from inheritance and gift taxes, which means that, if you decide to include TIR in your will, the total value of yo...

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• 2024 12 16 TIR calls for a ban on animal transports to high-risk animal welfare countries

  ... suffer massively  (see TIR-news report of 23 February 2024). The problem is widespread worldwide. But Europe in particular wants to play a pioneering role in animal welfare. Nevertheless, every year billions of live animals are transported by road, sea, rail or air within, into or out of the EU for... ...alled farm animals: away from viewing animals as commodities and towards a perspective that places their dignity and welfare at the centre. Further information: ZDF-documentation (in German) "Tiertransporte: Gefangen zwischen Grenzen" (Caution: disturbing images)Letter from TIR dated 27 November 20...

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• 2022 02 08 Update on TIR campaign to ban the import of hunting trophies

  ...nd Flora (CITES) is highly problematic from both a species protection and an animal welfare perspective. Nevertheless, it is offered in many places as an attraction for hunting tourists. Swiss people too travel to distant countries to engage in trophy hunting, shoot exotic animals and then import th... ...etter, which should help us get our voice heard by the Council of States.Our latest flyer contains the most important facts and problems related to trophy hunting. Among other things, it refutes the argument often put forward by proponents of the sport that the income from trophy hunting is used...

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• 2016 05 31 Animal welfare organizations demand a Swiss ban on the import and transit of hunting trophies

  ...commercial trade in highly endangered species, exceptions can be made for trophy hunting  (see the TIR news report (in German) from March 3, 2016).It is often argued that hunting tourism contributes to the preservation of biodiversity and the alleviation of poverty.  However, this argumentation is highly questionable, as is shown in the report by the economist network Economists at Large. For the most part, hunting does not generate income for the local population but solely benefits the companies, mostly from abroad, that organize the hunts. Hunting is also especially prone to corruption and ...

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• 2023 04 18 TIR Library Newsletter: Our Book Recommendation 2023/01

  ...me and is generally regarded as the birth of modern animal protection. Today's reading recommendation revolves around the historically important question of how the animal protection and animal rights movement got started in the German-speaking world. In his extensive research, author Wolfram Schlenker shows how the population in the 19th century began to reflect more critically and question the human-animal relationship, started to react more strongly against abuses and animal cruelty and thus set the animal protection movement in motion.When the first German animal protection initiative addr...

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• TIR Animal Law Award

  ...regon/USA). CALS is regarded as the world's epicenter for the training of animal welfare lawyers. It offers students and practitioners almost unlimited opportunities to study and acquire further training in animal law and is thus a pioneer whose importance reaches far beyond the USA.CALS can be considered an absolute forerunner and international example for the education in animal welfare law. Following the laudatory speech by Dr. Gieri Bolliger, Executive Director of TIR, Professor Pamela D. Frasch, Founder and Managing Director of CALS, and Professor Kathy Hessler received the first TIR Anim...

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• 2016 08 10 TIR files complaint against Circus Royal for animal dignity violation

  ...whip and a stick to make the lions appear to show aggression and then he switches to patting and scratching the animals, thereby degrading them to cuddly toys with no will of their own.  The questionable act implies that humans are the ruling species that can subjugate and dominate everything as they see fit. Instead of raising the public's awareness for the needs and the protection of animals, ... ...IR filed a detailed criminal complaint with the responsible prosecution office in the canton of St. Gallen and requested an immediate end to the lion act. Last year, TIR had already written and expres...

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• 2024 05 17 Fire safety measures could save lives - a chronology of efforts to protect farm animals from TIR’s perspective

  ...mals is, however, a highly complex matter. It must therefore be tackled at various levels: In the case of fire protection, a distinction is made between structural, technical and organisational measures, all of which must urgently be included in the construction of animal stables.In 2020/2021, TIR, ... ...TA has also filed a criminal complaint in the Gossau fire case to ensure that compliance with the guarantor duty of the person in charge of the farm is also checked. Based on the existing legal basis, a certain duty of prevention is already derived from the animal keepers’ responsibility for the ani...

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