About Us

Our Organisation

Animals’ Angels is an international organisation with full-time investigators working in Australia, Europe, and the United States. Our focus is on improving conditions in transportation and handling of animals used in farming. We work primarily in the field, visiting saleyards as well as attending ports from where live animals are exported on ships to overseas destinations for slaughter. We cooperate with saleyard managers and various authorities (The WA Animal Welfare Unit, Police, Department of Agriculture and Food WA, Federal Dept of Agriculture)

Animals’ Angels is the only animal welfare organisation that is a member of the EU Commission Advisory Group on the Food Chain and Animal and Plant Health.

 
Christa Blanke, a former theologian founded Animals’ Angels in Germany in 1998. She now acts as the Managing Director, coordinates the investigations and maintains contact with local authorities and senior officials within the various governments.

 

 

Our Investigators:

Animals’ Angels investigators are highly qualified and come from a variety of professions, including veterinarians, lawyers, animal behaviourists and forensic specialists. All are well versed in current animal transport and slaughter legislation.  Many speak several languages, and participate in seminars and trainings on an on-going basis. Animals’ Angels currently employs 17 investigators working full time, part-time and on a freelance basis.

Contact us

We are a small organisation and use most of our resources and time to be with the animals.  Because of this, please excuse us in advance for not always being able to answer your emails or phone calls promptly.

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