**4. Tactics**

However, the di fferences between the two types of groups are not limited merely to ideology. They also manifest themselves in relation to violence and the tactics derived from it. In its struggle for "restoring ecological balance", the environmental movement employs, almost exclusively, indirect violence that is based on acts of ecological sabotage, whereas animal-rights groups, apart from indirect violence, use also, although in a limited scope, direct violence targeting human beings.


to ignite. The attack was used by the acting Chancellor of UCLA, to constitute the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. In December 2015, the ALF admitted that they had organized an arson attack on a clubhouse operated by the Fox Terrier Association in Germany, in consequence of which, the building burned down. This attack came after an incident in June of the same year, when the ALF released several foxes from an enclosure on the club's plot [48]. In June 2015, another arson attack took place—fire was set to two trucks belonging to Harlan Laboratory in Mississauga, Canada. The activists accused Harlan of supplying research animals and animal feed for vivisectionists [49].

