{"id":33187,"date":"2025-02-19T18:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uanimals.org\/?p=33187"},"modified":"2025-02-19T18:19:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:19:34","slug":"uanimals-announces-jury-for-the-2025-national-animal-protection-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uanimals.org\/en\/news\/uanimals-announces-jury-for-the-2025-national-animal-protection-award\/","title":{"rendered":"UAnimals Announces Jury for the 2025 National Animal Protection Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March, UAnimals will announce the winners of this year\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uanimals.org\/en\/award-2025\/\"><strong>National Animal Protection Award<\/strong><\/a><\/span>. The jury, composed of public activists, past winners, and even a former British detective, will select the winners from nearly a thousand nominees.<\/p>\n<p>The full jury lineup has been published on the award\u2019s website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jojo Mehta<\/strong>, co-founder of <em>Stop Ecocide International<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Randell<\/strong>, international researcher of animal crimes, former Senior Detective with the UK police<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inha Sakada<\/strong>, head of rescue <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">department<\/span>\u00a0at UAnimals<\/li>\n<li><strong>Olha Chevhaniuk<\/strong>, head of strategic initiatives department at UAnimals<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yuliia Ovchynnikova<\/strong>, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yuliia Ovchynnikova, Member of Parliament and co-chair of Humane State inter-factional union<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Masi Nayyem<\/strong>, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, lawyer, and human rights defender<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Angelina Usanova<\/strong>, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UN and IIMSAM Goodwill Ambassador,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miss Eco International 2024, founder of the Angelina Usanova Foundation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrea Cisternino<\/strong>, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">owner and director of Rifugio Italia KJ2 shelter, winner of the Ukrainian Animal Protection Award 2023 (main picture)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Oleksandr Syplenko<\/strong>, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">head of Sumske Tovarystvo Zakhystu Tvaryn, lawyer, winner of the Ukrainian Animal Protection Award 2023.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the third time UAnimals has presented the Animal Protection Award to individuals who consistently support animals and the environment in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33178 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/uanimals.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Msrk-Rendell-2-600x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uanimals.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Msrk-Rendell-2-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/uanimals.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Msrk-Rendell-2-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/uanimals.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Msrk-Rendell-2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/uanimals.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Msrk-Rendell-2.jpeg 1354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The names of this year\u2019s winners will be announced soon\u2014stay tuned for updates. You can support UAnimals\u2019 work <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uanimals.org\/en\/how-to-help\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March, UAnimals will announce the winners of this year\u2019s National Animal Protection Award. The jury, composed of public activists, past winners, and even a former British detective, will select the winners from nearly a thousand nominees. The full jury lineup has been published on the award\u2019s website: Jojo Mehta, co-founder of Stop Ecocide International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UAnimals Announces Jury for the 2025 National Animal Protection Award - UAnimals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uanimals.org\/en\/news\/uanimals-announces-jury-for-the-2025-national-animal-protection-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UAnimals Announces Jury for the 2025 National Animal Protection Award - UAnimals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In March, UAnimals will announce the winners of this year\u2019s National Animal Protection Award. 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