- Student leader champions use of alternatives to lab animals
- Naivasha Communities: Cheap Valentine Roses will not Kill our Freshwater Lake
- Africa Animal Welfare Workshop
- Seminar on the alternatives to the use of Animals in Educational Experiments and Dissections, 23rd– 24th September 2009, Nairobi Kenya
- Swine Flu: Is the pig guilty?
- Humane Education: Technology now Saving Lab Animals
- Africa to Declare Animals are Sentient Beings
- Campaigners Demand End To Bare Hand Bull Killing In South Africa
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ANAW Highlights
Naivasha Communities: Cheap Valentine Roses will not Kill our Freshwater Lake
Lake Naivasha: A beautiful freshwater lake, fringed by thick papyrus. Afternoon winds and storms can cause the Lake to become suddenly rough and produce high waves. For this reason, the local Maasai people christened the lake Nai’posha meaning ”rough water”, which the British later misspelt as Naivasha. Much of the lake is surrounded by forests [...]
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ANAW Highlights
For years, pigs have been ridiculed, degraded and demonized by human beings. In the Middle East and other Arabian countries, ...
There is really no good reason why animals should be killed for dissections and used in experiments for education and ...
Like-minded animal welfare organizations and individuals convened in Nairobi in September 21st -22nd 2009 during which they declared to pursue ...
A major Africa animal welfare event is scheduled for this September in Kenya’s Capital City -Nairobi. The first of ...
In 2008 ANAW launched a three year pilot project in Nairobi, Kenya seeking to control dog population through Spay/Neuter. The ...
Illegal poaching of many endangered animals is still reality in Africa despite efforts by conservationists and African countries' governments. ...
Animal Welfare
Passive, subservient learning is characteristic of many students in many institutions of higher learning in Kenya. Questioning lecturers on content and challenging the existing modes of teaching is considered rude and disrespectful. Many students cower at a sharp glance or a strict word from a professor. Not so for Dennis Makau, a third year student [...]
Humane Education
Lake Naivasha: A beautiful freshwater lake, fringed by thick papyrus. Afternoon winds and storms can cause the Lake to become suddenly rough and produce high waves. For this reason, the local Maasai people christened the lake Nai’posha meaning ”rough water”, which the British later misspelt as Naivasha. Much of the lake is surrounded by forests [...]
Policy & Legislation
The Kenyan government has proposed changes in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) trade rules ahead of the forthcoming Conference of Parties meeting in March 2011 in Qatar.
Supported by several other African governments the Kenyan government hope to block any attempts by other countries to gain CITES [...]
Rescue & Emergency Response
In 2008 ANAW launched a three year pilot project in Nairobi, Kenya seeking to control dog population through Spay/Neuter. The first phase was 24th Sept-1st October 2008; the second phase will run from 21st June-16th July 2009.
The program was borne out of a realization that uncontrolled stray dog population is a threat to the human [...]
