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Ippica, IHP: “Celebrazione per Ribot a Pisa è retorica che maschera lo sfruttamento”
18/02/2022 - coming soon
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The Constitution recognises the welfare of animals and of the environment: IHP at work to propose a legal framework for horse welfare
09/02/2022 - The protection of the environment, of biodiversity and ecosystems, and the commitment to control ‘ways and methods for animal welfare’, have now entered the Italian Constitution.  With a strong majority, yesterday the Chamber of Deputies passed Articles 9 and 41 of the Charter.
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Canicattì yard legally seize. IHP: “Very serious issues. where is the ASL?”
08/02/2022 - We applaud the Carabinieri of Canicattì, the Palermo Nas, and the Agrigento crime centre, for legally seizing an equestrian centre at Canicattì. But at the same time, we want to know where the ASL is, because some very serious anomalies have emerged
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Horse racing - Sweden bans the use of whips to incite horses in competition
02/02/2022 - coming soon
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Palermo, Carabinieri raid on drug traffickers
21/01/2022 - The investigation started in 2018, when two horses were seriously injured—one of them fatally—in a stable. They were probably victims of a dispute between criminal gangs and shot by way of retaliation. The Carabinieri investigations discovered the existence of two gangs that disputed the predominance over the cocaine, hashish and marijuana markets
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Show jumping: Beerbaum caught barring horses
13/01/2022 - coming soon
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A new home for the Etruscan Coast Palio? IHP responds: “The Regione should remember also who it is that rescues horses, while the Italian Rescue Centre risks closure”
28/12/2021 - “Apparently the Etruscan Coast Palio has found ‘a new home’, in Cecina, where the next race will be held on 18 April, the previous ones having run at San Vincenzo.” Sonny Richichi, president of IHP (Italian Horse Protection) challenges the Regione Toscana and the Comune di Cecina, following their decision to support the Etruscan Coast Palio. We would remind Eugenio Giani, the President of the Regione Toscana, who has presented the news as a big exciting and popular event and which the organization that he presides has agreed to sponsor, that unfortunately the horses used in this type of traditional event are passive participants who often end up very badly indeed. And we remind him further that the first Italian horse welfare association, IHP, is actually based in Tuscany, and which is fully recognised by the Italian Ministry of Health, its Rescue Centre for mistreated equines being located at Montaione”.
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Blood farms: ONG write to the European Commissioner
15/12/2021 - coming soon
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Drugs produced in Iceland with the torture of pregnant mares
22/11/2021 - Lagers with horses tortured and sent to death in the heart of Europe, in the very civilized Iceland, which is sold to the world as the cradle of well-being and respect for animals: the long and accurate investigation conducted by the international network of animal rights associations to which IHP (Italian Horse Protection) belongs to, coordinated by the Italian-Swiss AWF-TSB (the Animal Welfare Foundation), shows in Iceland the conditions of suffering and abuse of pregnant mares from which the hormone PMSG is extracted
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IHP says no to the culling of Giglio’s wild sheep
22/11/2021 - Sonny Richichi commented, regarding the decision taken by the Parco dell’Arcipelago Toscano, in the context of the project ‘Life LetsGoGiglio’, to allow the killing of some 40 or 50 mouflons on the island of Giglio, considered as non-indigenous animals, given that they were taken there in the 1950s (ironically, specifically to protect them).
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