Our History

In the years 70 exploded the scandal of the massacres of puppies of seals in various parts of the world.

In Europe was constituted the „European Committee Defence of the Seals and other fur animals”; the Committee was composed of representatives of the various European countries: France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Austria.

Its particular characteristic was that, to be an autonomous organism, but in straight collaboration with the national associations, so much that every representative made also part of an association.

After the achievement of the the prohibition of the hunting to the puppies of seals and the collapse of the marketing of the skins, the Committee in the years 80 began the battle against the breedings of foxes, minks etc.

In Italy it has translated and spread the contents of the book of Henk Lambertz (Dutch representative of the Committee), "the jail of the animals", in which the author, selling himself off for aspirant breeder, could document the monstrous conditions of life and suppression of these animals.

Subsequently, to conform itself to the national normative in theme of associations and for the disappearance of numerous other sections, the Italian Section became autonomous and assumed the name of "Comitato Europeo Difesa Animali onlus" (European Committee Defence Animals NPO).

Why Committee?

Also being an association to all the effects, we have wanted to maintain the denomination Committee because it represents well the formulation of our activity.

In difference to the fact, as it normally happens with the partners of the associations, that are limited to pay the annual fee and to read - if they do it - the social magazine, in a committee the components are all active people that want to work for a common aim.

Who associates therefore wants to work concretely for the guardianship of the nature, the development of the rights of the animals and to assure them a better life, in the limits of the own possibilities: this is why there are those who take care of feline colonies, are against the poaching, against the celebrations with animals, who proposes initiatives.

In short, we are all united by the awareness that our job is as a piece of a mosaic that, however small and meaningless it can seem, together with thousands and thousands of others will form, time after time, a marvellous image.

Therefore the collaboration assumes an extreme importance and the diffusion of the initiatives of the different associations, to overcome the principal limit that countersigns it: the inevitable " competition " that pushes it to set the margin at the work of the others, with the purpose to avoid that its own partners carry verse of their resources that are always unfortunately necessary for their own activity. This is therefore a inevitable consequence of the "shortage of partners."

To avoid to participate at the competition for necessity of funds and partners, our Committee has an essential structure as far as the active partners handle to sustain by themselves the expenses for their own initiatives, as can be read by the extremely reduced budget. Not only, but the basic quota is reduced to the proper minimum to allow the partners as well as to enrol themselves in other associations, as to sustain the expenses for the support of the initiatives introduced on the News-bulletin.

The "Notiziario Animalista" (Animalist news)

Also our social bulletin represents the practice of our way of working: it brings in fact the initiatives of the partners and of a lot of other associations, even those smaller ones, that are not able to spread the own initiatives to a (active!) national public.

For choice it is in recycled paper and monochrome (blue); the active partners are motivated in fact from the contents and don't have necessity of colours and paper of quality; this evidently involves the exclusion towards the public that instead asks for these factors, public however that poorly is activated with letters etc.

The News-bulletin is a periodical for the partners of the Committee, but you can ask for a copy of the most recent numbers sending a postage stamp of € 1,00 + shipping and handling to:

Comitato Europeo Difesa Animali onlus

Via M. Monti, 53

22034 BRUNATE CO

(Italy)

Formed by 8,12,16 pages, it goes out every 2/4 months (double numbers) and it contains every time from 6 to 15 initiatives which all can be sustained by a dispatch of coupons pre-stamped as well as via (common) mail, as by fax, by e-mail or by the collection of signatures.

The partners that desire to sign an initiative, send the material, related to this but don't have to be a copy of the already existing publications, because there are already so many of it, and also beautiful!

For info:

www.animalitalia.it - Tel. +39 031 364004 - Fax. +39 031 220515