Wildlife

One Voice launches a campaign with its partners Blue Voice, OceanCare and Mundo Azul against the barbaric fishing of sharks in Peruvian waters. On the agenda: local level actions and a petition in France.

One Voice's fight continues for the wolves as a member of 'CAP Loup' (a group of nature protection associations working together to protect wolves in France) and with the ASPAS (Association for the Protection of Wild Animals). The local decrees authorising shooting are systematically subject to an urgent complaint being filed and an appeal is lodged against the ministerial decree authorising the culling of 36 wolves.

One Voice provides support to the association P-WAC in the creation of a chimpanzee sanctuary dedicated to survivors of poaching in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A joint demonstration by One Voice and its partner associations unifies 5,000 people opposed to wolf hunting in Lyon

One Voice supports ARTHEN for the reintroduction to France of Tarpans, an ancient species of wild horse.

One Voice, alongside other organisations of CAP Loup, starts a series of legal challenges to illegal decrees. Four wolves are saved from culling.

Launch of the campaign to protect the ibex of Bargy in the French Alps.

One Voice joins CAP Loup, an alliance of organisations for the protection of wolves in France.

Launch of the campaign Frère Loup (Brother Wolf) to clear the name of this misunderstood animal.

Champa the elephant is freed after nine years of campaigning in India alongside Wildlife SOS. She is the first to join the elephant sanctuary that we set up. Bhola joins her a few months later.

On 9th December, Jeeth, the last dancing bear in India, is freed when Muriel Arnal cuts his tether. It is a historic victory, the end of 400 years of a cruel tradition.

Following our investigation in China, One Voice joins up with ACTAsia to improve the lot of animals, whether victims of cruel practices in zoos, killed for their flesh, or tortured for bile.

Campaign for the animals in Can Tho zoo in Vietnam.

An investigation in China prior to the Olympics reveals the fate of zoo animals and dogs and cats turned into meat.

Ric O'Barry, consultant to One Voice, returns once again to Taiji at the request of Time Magazine Asia. He then embarks on a tour of France to explain to the public the problem of captive marine mammals.

In Sri Lanka, One Voice helps the Turtle Conservation Project to rebuild its marine sanctuary which had been wrecked

Thanks to the Solidarity Action Fun, One Voice enables the rescue, with Wildlife SOS, of many animals after floods and mudslides devastate Maharashtra state in India. Five starving lions are removed from the zoo where they were dying and taken to a rescue centre.

One Voice continues its investigation in Japan with Ric O'Barry, the former trainer of Flipper, who returns to Taiji accompanied by journalists. A demonstration is organised in front of the Japanese embassy.

One Voice goes to court over the murder of Cannelle, the last bear in the Pyrenees.

An exclusive investigation by One Voice in Japan proves for the first time the link between the Taiji dolphin massacres and the captive dolphin business. The images are broadcast around the world by the BBC in 2004 and then seen by scientists at the 19th European Cetacean Society conference in La Rochelle in 2005, as well as the International Whaling Commission. It's a sledgehammer blow to the international dolphinarium business ! Finally the public sees the scale of the hypocrisy of those who claim to be working to protect cetaceans !

Start of an employment retraining programme in India for Kalandar nomadic gypsies, who turn over to us their dancing bears.The anti-poaching team ForestWatch is formed with Wildlife SOS.

One Voice comes to the aid of the lemur protection organisation Terre d'Asile on the French island of Mayotte, near Madagascar, which created a sanctuary for lemurs that are victims of poaching, or abused companion animals, or considered as vermin and therefore killed.

Campaign for the animals in Kinshasa zoo.

One Voice provides support for HELP Congo, in the Republic of Congo, where Aliette Jamart reintroduces chimpanzees to the wild. We also support ABC, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Claudine André has created the sanctuary Lola ya Bonobo for orphan bonobos rescued from trafficking and war.

Opening with Wildlife SOS of the Agra bear sanctuary in India.

One Voice/Talis takes to court the organisers of an illegal wolf hunt, with our partner ASPAS. We also sent a letter to the national sheep farmers' federation.

One Voice/Talis joins IWF, the international federation to protect wolves.