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 Vice-President of the European Parliament’s animal welfare committee, Caroline has achieved a considerable amount in influencing proposals from the European Commission, and with your support, could do more.
In 2006, her work was recognised by the RSPCA, of which she is a Vice-President . The Michael Kay Award for outstanding contribution to European animal welfare was presented to Caroline by the RSPCA Director General Jackie Ballard, who said: “Caroline has made defending animal rights and improving animal welfare central as 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 law governing animal experiments is 20 years old so is undergoing a review, and MEPs have the opportunity to to replace animal experiments with more ethical and scientifically reliable non-animal research techniques. You can join Caroline and thousands of others in signing a petition to the Parliament launched by the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research before May 6th 2008. Reaching out across Europe in 11 languages, the petition is supported by animal groups across the continent.
Sign the petition now
Below you can read copies of correspondence 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 Shoreham 2004
Press Releases
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
Lucas Calls On Yushchenko To Act On Footage Of Widespread Cruelty To Stray Dogs In Ukraine
- 6.3.2006
MEP Calls For EU To Ban Seal Fur Imports, As Canadian Seal Hunt Kills Thousands
- 2.3.2006
MEP: Inhumane Bird Slaughter Heightens ‘Flu Risk’
- 24.1.2006
Keep Animal Tests ‘Out Of Reach’, MEPs Told
- 24.9.2005
EU Powerless To Halt ‘Dog Spinning’ In Bulgaria
- 29.7.2005
MEPs Back Call To End To Cattle Cruelty
- 12.7.2005
EU Battery Chicken Welfare Proposals Are Inadequate, Says Green MEP
- 24.6.2005
Lucas Speaks At European Captive Animal Welfare Conference
- 1.6.2005
MEPs Demand End To Subsidised Cattle Cruelty
- 12.4.2005
Letters and Replies
Correspondence about Live Exports
- 4.6.2008
Correspondence about the Fur and Ivory Trade
- 2.4.2008
Correspondence about the Protection of Marine Life
- 20.3.2008
Correspondence about the Welfare of Seals
- 13.3.2008
Correspondence about Captive Animals
- 21.1.2008
Correspondence about Avian Flu
- 18.4.2007
Correspondence about Bird Welfare
- 21.3.2007
Correspondence about the Welfare of Companion Animals
- 22.6.2006
Correspondence about the Cat and Dog Fur Trade
- 24.5.2006
Correspondence about Badgers
- 22.1.2006
Correspondence about Animal Testing
- 22.1.2006
Correspondence about the Welfare of Egg Laying Hens
- 18.12.2005
Correspondence about Promoting Animal Welfare
- 22.6.2005
Correspondence about the Iberian Lynx
- 22.6.2005
Correspondence about the Welfare of Broiler Chickens
- 18.6.2005
In the Parliament
Written Questions - Animal Diseases
- 13.5.2008
Written Questions - Poultry
- 12.2.2008
Opinion - Cat and Dog Fur Trade
- 25.2.2007
Written Questions - Animal Testing
- 22.2.2007
Written Declaration - Seal Product Ban
- 30.9.2006
Written Declaration - Stray Animals
- 30.7.2006
Written Questions - Live Exports and Animal Transportation
- 22.5.2006
Written Questions - Captive Animals
- 22.1.2006
Written Questions - Bird Protection
- 22.1.2006
Written Declaration - Live Exports
- 30.7.2005
Written Questions - Iberian Lynx
- 22.12.2003
Reports
Making Tracks 5
- 16.11.2007
Avian Flu - Time To Shut The Intensive Poultry Flu Factories?
- 5.7.2006
Making Tracks 4
- 20.4.2006
Making Tracks 3
- 16.2.2004
Making Tracks 2
- 28.7.2003
Articles
Cut the bullfighting - New Statesman - 06 June 2008
- 6.6.2008
Comment is free: Guardian - Blood on the ice
- 28.3.2008
Speeches
Plenary - Canadian Seal Cull
- 9.4.2008
Plenary - Avian Flu Pandemic
- 25.10.2005
Plenary - Protection of Animals
- 30.3.2004
Plenary - Problems with Salmon
- 10.2.2004
Plenary - Control of Foot and Mouth Disease
- 14.5.2003
