Wildlife Conservation Sweden Project #26550

Help raise awareness about animal rights in Sweden

by Djurens Ratt

Project Report | Jan 19, 2018
Support for pigs and plans for summer tour 2018!

By Iva Urbanek | Campaign coach, Djurens Ratt summer tour

Photo: Katarina Horlin, Tidningen Djurskyddet

Update from Djurens Ratts summer tour!

On January 17 Djurens Ratt visited the Swedish Minister of Agriculture, Sven-Eric Bucht, along with three other animal welfare organizations. The meeting was on account of the critized changes in animal welfare prescriptions by the Swedish Board of Agriculture. The meeting started with handing over 127 702 signatures for improved animal welfare for pigs.

The majority of the collected names came from Djurens Ratts campaigns for pigs, and among them 9 447 signatures were collected during the summer tour 2017!

Handing over more than 100 000 signatures is a great manifestation and shows strong engagement for improved animal welfare for pigs. Djurens Ratts work with the petition during the summer tour now shows concrete results by influencing politicians and this accomplishment is an important step for the animals. The summer tour is a part of the campaign work of Djurens Ratt and we will continue doing important activities for animal rights with the summer tour of 2018.

With that said, we leave 2017 behind and shift our focus to the upcoming summer tour, which is the 13^th summer tour for Djurens Ratt. We have a lot of work ahead and there is much to be done before the first tour stop in June. Currently we are planning for campaign strategies and which places to visit this summer. Each summer we visit more than 70 places and these include different festivals, markets and fairs. During these tour stops we work with a specific campaign that is unique every year and that we believe will be efficient in our work for animal rights.

Before ending this report we want to take the opportunity and thank all of you who have donated to our project at Global Giving. With your help we will have the possibility to make this year’s summer tour an even bigger project. With more resources we will go to more places, print more materials and engage more people to take stand for animal rights.

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Oct 25, 2017
Summer tour of 2017 - and what's in store for 2018

By Iva Urbanek | Campaign coach, Djurens Ratt summer tour

The summer tour, probably the largest non-profit information campaign in Sweden, has now reached the finish line for this year. After this summer we are enthusiastic to share results and steps we have taken to raise awareness about animal rights around Sweden, as well as speak about the plans ahead for our tour!

Summer of 2017

In total we have been on tour for 136 days and completed 74 unique tour stops around the country. The summer tour has visisted a lot of places, from up north to the southernmost parts in Sweden. Our organization has been seen at the largest festivals in Sweden as well as on small markets and fairs.

Over 13000 units of material has been handed out this summer. We hand out magazines, vegan recipes, information about the situation for animals as well as leaflets about our organization. This large information campaign enables thousands of people to take part of the message that animals have the right to live their lives free from oppression, pain and exploitation. The summer tour is a reason why a lot of people have read and learned about animal’s situation and has hopefully shaped their opinion in the area of animal rights.

To succeed with handing out these large amounts of material, talking with thousands of people and on the whole completing this project we have had around a hundred volunteers joining the summer tour and engaging in one or more tour stops.

This summer has focused on the inadequate situation for all pigs who suffer in the food industry. We have collected over 8000 signatures in our petition for the pigs. The petition, which has been carried out as a part of a campaign with the organisation Eurogroup for Animals , requires that all pigs should have outdoor access, to end surgical castration of male piglets and to end cutting tails, grounding or cutting teeth of pigs in all EU. The message is clear, people in Sweden express their support in this question and want to see changes regarding the pigs welfare. The result of the petition will be forwared to the Swedish government as well as Eurogroup for Animals.

In conclusion, we are happy that the summer tour 2017 has been successful. This year’s edition is over and has been an important part of our work for animal rights. Now we are aiming for next year and the summer tour 2018.

Summer of 2018 - the tour continues!

2018 is election year in Sweden which is an important opportunity for Djurens Rätt and the summer tour to influence politicians and voters to take stand for animal rights. Decisive changes for animals are made by political influence and changing legislation. Exactly how the campaign will be carried out next summer is now being planned, with more information to follow.

More donations to our project will mean that we can print more information material, visit more places on the tour, talk with more people and thereby raise more awareness about animal rights. In the long run this results in steps towards a society where animals live their lives free from oppression, pain and exploitation.

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Jul 31, 2017
Spreading the word all across Sweden

By Moa Ranum | Education Coordinator

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