by CAAWOAdmin | Jul 18, 2024 | Awareness, Education, News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa – July 18, 2024 – Today, on International Mandela Day, the Coalition of African Animal Welfare Organisations (CAAWO) is spreading the message of kindness and compassion through a special animal story time...
by CAAWOAdmin | Jul 2, 2024 | Awareness, Education, News
We are excited to welcome the newly appointed ministers, John Steenhuizen and Dion George, to their respective ministries in the South African government. With John Steenhuizen as the Minister of Agriculture and Dion George as the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and...
by CAAWOAdmin | Sep 17, 2022 | Awareness, Education
What is aquaculture and why should we care? CAAWO digs deeper into the topic to help you understand the importance of aquaculture. You might have heard the term aquaculture being dropped in conversations, or perhaps you’ve read about it on social media. But what is...
by CAAWOAdmin | Jun 27, 2022 | Awareness, Education
On 10 May 2019, the article “Malnourished and abused lions in South Africa: bred for tourists and hunters” appeared in Il Messagero, an Italian newspaper. The country’s lions have, in fact, made global headlines and many international welfare experts are calling for...
by CAAWOAdmin | May 1, 2022 | Awareness, Education
We are all intimately familiar with the Covid-19 pandemic by now but there is another pandemic running rampant worldwide: the single-use plastic pandemic. We see the causes of this pandemic daily, in the straws in restaurant cups, in the packaging that contains our...
by CAAWOAdmin | Mar 27, 2022 | Awareness, Education
One of the main challenges with animal wellbeing is that they are seen as “less than.” Less sentient, less capable, less worthy of a safe, playful life lived to its full term. World Animal Day aims to raise animals’ standing thereby increasing the level of animal...