I founded Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) back in 2005. The animals of Serbia (the Balkans) needed a voice and I was gonna try and be one. It was a constant heavy battle with the government to try and win rights for animals, especially stray animals. Many threats of shelter closure was made to activists if the government did not get its own way.

As a live animal transport investigator time was taken to research the export of live sheep from Serbia to Israel. The Serbian government always told us it had never happened, I took the issue to the EU and raised the proof (that it did) with them. It was only after this the Serbian government had to come clean and admit to the EU it was happening.

For some farm animals things were no better; there were battles to get better rights for farm animals:

Below – NO, not ok !

We worked with Mark Glover at ‘Respect for Animals’), Nottingham England; https://respectforanimals.org/ and our investigation info was used as part of the campaign evidence used to get the national fur farm ban:

Serbian fur farming ban comes into force

In memory of Slavica; my Serbian animal buddy. Mark

Above – With Denise and our new Bee Hotel

Link to old SAV site – https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-us/

Regards Mark