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ACTION ALERT: Help Stop Horse Abuse at Laverton Knackery! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: australian, thoroughbreds, racehorses, abused, beaten, suffering, laws, welfare, knackery )

Simone
- 157 days ago - animalsaustralia.org
Unwanted horses are being beaten, neglected and savagely slaughtered at a Victorian knackery that kills horses for pet food. An undercover investigation by Animals Australia member society -- the Coalition for Protection of Racehorses
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PETITION ALERT: Australia Wants Puppy Farms Closed ! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: australian, government puppy farms, deplorable conditions, dogs, mistreated, imprisoned, neglected )

Simone
- 677 days ago - petitionbuzz.com
Every minute of every hour there are dogs all over Australia that a kept in small cages. These Dogs on puppy farms are little more than breeding machines used to make their owners money. Mothers may be continually mated and kept with their puppies in
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ACTION ALERT: SAVE TOWNSVILLE'S DOLPHINS! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: marine life, oceans, australian, dolphins, snub nose dolphins, threatened, construction, townsville )

Simone
- 703 days ago - marinewildlife.org.au
Habitat loss and degradation from unsustainable coastal development is a serious threat facing Townsville's marine wildlife including the newly discovered rare and native dolphin, the Australian snubfin and the rare Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, dugongs
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ACTION ALERT: AUSTRALIAN DAIRY FARMER ON TRIAL FOR HORRIFIC ABUSE TOWARDS CATTLE AND CALVES ! PLEASE SIGN PETITION !
Animals  (tags: sadistic scum, dairy farmer, australian, roderick neil mitchell, cows, calves, tortured, abused, crushed, court trial, punishment )

Simone
- 931 days ago - animals.change.org
CATTLE & CALVES STARVED AND CRUSHED TO DEATH! AUSTRALIAN DAIRY FARMER, RODERICK NEIL MITCHELL HAS THE BLOOD OF 300-400 ANIMALS ON HIS HANDS. HIS CRIMES DATE BACK TO 2007
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Wombat Bites Australian Bush Fire Survivor
Animals  (tags: Wombat, Australian, hospital )

Nancy
- 1139 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A man who survived last year's deadly bush fires in Australia is recovering in hospital after falling victim to a rare attack by a wombat.
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ACTION ALERT: Help Stop Inhumane Dog Traps!!!
Animals  (tags: victorian government, australian, inhumane dog traps, leg hold traps, native animals, suffering, cruelty )

Simone
- 1253 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In Victoria, Australia 720 (wild dog) traps are set each day by the government. The government use a leg hold trap. Leg hold traps are banned in 80 countries, including Britian because they are considered inhumane. When a dog accidently walks into the
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Aim to Breed Sheep That Burp Less
Animals  (tags: Sheep, Australian, Scientists )

Nancy
- 1258 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Australian scientists say they're hoping to breed sheep that burp less as part of their latest efforts to tackle climate change.
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Tough on Old Pals When Love Turns Into Pet Hate
Animals  (tags: pets, animals, animal welfare, protection, australian, homeless animals, betrayal, humans )

Simone
- 1502 days ago - smh.com.au
If it is true the highest test of a civilisation is the way it cares for its most vulnerable, then Australia's animal welfare record is a sad indictment. Every year tens of thousands of pets are abandoned by their owners and left to die in animal
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Australian Wildlife Conservancy in Huge Land Buyout - Australia
Animals  (tags: australia, australian, wildlife conservancy, conservation, wildlife, property, cape york, queensland, south australia, plants, animals, environment )

Chrissy
- 1645 days ago - news.com.au
AN environment group has made what is thought to be the largest private conservation buyout of land in Australia, if not the world. The Australian Wildlife Conservancy has bought two huge cattle stations totalling more than 837,000ha.
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Thousands of Australia's Koalas Felled By Land-Clearing: WWF
Animals  (tags: Australian, koalas, birds, reptiles, in danger, tree felling, environment, endangered, habitat, suffering )

Kathy
- 1715 days ago - afp.google.com
Australian koalas are dying by the thousands as a result of land clearing in the country's northeast, while millions of birds and reptiles are also perishing, conservation group WWF said Sunday.
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Whalers 'Acting Like Al-Qaeda'
Animals  (tags: whales, slaughter, japan, hostages on ship, australian, briton, refused to release )

Ali
- 1950 days ago - news.com.au
THE captain of the Sea Shepherd's Steve Irwin says Japanese whalers continuing to detain two activists on a ship in the Southern Ocean were acting 'more like al-Qaeda' than scientific researchers.
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Aussie Pursuing Moa in New Zealand - New Zealand
Animals  (tags: extinct, moa, new zealand, nz, australian, hunt )

Chrissy
- 1959 days ago - news.brisbanetimes.com.au
An Australian is adamant the moa is alive and well in remote North Island bush and aims to prove it with photographic evidence next month. New South Wales natural science researcher Rex Gilroy says he's closing in on the colony of the presumed-extinct lit
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