List of animal advocacy parties

In recent years, several political parties were founded that have as their main goal the improvement of animal welfare and the recognition of animal rights:

Political parties

The Human Environment Animal Welfare Party (in German: Partei Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz, in short: Tierschutzpartei) was founded in Germany, in 1993.
The Party for the Animals (in Dutch: Partij voor de Dieren) was founded in the Netherlands in 2002. It is represented in parliament with two seats by Marianne Thieme and Esther Ouwehand.
The Animalist Party Against Mistreatment to Animals (in Spanish: PACMA, founded in 2003 as Partido Antitaurino Contra el Maltrato Animal, in 2011 renamed to Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal).
The Animal Welfare Party was launched in the UK in 2006.
The Animal Protection Party was founded in England in 2008.
The Partito Animalista Europeo was founded in Italy in 2006.
The Italian Animal Welfare Party was founded in Italy in 2006.
The People-Animals-Nature (PAN) formerly Party for Animals and Nature (Partido pelos Animais e pela Natureza) was founded in Portugal in 2009. It is represented in parliament by André Silva elected for the Lisbon electoral circle in the legislative elections of 2015.
Fokus was founded in Denmark in 2010, originally as a splinter group from the Danish People's Party.
The Party EcoAnimalista (EcoAnimalista Facebook) was founded in Italy in 2012.
The Animals' Party (in Swedish: Djurens parti) was founded in Sweden in 2014.
The Animal Party Cyprus was founded in 2014.
The Euro Animal 7 European group founded in 2014.
The Animal Justice Party of Finland was founded in 2015.

The Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada was formed in 2005 by two organizations, the Animal Alliance of Canada and Environment Voters. Both parent organizations have been vocal in opposition to the seal hunt in Newfoundland and Labrador, fur farming, trapping, and bear hunting. The party is led by Liz White, a Toronto-based animal rights advocate.
The Humane Party was founded in the United States in 2009.
The Animal Rights Party USA was founded in the United States in 2011. It is modeled after the Dutch Party for the Animals (PvdD). Like the PvdD, it is a political animal welfare organization that focuses on improving animal welfare and animal rights, and solving related environmental problems.

The Animal Justice Party was founded in Australia in 2010. It is represented in the New South Wales Legislative Council with one seat.

Topics

Overview	Abolitionism Animal protectionism Animal welfare Speciesism Veganism more...

Issues	Ahimsa Animal cognition Animal consciousness Animal law Animal model Animal rights and the Holocaust Animal product Animal rights movement Animal testing Animal testing on non-human primates Animals in sport Anthrozoology Anti-hunting Bile bear Bioethics Blood sport Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness Carnism Cosmetics testing Chick culling Christianity and animal rights Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Cormorant culling Covance Cruelty to animals Deep ecology Ethics of eating meat Fox hunting Fur trade Great ape research ban Green Scare Huntingdon Life Sciences Intensive animal farming Ivory trade Livestock Meat paradox Nafovanny Nonviolence Open rescue Operation Backfire Pain in animals Pain and suffering in laboratory animals Primate trade Seal hunting Slaughterhouse Stock-free agriculture Toxicology testing Veganarchism Veganism Vegetarianism Western Australian shark cull more...

Cases	Brown Dog affair Cambridge University primates McLibel case Pit of despair Silver Spring monkeys University of California Riverside 1985 laboratory raid Unnecessary Fuss

Academics and writers	Carol Adams Tom Beauchamp Marc Bekoff Paola Cavalieri Stephen R. L. Clark Alasdair Cochrane J. M. Coetzee Priscilla Cohn David DeGrazia Sue Donaldson Josephine Donovan Lawrence Finsen Gary Francione Robert Garner Antoine Goetschel John Hadley Will Kymlicka Andrew Linzey Dan Lyons Mary Midgley Martha Nussbaum Siobhan O'Sullivan Clare Palmer Tom Regan Bernard Rollin Mark Rowlands Richard D. Ryder Peter Singer Henry Stephens Salt Steve Sapontzis Gary Steiner Cass Sunstein more...

Activists	Cleveland Amory Pamela Anderson Greg Avery Alec Baldwin Matt Ball Martin Balluch Barbi twins Brigitte Bardot Bob Barker Gene Baur Frances Power Cobbe Rod Coronado Evandro Costa Karen Davis Chris DeRose Robert Enke John Feldmann Bruce Friedrich Juliet Gellatley Jordan Halliday Barry Horne Ronnie Lee Lizzy Lind af Hageby Jo-Anne McArthur Paul McCartney Bill Maher Keith Mann Dan Mathews Ingrid Newkirk Heather Nicholson Alex Pacheco Jill Phipps Joaquin Phoenix Craig Rosebraugh Nathan Runkle Henry Spira Kim Stallwood Marianne Thieme Darren Thurston Andrew Tyler Gary Yourofsky more...

Movement

Groups	Animal Aid Animal Legal Defense Fund Animal Liberation Front British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection Centre for Animals and Social Justice Chinese Animal Protection Network Direct Action Everywhere Farm Animal Rights Movement Great Ape Project Hunt Saboteurs Association In Defense of Animals Korea Animal Rights Advocates Last Chance for Animals Mercy for Animals New England Anti-Vivisection Society Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Oxford Group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals United Poultry Concerns more...

Parties	AAEVP (Canada) Animal Justice Party (Australia) Animal Welfare Party (UK) PACMA (Spain) Partij voor de Dieren (Netherlands) Partito Animalista Italiano (Italy) Tierschutzpartei (Germany) more...

Media

Books	Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1894) Animals, Men and Morals (1971) Animal Liberation (1975) The Case for Animal Rights (1983) The Lives of Animals (1999) Striking at the Roots (2008) An American Trilogy (2009) more...

Films	The Animals Film (1981) A Cow at My Table (1998) Meet Your Meat (2002) Peaceable Kingdom (2004) Earthlings (2005) Behind the Mask (2006) The Cove (2009) Forks Over Knives (2011) Vegucated (2011) Speciesism: The Movie (2013) The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013) more...