IVANA SURJAN - CROATIA
Ambassador to World Animal Day
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Bolivia | Bulgaria | Cameroon | Canada | China - Beijing | China -Guangzhou |
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Ethiopia | Finland | France | Gambia | Germany | Ghana | Guatemala |
Honduras | India-Tamil Nadu | India-Uttar Pradesh | Indonesia | Iran |
Ireland | Italy | Ivory Coast | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kenya | Korea |
Korea (South) | Kurdistan | Kuwait | Lebanon | Malaysia | Mauritius |
Mexico | Morocco | Nepal | Netherlands | New Zealand | New Zealand |
Nigeria | Pakistan | Panama | Peru | Philippines | Romania | Serbia |
Singapore | South Africa | Sri Lanka | Syria | Sudan | Taiwan |
Taiwan | Tanzania-Mainland | Tanzania-Islands of Zanzibar | UK | USA |
Venezuela |
 
 
MS IVANA SURJAN, supported by the team at ANIMAL FRIENDS CROATIA
 
 
         
   
EMAIL:
 
prijatelji-zivotinja@inet.hr
 
           
   
WEBSITE:
   
           
   
ADDRESS:
 
Animal Friends Croatia
Gajeva 47
10000 Zagreb
CROATIA




 
 
 
 
AIMS / MISSION STATEMENT
 
 

The aim of Animal Friends Croatia (AFC) is to put an end to all forms of abuse and exploitation of animals. In order to realise our goal, AFC will be active in the following areas:

  • Animal breeding and exploitation for: the nutritional needs of people or other animals; the fur industry; leather, wool, and silk; the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry; any kind of experiments, tests and research.
  • Animal breeding and cruelty involved in hunting and fishing.
  • Animal breeding and exploitation in the entertainment industry (circus, zoo, aquarium, hippodromes, dog races, etc).
  • Exploitation and abuse of so called 'pets' (dogs, cats, hamsters, rabbits, parrots and other birds, fishes, turtles etc).
  • Protection of: wild animals and the preservation of their natural habitat; abandoned animals and the provision of shelters or other places where help and protection will be provided; animals that are kept for breeding; animals involved in cruelty cases.
  • Protection of endangered, exotic and protected species in their natural habitat, as well as protection of these species for the purpose of trade and exploitation.
 
 
 
 
OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN:
 
 
Animal Friends Croatia is a non-profit, non governmental organization, established with the goal of promoting animal rights, animal protection and vegetarianism as an ethical, ecologically acceptable and healthy lifestyle.
Image: Animal Friends Educational Day

Animal Friends Croatia currently has almost 3,400 members, both in the country and abroad, and over 24,000 supporters. Since its inception 7 years ago, AFC has organized about 250 campaigns and demos which have focused on animal suffering in the food industry, experiment laboratories, fur farms, hunting and fishing, the entertainment industry and promoting an ethical lifestyle.

As well as educating through public demos, information stalls, lectures and films, protests, performances and more, the organization has also lobbied for improvements to relevant bills and legislation.

 
   
 
  ZeGeVege Festival of Sustainable Living 2008   AFC supports the international campaign for the ban on trade in seal products throughout Europe  
     
  Anti Bullfighting Campaign   'Blind Because of Beauty' Procter & Gamble Boycott