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‘Immense Suffering’: PETA Objects to Piggery Expansion

PETA is urging residents to oppose the expansion of this cruel, environmentally disastrous development.

New Zealand’s Live Export Ban Is Under Threat

Animals on live-export ships face dehydration, starvation, and illness and are tossed about on rough seas, trampled by their shipmates, and suffocated in their own faeces.

Africa Union Bans Donkey Slaughter for Ejiao

Take action now to demand that Australia prohibit the export of all live donkeys to China.

Here’s Why Ginger & Smart Will Never Use Exotic Skins or Angora Fur

Shoppers don’t want animals to suffer and die for fashion, and the destructive impact of fur and leather on the planet is well known.

Update From Fremantle: 10 Days of Rest but No Reprieve

Near Fremantle Harbour, PETA’s latest billboard reminds passersby that “sheep can’t fight for sheep’s rights”.

NSW Could Be the First Jurisdiction to Ban the Forced Swim Test

Experimenters will soon no longer be allowed to initiate new projects that force mice and other mammals to experience the panic of near-drowning.

Animals Remain Trapped as Harrowing Live-Export Ordeal Continues

“MV Bahijah” is now berthing in Fremantle with sheep and cattle trapped onboard for weeks.

No More Treading Water: Australian Research Council Joins Forced Swim Test Ban

The Australian Research Council has endorsed the NHMRC’s decision to prohibit funding any experiments that use the forced swim test to model human depression in order to study “depression-like …

There’s Nothing Humane About Australia’s Crocodile Welfare Standards

The Australian government is currently reviewing the Code of Practice on the Humane Treatment of Wild and Farmed Australian Crocodiles, which is long overdue an overhaul.

Government Rejects Its Own Inquiry – Duck Hunting in Victoria to Continue

Shame on the Victorian government for ignoring the recommendations of its own inquiry by continuing to support recreational duck hunting.