Investigations

In a ground breaking investigation conducted by our team for GAIA , we exposed the grim reality of dairy calf exploitation on several farms across Belgium.

We are pleased to announce the release of a comprehensive two-year inquiry into the illicit puppy trade on behalf of Four Paws.

In the heart of Mauritius, a sinister industry thrives, dealing in the lives of innocent monkeys subjected to the horrors of animal testing. This year, after a decade-long hiatus, we returned for our latest ground breaking investigation in collaboration with One Voice.

In December 2022, Tracks investigated the factory farming of turkeys for GAIA - the leading animal protection organisation in Belgium.

Tracks Investigations documented at factory farms across the UK for World Animal Protection in support of their new campaign, “No Future for Factory Farming.”

In May 2022, Tracks investigated pig farming in Greece for A Promise to Animals (APA), a new animal rights group based in the country.

Tracks Investigations produced multi-language films for Cruelty Free International to expose what life is like for animals in laboratories.

Tracks documented the miserable lives of 10 tigers kept in miserable conditions in flat bed trailers in an industrial estate in France for the animal rights organisation One Voice. As a result of the investigation, the tigers were rescued.

Tracks produced an investigative campaign and lobbying film watched by almost one and a half million people that helped the campaign by Cruelty Free International to shut down an animal lab and raise awareness of the cruelty of toxicity testing on animals.

In collaboration with animal rights organisation One Voice, Tracks documented the heartbreaking life of Baby, an elephant who was captured from the wild in Kenya when she was barely two years old.

Using hidden cameras, Tracks document the ‘harvesting’ process of angora wool for the animal rights organisation One Voice.

In summer 2020, Tracks investigated the four remaining fur farms in France for the animal rights organisation One Voice.

Tracks undertook the first ever investigation into the cat meat trade in Vietnam for Change for Animals Foundation

20 years after the scandal: Tracks conducted a hidden camera investigation into the last three cattle markets in Belgium for GAIA, the leading animal protection organisation in the country,

In 2019, Tracks documented a ‘shed full of horrors’ at turkeys farms across Belgium, with dead, dying and decomposing turkeys littering the floor of factory farm sheds.

In 2019, with the help of whistleblowers, Tracks investigated the shooting industry in France to reveal the reality of how these birds are factory farmed.

In September 2019, Tracks investigated the extreme housing conditions for three performing bears in France – Micha, Bony and Glasha, resulting in their freedom.

In December 2019, Tracks investigated the use of farrowing crates to confine sows in UK pig farms for CIWF.

In this investigative film for CIWF, Tracks followed calves down from Scotland - to Dover - to Calais - to stopping points in France.

Tracks have undertaken four in-depth investigations into the trafficking of illegal puppies into the UK from Eastern Europe for Dogs Trust UK.

In 2011 and 2016, Tracks undertook groundbreaking investigations inside the brutal world of fur trapping in the United States in collaboration with Born Free and Respect for Animals.

Since 2006 our investigators have travelled the world undertaking a number of daring missions in countries like Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Peru and Mauritius exposing the inherent cruelty and suffering inflicted on monkeys in the international trade of primates for research.

In 2016, Tracks visited fur farms operating in the region of Flanders to obtain new evidence to support a ban on keeping mink in fur farms in all of Belgium. 

In 2016, Tracks obtained footage for PETA and IAR revealing the capture and killing of a large number of dogs in Mauritius.

In 2016, Tracks conducted the inaugural investigation of a Belgian animal testing facility by deploying an undercover agent at the University of Brussels (VUB) for an extensive six-month inquiry.

Tracks’ live export investigations for Animals Australia in Middle East & Indonesia

In 2014, Tracks investigated several EBRD-funded farms and the results were shocking: animal and farmworker abuse; local communities driven to the edge; environmental damage.

Tracks filmed, produced and edited a hard-hitting emotional film on the impact that mass-scale soybean production is having on Argentina, commissioned by CIWF USA.

Tracks produced an investigative documentary into the environmental consequences of factory farming of chickens in the USA commissioned by CIWF USA.