Defending animal rights and improving animal welfare are central to Caroline Lucas’s work as an MEP. There are many activities within the EU that affect animal rights, so when Caroline was first elected in 1999, she saw it as an opportunity to make changes for the better. As the newly appointed President of the European Parliament’s animal welfare committee, Caroline is in an excellent position to influence key proposals from the European Commission. With your support, she could do more.
In 2006, her work was recognised by the RSPCA, of which she is a Vice-President . She received the Michael Kay Award for outstanding contribution to European animal welfare from the RSPCA Director General Jackie Ballard, who said: “Caroline has made defending animal rights and improving animal welfare central to her work as an MEP, ensuring that animal protection issues are high on the agenda.” Read more…
Since 2007, Caroline and animal protection groups across Europe have been working on a huge campaign for the EU to replace ‘cruel, unnecessary and misleading’ animal experiments. The current law governing animal experiments is 20 years old and is now undergoing a review, which means that MEPs have a crucial opportunity to replace animal experiments with more ethical and scientifically reliable non-animal research techniques. Caroline and thousands of others signed a petition to the Parliament launched by the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research in 2008. It reached out across Europe in 11 languages and was supported by animal groups across the continent.
Below you can read copies of correspondence and press releases about animal protection, download Caroline’s occasional animal welfare newsletter, Making Tracks, and learn more about her work to end animal cruelty across Europe.
Image: Caroline protesting about live exports in Dover 2004
Press Releases
Oppose Ivory Sale To Save Elephants, Say Green Euro-MP
- 25.1.2010
Lucas Warns Of Last Chance To Save EU Animal Experiments Agreement
- 18.12.2009
Green Euro-MP Welcomes ‘Unique’ Cyber-March On Animal Testing
- 21.10.2009
Leading Green Launches New Euro Campaign To Replace Animal Testing
- 7.10.2009
South East Green Euro-MP To Head Up Influential Animal Welfare Group
- 23.9.2009
South East MEP Supports 1.5 Million-Strong Petition To Tackle Animal Testing
- 2.7.2009
Warning From Green Euro-MP As EU Governments Keep Door Open For Cloned Animal Meat
- 22.6.2009
Green Euro-MP Scoops ‘Ethical Politician Of The Year’ Award
- 3.6.2009
Kent’s Green Euro-MP Calls For End To Captive Animal ‘Entertainment’ As Circus Comes To Tonbridge
- 1.6.2009
Green Euro-MP Welcomes ‘Groundbreaking’ EU Parliament Vote For Ban On Seal Trade
- 5.5.2009
Green Euro-MP Welcomes First Step Towards Better Protection Of Animals In Experiments
- 5.11.2008
South East Euro-MP Welcomes EU Victory For Kent Animal Campaigners
- 30.10.2008
Euro-Commission Decision ‘Will Block Better Animal Protection Standards’, Warns Green MEP
- 17.9.2008
Green MEPs Showcase Their Record on Protecting the Rights Of Humans and Animals - online PDF leaflets
- 3.9.2008
Green Euro-MP Condemns China Vote On Illegal Ivory Trade
- 15.7.2008
Green MEP Supports Calls For EU Ban On Seal Products At Brussels Animal Welfare Protest
- 4.7.2008
Green Euro-MP And RSPCA Vice-President To Urge For Tighter Laws To Safeguard Animal Welfare
- 25.6.2008
Green Euro-MP: Nothing ’Great’ About British Animal Circus On Tour In The South East
