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Animals News tagged with australian government

The Koala Wars
Animals  (tags: koalas, endangered, politics, australian government, protection, disappearing )

Simone
- 5 days ago - guardian.co.uk
When south-eastern Australia was consumed by bushfires in February, one image shut out all others. Nearly 200 humans might have perished, but a koala had been saved: videoed in a blackened landscape imbibing thirstily from the water bottle of a volunteer
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ACTION ALERT: Help End the Hideously Cruel Live Export Industry!!!
Animals  (tags: australian government, horrific suffering, cruelty, live animal exports, savagely mistreated, killed )

Simone
- 17 days ago - action.peta.org.uk
Every year, millions of Australian sheep are crammed onto multilevel, open-decked ships bound for ports in the Middle East and North Africa. When they arrive, they are dragged to shore as if they were sacks of coal, and their throats are cut while they
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Australia Considers Mass Killings of Camels
Animals  (tags: camels, australian government, animal killers, gunnned down, massacred, cruelty )

Simone
- 109 days ago - google.com
Thousands of camels in Australia's remote Outback could be killed by marksmen in helicopters under a government proposal aimed at cutting down the population of the havoc-wreaking creatures. First introduced into Australia in the 1840s to help
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ACTION ALERT: Urge the Government, Protect Roos Instead of Encouraging Australians to EAT Them !
Animals  (tags: australian government, kangaroos, protection, conservation )

Simone
- 113 days ago - serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com
Queensland kangaroos are under threat from a state government plan to encourage Australians to eat our national icon. Please join me in voting against this cruel and unsustainable plan!
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ACTION ALERT: Please Sign To Stop the Senseless Killing of Kangaroo's In Australia!
Animals  (tags: australian government, authorities, kangaroos, butchered, slaughters, joeys orphaned, cruelty, wildlife )

Simone
- 157 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Each night in remote areas of the Australian outback thousands of kangaroos graze peacefully, stand up on hearing an approaching vehicle, stare into a blinding spotlight, and are shot for their meat and skins. The commercial kangaroo kill 'quota' for
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ACTION ALERT: Save the Kangaroos- Stop the Killing!!!!
Animals  (tags: kangaroos, butchered, slaughtered, australian government, authoriites )

Simone
- 157 days ago - savethekangaroo.com
The horrific butchery and slaughter of Kangaroos is beginning again. Please help stop this.
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PLEASE TAKE ACTION: SAVE THE KANGAROOS IN CANBERRA!!!
Animals  (tags: canberra, australia, military defence, slaughtering kangaroos, joeys orphaned, killed, beaten, officials, cruelty, australian government )

Simone
- 173 days ago - oipa.org
In May 2009, the Department of Defense began to gun down 7,000 kangaroos on its vast Majura military base in Canberra. These animals came under attack when military officials said that they were destroying the land near the Majura and also that they
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TAKE ACTION: 'Shot in the Dark" Stop Australia's Kangaroo Massacre!!!
Animals  (tags: australian government, defence force, kangaroos slaughtered, massacre, disgrace, wildife )

Simone
- 194 days ago - kinshipcircle.wordpress.com
Australia's assault on its national icon is disgraceful. In May 2009, the Department of Defense began to gun down 7,000 kangaroos on its vast Majura military base in Canberra, ACT. By 5/14/09, with 3500 already dead, a court-issued injunction temporary
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PLEASE TAKE ACTION: Help Stop The Commercial and Non-Commercial Killing of Kangaroos!!!
Animals  (tags: kangaroos, brually killed, native australian wildlife, australian government )

Simone
- 208 days ago - animalrights.change.org
The Commercial and Non-commercial Killing of Kangaroos Send this letter to: The Federal Minister for Environment; the Premier of each State; the Minister for Environment in each State and the Departments responsible for wild animals in all
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Shoot To Cull: Australia Plots Kangaroo Kills
Animals  (tags: kangaroos, australian government, culled, killed, australian native icon, cruelty, wildlife, protection )

Simone
- 227 days ago - news.sky.com
Authorities in Australia's capital city have been driven hopping mad by a glut of kangaroos and are ready to take drastic action, The public has until May 11 to make its views known. A decision will then be made, and a quota set.
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PLZ SIGN; STOP Kevin Rudd's Secret Plan to Increase WHALING!!!
Animals  (tags: rudd government, whaling, whales slaughtered massacred, australian government, bonding japanese whale killers, legislation, marine wildlife, cruelty, suffering, destruction, extinction )

Simone
- 304 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Rudd Government has today been exposed as being involved in a secret plan to give Japan the green light to carry out more whaling. The Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Water, Greg Hunt, said the Government had been caught
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Save The Belconnen Kangaroos! - PETITION
Animals  (tags: kangaroo massacre, slaughter, defence department, australian government, no protection, kangaroo killers )

Simone
- 626 days ago - gopetition.com.au
In May 2007 the media exposed a secret plan by the Department of Defence, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government and RSPCA ACT to shoot to kill up to 3,200 Kangaroos at two Defence sites in the ACT. The reasons given at the time: to
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Take Action: Stop The Journey of Cruelty
Animals  (tags: live animal exports, journey of hell, animal cruelty, animal abuse, suffering, fear, pain, australian government, animal advocates, sheep, cattle )

Simone
- 655 days ago - handlewithcare.org.au
Raised on a large, remote farm, this sheep has enjoyed space to roam and very little human contact. But all this is about to change. Because this sheep is one of millions of Australian farm animals about to suffer a fate far worse than death. He's
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Australia as World Leader in Live Export Cruelty
Animals  (tags: live animal exports, barbaric animal cruelty, animals abused, beaten, stabbed, tortured, australian government )

Simone
- 655 days ago - wspa.org.au
A new report, Beyond Cruelty. Beyond Reason. Long Distance Transport and Welfare of Farm Animals (2008), highlights Australia as a world leader in the cruel live export trade of animals for slaughter. The report into the worldwide long distance
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Releasing Whaling Images 'the Right Decision'
Animals  (tags: kevin rudd, australian government, whale slaughter, massacre, images, cruelty )

Simone
- 656 days ago - bigpond.com
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is standing by his Government's decision to release graphic pictures of Japan's whale hunt. The Japanese Government has taken issue over the images and is expected to lodge a formal diplomatic protest. Mr Rudd has told
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