We want to thank every one of you who signed and shared our petition and joined in with this campaign. On the 15th of June, our team in Beijing handed in our campaign materials to the Yulin Government Liaison Office in Beijing and we also held a demonstration right outside the office building, raising awareness of our campaign and educating the Chinese public about the Yulin dog-meat "festival" and why it should be banned. Please see our Facebook page update for this: https://www.facebook.com/togetherforanimalsinchina/photos/a.203903696454172.1073741827.200450100132865/298887193622488/?type=1 More photos of the petition being handed in can be seen on TACN Flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tacn_official/sets/72157644607586936 This online petition will be kept open and more signatures are needed to fuel our continuous fight against the Yulin dog-meat "festival" and the cat/dog-meat trade in China! According to Yulin local volunteers insights, this year: • the Yulin dog-meat "festival" has seen significant loss in trades of dog-meat • some dog traffickers saw loss of tens of thousands Yuan through this year, and thousands of Yuan loss during the "festival"; • Yulin local gov has placed strict checks on trucks loaded with live dogs coming into Yulin • for those businesses usually praise their staff via a dog-meat banquet, they have stopped doing so this year • there has been a lot less live dogs being traded and slaughtered openly in public, many live dogs have been rescued by activists • over 10 dog-meat sellers have shut down The above information was obtained via various channels from front-line rescuers and activists in China. We have definitely seen big progress with all the efforts to ban the Yulin dog-meat "festival" and fighting against the cat/dog-meat trade in China. This year we have made our voice louder and been heard by mainstream media. If we keep at it and continue with a strategic campaign, we have hope that soon this "festival" will become the past. So let's not stop here, and carry on with the fight for those innocent animals!