- 11.6.2008
Green MEP To Chair Anti-Bullfighting Seminar In Euro-Parliament
- 3.6.2008
Green MEP To Host Expert Briefing On Animal Testing With Leading Primatologist Dr Jane Goodall DBE
- 27.5.2008
Green MEP & RSPCA Vice President Attacks ‘Shameful’ Figures On Abandoned Pets
- 28.4.2008
New Evidence Of Cruel Practices Brings Fresh Calls From Green MEP For Commission To Ban Seal Products
- 23.4.2008
Euro-MP Slams Canadian Department For ‘Hiding’ Annual Seal Cull From Press And NGOs
- 27.3.2008
Green MEP Condemns Canadian Seal Hunt On Eve Of Annual Slaughter
- 26.3.2008
Green Euro-MP Urges Russian Authorities To Come Clean Over Seal Pup Slaughter
- 5.3.2008
Sussex Cull ‘Counterproductive And Cruel’ - Culling Badgers May Increase Spread Of Bovine TB, Warns Lucas
- 6.11.2007
Lucas Welcomes MEPs’ First Step Towards Ending Primate Experiments
- 7.9.2007
Green MEP Calls For EU-Wide Primate Test Ban
- 26.4.2007
MEPs Vote To Ban Sale Of Cat And Dog Fur In EU
- 12.4.2007
MEP Demands EU Stops Stalling On Seal Fur Ban
- 14.3.2007
EU Delay On Seal Fur Ban Will Mean 200,000 Deaths, Says MEP
- 19.2.2007
Green MEP Lucas Demands End To ‘Cruel And Unnecessary’ Animal Experiments
- 2.2.2007
MEP Appeals For EU Cash To Save Zoo Animals
- 19.1.2007
Greens Back Commission Call For Spain To Halt Motorway Plan, As Spain Faces Court Action To Protect Iberian Lynx
- 20.10.2006
Euro-MP Celebrates After Ukraine Announces End To Barbaric Annual Stray Dog Slaughter
- 20.10.2006
Euro-MP Demands Monkey Vivisection Ban After Vietnam Investigation
- 18.10.2006
Greens Call Time On Barbaric Shark Slaughter As MEPs Back Amendment To Combat ‘Finning’
- 28.9.2006
Green Plan To Ban EU Seal Fur Imports Wins Majority Support From MEPs
- 6.9.2006
RSPCA Recognises Work Of Green Party Euro-MP
- 21.7.2006
RSPCA Presents Lucas With ‘Michael Kay’ Award For Animal Welfare Work
- 27.6.2006
EU To Deny Funds To Oxford Animal Test Lab
- 19.6.2006
Letters and Replies
Correspondence about Animal Protection
- 9.2.2010
Correspondence about the Welfare of Companion Animals
- 9.2.2010
Correspondence about the Protection of Marine Life
- 14.12.2009
Correspondence about Live Exports
- 8.12.2009
Correspondence about Captive Animals
- 28.10.2009
Correspondence about Bird Welfare
- 14.9.2009
Correspondence about the Welfare of Egg Laying Hens
- 8.6.2009
Correspondence about the Welfare of Seals
- 19.3.2009
Correspondence about Pig Welfare
- 17.12.2008
Correspondence about the Fur and Ivory Trade
- 2.4.2008
Correspondence about Avian Flu
- 18.4.2007
In the Parliament
Written Questions - Animal Testing
- 27.11.2009
Written Questions - Pigs
- 27.11.2009
Written Questions - Live Exports and Animal Transportation
- 27.10.2009
Written Questions - Animal Welfare And Trade
- 27.10.2009
Written Declaration - Animal Testing
- 8.10.2009
Written Questions - Bird Protection
- 25.9.2009
Written Questions - Poultry
- 7.1.2009
Written Questions - Animal Diseases
- 9.7.2008
Opinion - Cat and Dog Fur Trade
- 25.2.2007
Written Declaration - Seal Product Ban
- 30.9.2006
Written Declaration - Stray Animals
- 30.7.2006
Reports
Making Tracks - Spring 2009
- 7.4.2009
Making Tracks 5
- 16.11.2007
Avian Flu - Time To Shut The Intensive Poultry Flu Factories?
- 5.7.2006
Articles
Cut the bullfighting - New Statesman - 06 June 2008
- 6.6.2008
Comment is free: Guardian - Blood on the ice
- 28.3.2008
Speeches
World Day for Laboratory Animals
- 25.4.2009
Plenary - Canadian Seal Cull
- 9.4.2008
