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The decision to phase out elephants from Ringling Brothers Circus reflects a shift in public opinion regarding captive wild animals.
Animal welfare and environmental sustainability are important ethical issues but Australian supermarkets don’t do much about them. Germany’s Aldi Süd chain could teach them a thing or two.
Revelations of live baiting in greyhound racing have sent shockwaves through the industry. Baiting is prohibited, but laws lack teeth to stamp out the practice.
Labour has pledged a new series of animal protection and welfare reforms, but needs to commit on resources.
Australia’s greyhound industry is reeling from the ABC’s Four Corners expose, featuring graphic footage of racing dogs tearing other mammals apart in the illegal training practice of live baiting. The…
The dairy sector in the UK is going through a period of high uncertainty. Not only are suppliers having to cope with retail price wars and the fact that milk prices are being reduced by the increasing…
The number of animals exported live out of Australia is set to increase as Australia prepares to enter into a A$1 billion trade agreement with China. Agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce has claimed up to…
Beating and overriding a horse is deemed cruel under Victoria’s Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986. You would never guess that from a day at the races, including Melbourne’s Spring Racing Carnival…
Ever had one too many at the zoo and thrown your beer at a tiger, or stripped off and attempted to jump into the penguin pool? I’d hope not, but these are just two examples of inappropriate behaviour by…
Julian Burnside and Daniel Reynolds wrote recently for The Conversation that: … animals do have greater rights than asylum seekers in Australia. In fact, Australian law requires that animals be treated…
An online video apparently showing a French tourist kicking a squirrel off a cliff in Grand Canyon National Park was greeted with horror and incredulity after being posted (and since removed) on YouTube…
You might have noticed recently that a plague of “selfies” with tigers appears to have overtaken mobile dating app Tinder (where users “swipe right” to indicate interest; left to reject). Globally, so…
While Brazil’s footballers have failed spectacularly to live up to expectations, there are other areas where the country is quietly exceeding them. Perhaps surprisingly, Brazil’s rapidly improving animal…
A Japanese jeans maker has found a new way of capitalising on zoo animals. Zoo Jeans are producing jeans “designed by dangerous animals”. Denim is wrapped around tyres, which are then thrown to the lions…
It may come as a surprise to discover that it is perfectly legal in the UK to keep primates, such as marmosets, loris, capuchins or squirrel monkeys, as pets. Perhaps more surprising still is that there…
Australia looks set to resume exporting live sheep to Iran, after Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce this week flagged the end of a 40-year ban following Iran’s Islamic revolution. Flanked by the chief…
More than 20 years ago, the university department where I was doing my PhD was fire bombed by animal rights activists. At the time, I was conducting research into animal welfare, as were many of the staff…
Everyone loves to get close to a koala. They are an Australian icon and a major ecotourism attraction. A photo with a koala is a holiday must for many overseas visitors. But how well do these celebrity…
Close human interaction can be distressing for koalas, a University of Melbourne study has found. During intimate, noisy…
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Former Foundation Professor of Animal Welfare, University of Queensland, Curtin University
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Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare, University of New England
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Management and Organizational Studies, Huron University College, Western University
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Salford
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate, Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Associate, Sydney School of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney School of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney
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Post Doctoral Fellow-School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University
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PhD Candidate, Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University
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The University of Melbourne
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Historian, The University of Melbourne
