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Kids Spring Into Action to Help an Injured Bird
Three cool Umina kids, Matisse Lehmann, Jasmine Duxbury and Calum Lehmann, have each received a Hero for Animals Award from PETA for saving a duck who had apparently been injured by an arrow. While playing near a creek, the youngsters found an arrow and then a bleeding duck. They wrapped her in a towel, and she…
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Will Abbott End Australia’s National Disgrace?
In the weeks leading up to the election, PETA’s “sheep” mascot, Lucy, made sure neither candidate could forget about the plight of sheep who are discarded by Australia’s wool industry and then sent overseas for slaughter by following the candidates around on their campaign trails and holding up a sign urging them to ban live export.…
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Animal Homelessness: The Crisis and the Cure
Every year, about 200,000 dogs and cats are euthanised in Australia’s animal shelters and pounds for lack of good homes. Caring shelter workers who have devoted their lives to helping animals have no humane choice but to perform this heartbreaking task because so many people don’t bother to have their cats and dogs desexed and…
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Pink and PETA Team Up to Reward Animal Lovers!
This competition is now closed! Thanks to all who entered. The lucky winners will receive their DVDs in the mail soon! It’s no secret that Pink loves animals. She’s spoken up for sheep, chickens, horses and crocodiles and also discussed her desire to rescue pigs. She’s even offered her own money as a reward…
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Australian Defence Force Cutting Open Live Animals
PETA has confirmed that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) is still subjecting live animals to “live tissue trauma training” exercises, despite being fully informed of viable non-animal methods that can and should be used. The medical training guidelines published by Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) state that “[t]raining methods which do not…