Urban birds facing starvation during lockdown
As long as people have to stay at home, stray dogs & cats as well as urban birds are facing starvation unless if governments allow some citizens to take responsibility. In some countries, even monkeys are suffering from starvation because they were habituated In...
Α statistician who is working in crisis modelling and simulation informing us οn the coronovirus.
The next two months will be critical. We will remember them for the rest of our lives. I would like to offer a few pieces of information, under the burden of my professional capacity as a statistician who is working in crisis modelling and simulation, and the...
Press release: Toulon Declaration: “Animals must be considered as non-human natural persons”
On Friday, 29 March 2019, scholars from the Faculty of Law provided a legal response to the Cambridge Declaration. The Toulon Declaration states that animals should be considered as "non-human natural persons" and not as things. The Cambridge Declaration, proclaimed...
Letter to the United Nations – WoDES 2018
Dear members of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Dear members of the institutions attached to the United Nations, This 25th August is the World Day for the End of Speciesism. The notion of speciesism can be understood by analogy with racism or sexism;...
Have you ever heard of Speciesism?
Have you ever heard of speciesism? Many scholars have found that our relationship to the animals is based on speciesism (1). By analogy with racism and sexism, this concept refers to the ideology considering that the lives and interests of animals can be overlooked...
The right person at the right time (can make a significant difference)
Who planted the seed for the decision of Germany's environment minister to ban meat from the official functions menu? Today I want to share with you a story with a great lesson. I have read the great news about the decision of Germany's environment minister back in...