HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL reports that while a review of New South Wales’ suite of animal welfare laws is underway, a notable exclusion is the concept of animal sentience. This has animal welfare advocates concerned that NSW is lagging behind other states — and the world — when it comes to protecting
Animal Welfare
Queanbeyan wild birds, rescue and release
Transparency in factory farming: challenge to ‘ag gag’ laws goes to High Court
The Farm Transparency Project, with local non-profit legal help, has filed a case with the Australian High Court to regain and improve public oversight in regard to animals used for food production — countering NSW laws that have attempted to criminalise evidence gathering of cruel practices in factory farming situations. Here is the
Country people: shut down bird shoot
Calls for immediate shut down of bird shoot due to “uncontrollable” lawlessness and health risks NOT EVEN A week since Victoria’s recreational bird shoot started and not even covid restrictions have prevented lawlessness and cruelty. Shocking pictures on social media show the proximity of men in army fatigues with guns near built-up
10 million animals are hit on our roads each year
Commonwealth protects Platypus, Koala, Swift Parrot, Greater Glider habitat
HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI) has congratulated the federal government for a positive move this Christmas season as Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley announced new habitat protections. The listing of River-flat eucalypt forest on coastal floodplains of southern New South Wales and eastern Victoria as a Critically Endangered Ecological Community sees more than 20,000 highly
Baby bird season — Wildcare Queanbeyan seeking volunteers
Koalas over Barilaro any day
NSW PREMIER GLADYS Berejiklian will stand her ground and refuse the Nationals’ demands for an urgent cabinet meeting to debate planning policy relating to koalas. Her stance is likely to infuriate the junior Coalition partner, which has threatened to boycott a joint party room meeting next week ahead of a parliamentary
Volunteers keep wildlife alive for months post fire
COVID-19 HAS CLOGGED the news and taken up just about all our interest and thoughts over the last several months. However, for many volunteers their work and minds are still heavily focused on help and care for wildlife since the ‘Black Summer’ fires (seen above). The effort by volunteer groups goes
Lethal management: 1080 poison — why do they use it and blur its horrendous impacts?
THIS YEAR 2020, the NSW government is undertaking a wide-ranging killing program that it is proud to call the “largest feral animal control program in the state’s history” following the 2019–2020 bushfires. This involves dropping poison baits disguised as food for hungry mammalian animals into 60,000 kilometres of the state’s