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End Live Export
This week, people from around the world are joining together to tell the Australian Government that the live export trade is cruel and should no longer be tolerated.
Australia is the largest exporter of animals for slaughter in the world, and each year millions of Australian sheep are loaded onto ships and transported long distances to ports in the Middle East, simply to be slaughtered at the journey's end.
Wimbledon 'breaking law by killing pigeons'
There were ruffled feathers and no small amount of flapping at the world's most genteel tennis tournament yesterday after a threat of legal action from animal rights lobbyists over the culling of pigeons that had the temerity to bother some players.
As The Independent revealed on Monday, marksmen armed with rifles and employed by The All England Club spent part of Sunday evening stalking the grounds. Several birds were killed. Wimbledon usually uses a hawk to scare away the troublesome creatures. But some players had complained that they were being dive-bombed and rapid action was deemed necessary before the gates opened to the public.
Shot duck gets court protection order
A COURT has issued a protection order for a duck after it was shot by a neighbour.
Ylik Mathews, 21, pleaded guilty to shooting the yellow-billed Pekin duck - named Circles - in the neck on March 17 in Long Island, near New York in the US, newsagency AP reported.
Circles survived the attack and is expected to recover fully from gun pellet wounds to the throat.
Mark G. Kirshner, the lawyer for Mathews, said his client is "happy the duck is doing well" because the attack was an accident.
Bail for man accused of toddler dog attack
A SYDNEY man charged with causing two bull terriers to maul a toddler remains on bail but has been ordered not to approach the boy or the boy's mother.
Police said the one-year-old was attacked by two Staffordshire bull terriers at a home in Hobartville, in Sydney's west, about 1.15am (AEST) on Saturday.
He was initially taken to a home in Cranebrook before ambulance officers arrived and transported him to Westmead Childrens Hospital. The toddler arrived in a serious but stable condition, with head, chest and leg injuries.
A croc walks into a Territory bar ...
It's not every day a croc wanders into a pub.
But for regulars at the Noonamah Tavern, on a dusty stretch of outback highway, it's all in a day's drinking.
Buffaloes, horses, frogs and even cane toads have propped up the bar at the Northern Territory watering hole.
But a 60cm saltwater crocodile, found outside the front of the pub on Sunday night, might be their strangest drinking-buddy yet.
"You could say we were a bit surprised,'' said barmaid Sarah Sparre.
Australia wool industry moves to counter boycotts
Australian sheep farmers will from July 1 separate out wool at auctions that has been produced without using "mulesing", which is condemned by animal rights activists and has led to boycotts from major fashion houses.
The practice of cutting the skin from the hindquarters of sheep to prevent fly larvae from feeding on the tissue has been in use since the 1920s, but in 2004 Abercrombie & Fitch banned use of such wool in its garments.
Cruel puppy-farmer to pay $90,000
A 65-year-old Queensland puppy farmer has been fined and ordered to pay more than $86,000 in compensation for failing to properly look after 67 chihuahuas and chihuahua-crosses.
Patrick Doran from Kalbar, south of Brisbane, was found guilty of acts of animal cruelty, including failing to provide adequate food and water, accommodation and necessary veterinary treatment to the dogs.
Queensland's Maryborough Magistrates Court fined him $4000, and ordered he pay the RSPCA $86,792 in compensation.
Adidas joins mulesing ban
IN another blow to Australian wool farmers, global sportswear giant Adidas is the latest major company to ban wool sourced from mulesed sheep.
The ban is a victory for the US-based animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Adidas' decision is also a blow to federal Agriculture Minister Tony Burke, who recently wrote to Adidas and other leading retailers thanking them for supporting Australian wool.
KFC Canada backs controlled-atmosphere slaughter
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has pledged to end its boycott of KFC Canada, after the chicken chain agreed to a new animal welfare plan including support for controlled-atmosphere slaughter.
The Norfolk, Virginia-based advocacy group, operators of the "Kentucky Fried Cruelty" campaign, said KFC Canada has pledged to phase in a plan that would eventually see all the company's chicken purchased from suppliers who use "controlled-atmosphere" slaughter.
Polar bear swims 300km, police shoot it
GRAPHIC footage of the first polar bear seen in Iceland in 20 years being shot dead by police has been posted on the internet.
The bear, an adult male weighing around 250kg, was presumed to have swum some 300km from Greenland or from a distant chunk of Arctic ice to Skagafjordur in northern Iceland.
It was planned to sedate the animal and move it back to Greenland but the police decided it was safest to kill the bear immediately.