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Article submitted by admin on 08/09/11
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The release of chimps being held in an Austrian lab for animal testing has become a viral hit across social media networks. The chimps were reportedly held in the dark for almost 30 years before being released on the back of a 14-year campaign by animal rights groups.
The Daily Mail says testing ended on the apes in 1997, when the pharmaceutical company behind the research was sold and the chimpanzees were moved to a farm. But the task of readjusting to the outside world has had to be carefully managed in order for the chimps to survive.
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Article submitted by admin on 08/09/11
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Images of emaciated, decomposing dog carcasses, some in feces-covered cages, provided a gruesome start Wednesday to the trial of Diane Eldrup on animal cruelty and torture charges.
Eldrup, 48, who operated Muddy Paws Animal Rescue in Deer Park, was arrested Dec. 16 amid the discovery of dozens of dead animals on the squalid premises.
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Article submitted by admin on 05/09/11
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THE owner of a dog stabbed to death during a violent neighbourhood dispute on Friday afternoon has paid tribute to an animal he credits with saving his life.
Leichhardt resident Adam Turnbull said his family was recovering after losing their beloved rottweiler-labrador cross Dash.
The six-year-old dog was fatally knifed several times during the dispute after reportedly going to the aid of his master in Dampier St, about 4pm on Friday.
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Article submitted by admin on 05/09/11
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Meat and Livestock Australia has pulled out of the first memorial Robert Dixon animal welfare symposium, concerned about a revised topic for discussion. Thursday's symposium, organised by the University of Sydney, is now titled "Should Australia export live animals for slaughter?".
Meat and Livestock Australia was originally set to attend, but the forum's subject was changed after concerns expressed by an animal welfare group. The RSPCA was concerned about the symposium's original title, "Ensuring the welfare of exported beef cattle".
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Article submitted by mikey on 14/06/11
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THE animal welfare group, PETA, has offered to pay the cost of installing web cameras in all foreign abattoirs receiving live animals from Australia to ensure they are treated properly.
In a letter sent to Prime Minister Julia Gillard, PETA warns that the abuse of cattle in abattoirs in Indonesia that prompted an export ban last week was also common in other countries that took live animal exports from Australia.
While congratulating Ms Gillard for suspending live cattle exports to Indonesia, PETA Australia campaign director Jason Baker said additional steps were needed to ensure the welfare of livestock, warning that "the Indonesian abuses are not unique".
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Article submitted by admin on 04/05/11
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Are you the "owner" of a dog or cat? Maybe you should consider yourself a "human caregiver" instead. And Fido and Fluffy? Perhaps they should be "companion animals," not just "pets."
Such vocabulary shifts will help elevate the discourse about other species and, in turn, improve our treatment of them, according to the new Journal on Animal Ethics.
The foreword in the peer-reviewed academic publication, which was first published last month, even suggests getting rid of terms like "critters," "beasts" and "wild animals," along with phrases such as "drunk as a skunk" and "eat like a pig."
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Article submitted by admin on 04/05/11
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More than 20 animal rights activists are sitting on the roof of an egg farm on the Mornington Peninsula this morning to protest against what they say are appalling conditions within the facility.
Police have been called to the Somerville Egg Farm after 22 protesters from Animal Liberation Victoria scaled the walls at 4am today.
Speaking from the top of the shed this morning, Animal Liberation Victoria president Patty Mark said the group - dressed in biohazard suits - had taken supplies with them and were prepared to remain there "for as long as it takes" until an investigation is launched into the condition of the chickens.
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Article submitted by admin on 02/04/11
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Hungry, hurt and separated from owners who are either dead or in evacuation centres, hundreds of family pets are struggling to survive in the desolation of Japan's tsunami-ravaged north-east coast.
Among the many rescue teams sent from around the world to search for survivors and bodies after Japan's worst natural disaster for nearly a century, a handful of specialised animal rescue groups have also been at work.
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Article submitted by admin on 02/04/11
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Animal rights protesters are carrying out their annual stand against the killing of short tailed shearwaters.
The recreational harvesting season for shearwaters, also known as mutton birds, runs from today until the 17th. Against Animal Cruelty protesters handed out leaflets at the Spirit of Tasmania ferry terminal in Devonport this morning.
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Article submitted by admin on 25/03/11
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CITY of Bayswater residents have urged Bayswater council to block the culling of corellas in Maylands.
The council last month rejected a Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) application to shoot the birds as they flew in to roost at Maylands Foreshore Re-serve.
Councillors requested the DEC use alternative control measures, saying shooting was inappropriate in an urban setting.
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