Animal Rights

Considering World Fashion Day celebrated on August 21, India's top 32 fashion designers have claimed that they will eliminate the use of leather in their products and in other materials. The designers featuring the initiative are Gaurav Gupta, Masaba Gupta, and others. The move comes after they were asked to do so by the PETA India and Lakme Fashion Week with an aim to prevent environmental and ethical treatment of animals.

South Africa habitats about 20,000 white Rhinos accounting for 90% of the world's Rhino population. The animal is poached for horn trading and the relaxation of the lockdown restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic last year was not good news for Rhinos living in South Africa. The cases of illegal poaching rose sharply. At least 249 Rhinos were killed until June 2021, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment said.

Citing animal rights violations, the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has scrapped the registration of five Indian circuses - Ahmedabad's Great Golden, Kanpur's Asiad and Rayman, Delhi's Apollo and Kolkata's Nataraj. The board responding to Delhi High Court’s recommendation have issued show-cause notices under various animal protection acts. Additionally, it asked the Animal Husbandry Ministry to review the implementation of Performing… read-more