Our achievements
Some of our achievements in recent years
In 2022
- We managed to get Civitatis to stop selling tickets for the most harmful animal tourism activities, and we prepared with them the first report on the effects of tourism on wildlife and conservation.
- The Ministry of Culture of Spain eliminated public subsidies to circuses with wild animals thanks to the more than one hundred thousand signatures delivered by the InfoCIRCOS coalition.
- We achieved the collaboration of the Barcelona City Council and the College of Veterinarians to care for the animals of homeless people.
- Together with Eurogroup for Animals, we officially delivered 1.4 Million validated signatures to the European Commission as part of the Save Cruelty Free Cosmetics campaign.
- We obtained a pioneering sentence that prohibits a man who killed his dog from living with other animals and also that the El Campello City Council initiates a disciplinary proceeding for the mistreatment of the chimpanzee Suzie.
- We raised 30,000 euros for animal shelters suffering the horrors of the war in Ukraine.
- We present two new online courses for our Virtual Campus: Licitaciones and Nutrición Vegana 2.0.
En 2021
- The European Parliament approves the resolution on the End The Cage Age European Citizens' Initiative for which FAADA collected signatures in Spain.
- Together with Eurogroup for Animals and InfoCIRCOS we officially delivered 1 Million validated signatures to the European Commission within the framework of the Stop Circus Suffering campaign.
- We participated in the draft of the new Law for the Protection and Rights of Animals, which was presented by the Ministry of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda and the General Directorate of Animal Rights.
- We advise the Trasmed shipping company to implement different measures to travel with pets on all Grimaldi Group ships that connect mainland Spain (Valencia and Barcelona) with the Balearic Islands.
- We present three new online courses for our Virtual Campus: La realidad del Silvestrismo, Educació Humanitària (recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya) and Nutrición Vegana.
In 2020
- We activated an emergency desk to offer support and solve doubts about animals and COVID-19 during the state of alarm in Spain.
- We presented the Humanitarian Education online course, the first Spanish-speaking in the world, that in just a few months exceeded 170 registrations.
- Together with Eurogroup for Animals, we officially delivered 1.4 Million validated signatures to the European Commission as part of End The Cage Age campaign.
- As part of the Prou Correbous coalition, we promoted a new opinion survey that concludes that four out of five Catalans consider that the correbous represent animal abuse.
In 2019
- We achieved a historic and groundbreaking sentence in Spain against classified ad websites Milanuncios and Vibbo, involving a fine of €150,000 for publishing animal ads on their websites.
- We launched the No Somos Peligrosos (We’re Not Dangerous) campaign to amend an unfair and ineffective law on potentially dangerous dogs, in which we collected almost 70,000 signatures to present to the Ministries of the Interior and Agriculture.
- The Fish Trap campaign won two communication awards and we screened it in 100 cinemas throughout Spain and displayed it on metro stations and bus shelters in the main cities in the country.
- In collaboration with other entities, we launched the Coalition of Positive List, with the aim of ending illegal trafficking of wild species in Spain, and we set up the Prou Correbous (End Bull-running) website, an initiative to end cruel bull-running in Catalonia.
In 2018
- We achieved the political support for a historic institutional declaration that makes Barcelona the first city in Europe officially free of cetaceans in captivity.
- We joined the Pedagogical Innovation Council of the Barcelona government.
- We launched the Fish Trap campaign to raise awareness about the overexploitation of marine species in Spain.
- The Most Savage Casting won the Cinesa Se Mueve contest and is being projected in cinemas throughout Spain.
In 2017
- We premiered our first documentary project, EMPATÍA (Empathy) by the production company La Diferencia. It was awared by the Greenpeace Film Festival and the Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival.
- We set up the Millors Amics project to facilitate the accommodation of people in a homeless condition with their animals in shelters and social housing or inclusion of Barcelona and Catalonia.
- We elaborated a rescue protocol for the rescue of equidae in colaboration with the Catalan Government.
- We collaborate in the conversion of the hostels of the Generalitat de Catalunya in spaces friendly to animals.
- Thanks to our complaints, two animal stores in Barcelona are closed.
- We publish, together with Logosedizioni, the book Amigos by the illustrator Roger Olmos.
In 2016
- We managed to get the Barcelona City Hall and the Catalan Regional Government to close down the shop Puppies, thanks to complaints lodged by FAADA, forcing the seizure of 83 animals.
- We launched the first Course in Humanitarian Education (Human Rights, Environmental Ethic and Animal Protection), recognised by the Catalan Government, with great success.
- We started the campaign Adéu Delfinari to ask for the closure of the Barcelona dolphinarium. This achieved the stance from the Barcelona government not to build a new dolphinarium and to find the best relocation for the 6 dolphins.
- We rescued and relocated Mimo and Arán, the brown bears from the town of Artíes (Vall d’Aran), who had been living in a cage for 20 and 5 years respectively.
In 2015
- We achieved the closure of the Aqualeón Zoo (in Catalonia) and the relocation of the animals.
- Catalonia declared itself free from circuses with wild animals and FAADA organised some of the appearances in the Parliament of Catalonia which led to this historical decision.
- We publish, together with Logosedizioni, the book Sin Palabras by the illustrator Roger Olmos.
In 2014
- We achieved the modification of the local by-laws on the possession and commercialisation of animals in Barcelona, with significant steps in the interest of animals.
In 2013
- We rescued Bruno, a bear destined to a life of exploitation in the world of advertising.
- We prepared and presented, together with various animal protection entities, the first census of exotic animals collected in Catalonia.
- We got the closing of the last kiosk in the Ramblas that sold animals.
In 2012
- We started the campaign Sóc Responsable (I am responsible) to identify and sterilise animals at reduced prices in Catalonia and Madrid.
- We set up the coalition SOSdelfines which we lead with the aim of raising awareness of the problems that cetaceans in captivity suffer.
- We launched the initiative ADnimalsfree to raise awareness about the problems of using wild animals in the audiovisual sector.
In 2011
- We launched the initiative Responsible Tourism towards Animals.
- We officially established the CIPAC (Representative commission of animal protectors of Catalonia), a coalition led by FAADA to combine the efforts of the animal protection organisations.
In 2010
- In collaboration with Libera!, we organised the campaign “Ramblas Éticas”, which, at last, led to the closure of the stalls selling animals on the Ramblas of Barcelona.
- We administratively managed the platform PROU (enough), set up to achieve the abolition of bull fighting in Catalonia. It makes up part of the commission promoting the Popular Legislation Initiative which put an end to bull fighting on the 28th July 2010.
- We organised the International Festival for the Defence of Animals (FIDA), an event to increase sensitivity in Barcelona which brought together over 4.000 people.
In 2009
- We collect signatures through the Plataforma Prou to request the prohibition of bullfighting in Catalonia.
In 2008
- Together with Fundación Trifolium y Altarriba we organised the 1st World Forum of Animals (FOMA), with the slogan “Peace for animals too”. It was held at the CosmoCaixa of Barcelona with personalities who promoted Barcelona as a city committed to animals.
