OBJECTIVES

PROJECTS

KOUPREY

WILDLIFE PARKS/ ZOOS

SPECIES SAVED FROM EXTINCTION BY ZOOS

PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

COMPANIES AND ANIMAL RESPECT

ANIMAL'S RIGHTS

ANIMAL’S PROTECTION: A CITIZENSHIP AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS ACT

The animals always existed, forming the environment, and besides, a long before human existence in the Earth, it was already inhabited by animals, the dinosaurs. 

For this reason that we must pay attention to the animal’s importance in our life and for environmental conservation, as the balanced and healthy environment is formed by a whole, from which we depend on for the maintenance of our life’s quality and for our own existence and surviving. 

Besides, considering the great importance of the animals in our life, that Brazilian legislation is carefully dealing with the animal’s legal protection. 

In 1934 it was published the Decree nº 24.645, still valid, establishing ways to animal’s protection. 

The Brazilian Federal Constitution (1988) also brings the animal’s protection in its body, article 225, that deals about environment, and in its §1º, VII it says that it is the State obligation protecting fauna and flora, and prohibiting the practices that may cause risks to the ecological function, and that provokes species extinction or subdues animals to cruelty. 

Finally, in 1998, it was published the Federal Law nº 9.605, the Environmental Crimes Law, establishing criminal and administrative penalties for environmental violation, and special distinction to the article 32, “caput”, that protects all kinds of animals from abuse, bad-treats, injure and mutilation. 

So, we must emphasize that all animals are sheltered in our legislation, and any act that causes prejudice to an animal is a crime, no matter if it is a rare wild animal in extinction or a stray animal walking through the streets.

Besides, environmental preservation is a citizenship act and our obligation. Let’s think about it!

Universal Declaration of Animals Rights

Text in collaboration by Renata de Freitas Martins