Nonetheless, SAFE has had a significant impact to improve animal protection across New Zealand.
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Bishop added that the governor garnered much of his support from animal protection groups and environmentalists.
Since June, the Highways Agency has carried out preliminary work including installing fencing and animal protection work.
The Catalan vote means Article 6 of the Animal Protection Act will strictly outlaw bullfights in Catalonia from 1 January 2012.
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The animal protection group Humane Society International said the new directive would still not prevent "severe suffering" in certain types of animal testing.
The parliament's rapporteur on the proposed directive, German centre-right MEP Elisabeth Jeggle, said it would be a "quantum leap forward" in animal protection.
But other animal protection organizations praised the decision.
"When I applied for a job in Iowa in 2009 and they asked me if I had any affiliations to animal protection groups, I would have had to say yes, I wouldn't have gotten the job and I wouldn't have been able to expose the conditions that raised questions about the egg industry there, " he told BBC News.
"The whole point of the production method is to create this diseased liver, which is unlike any other form of animal agriculture where you're not just growing animals to be eating, but you're also torturing the animal to grossly enlarge its organs for consumption, " Bryan Pease, an attorney and chairman of the board of the Animal Protection and Rescue League, said.
Hesayne and her colleague Sevine Zahran have lobbied the Lebanese government to increase its animal-protection laws.
Lebanon is one of a few countries not signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), making it an easy transit point for wildlife smugglers, and it has few domestic animal-protection laws.
According to WTO rules, countries must either accept the WTO's stringent patent-protection regime for plant and animal products or set up their own systems for protection.
The core area of this site is of great value in the protection of marine ecosystems and the habitats of various important plant and animal species.
In addition to more standard criteria like unspoiled natural beauty and authentic cultural experiences, researchers judged destinations on 35 metrics in four categories: environment protection, social welfare, human rights, and for the first time, animal welfare.
Inspector John Grierson, Northern Constabulary's animals officer, said it was an offence under the Protection of Animals Act for any person to do anything unreasonable which led to an animal coming to harm.
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