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Animals News tagged with new zealand

Jumbo the Elephant Finally Free
Animals  (tags: jumbo, new zealand, circus elephant, retirement, donations, campaign, elephant sanctuary )

Simone
- 3 days ago - tvnz.co.nz
The retirement of circus elephant Jumbo is being hailed as a victory by animal rights group Save Animals From Exploitation (Safe). Jumbo, New Zealand's only African elephant, spent 28 years with the Weber Bros Circus before a decision last week to put
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Big Cats Lose Claws
Animals  (tags: lion man, new zealand, lions, tiger, declawed, mutilation, cruelty )

Simone
- 29 days ago - stuff.co.nz
Big cats featured on The Lion Man hit TV show are suffering after having their paws 'mutilated' so they could perform with their handlers, says the wildlife park troubleshooter now overseeing the animals' welfare. Some 29 of the 37 lions and tigers
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SPCA Outraged at Dog Deaths
Animals  (tags: spca, new zealand, outrage, puppies, killed, innocent victims, breed, rottweiler, crosses, prejudice )

Simone
- 99 days ago - stuff.co.nz
The SPCA is appalled the Invercargill City Council killed six "harmless" rottweiler puppies yesterday because of their breed, while the dogs' aggressive mother was returned to its owners for a fee.
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Misleading Elephant Welfare Campaign Was 'Justified'
Animals  (tags: elephant exploitation, circus elephant, new zealand, animal organistaion, freedom, sanctuary )

Simone
- 110 days ago - stuff.co.nz
An animal welfare organisation is unrepentant for its advertising campaign aimed at getting Jumbo the elephant out of the circus, which the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) deemed misleading. "We feel absolutely justified in what we did and
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Battle to Protect New Zealand's Native Birds Continues
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, New Zealand, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 142 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
It was the concern of their customers over the absence of native birds and a desire to look after the special environment they live and work in that prompted Nigel and Paula Lamb of Fiordland Explorer Charters to establish a pest control programme in
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New Population of Endangered Shore Plover Created Off the West Coast of New Zealand
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, New Zealand, new population, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 161 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A grant from the BirdLife International Community Conservation Fund is helping establish a new population of Endangered Shore Plover on Mana Island, off the west coast of Wellington, New Zealand.
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Government and Industry Officials Scramble to Defend Exposed Pig Farm Cruelty
Animals  (tags: new zealand, investigation, horriifc pig cruelty, suffering, sow stalls, prisons, officials, goverment, factory farming )

Simone
- 170 days ago - examiner.com
In a stunning admission, Dr. Peter O'Hara of New Zealand's National Animal Welfare Committee, which advises agriculture minister David Carter on proper animal care procedures, publicly stated that he finds acceptable the filthy, cramped crates that pigs
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Bumblebees Extinct in the UK to Be Reintroduced From Surviving Stock in New Zealand
Animals  (tags: bumblebees, extinction, breeding, stock, new zealand, survival, conservation )

Simone
- 176 days ago - treehugger.com
After being last seen in the south of England in 1998, and declared extinct in 2000, the short-haired bumblebee (Bombus subterraneus) is going to be reintroduced, from stocks reimported from New Zealand. The project hopes to see the first bees released
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Oil Hunters Started Decimating Whale Populations as Early as 1800
Animals  (tags: animals, whales, oil, hunters, environment, endangered, extinction, humans, orcas, blue, sharks, thresher, porpoise, dolphin, new zealand, england, ocean, sea, fishing, science, investigation, research, study, discovery )

Tom
- 184 days ago - thaindian.com
One of several astonishing reconstructions of ocean life in olden days suggests that the ocean around New Zealand teemed with about 27,000 southern right whales, about 30 times as many as today, before oil hunters started to whaling in the early 1800s.
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PLEASE TAKE ACTION: Act Now to Protect Sheep From Mass Cruelty! Stop Sheep From Being Exported!
Animals  (tags: sheep suffering, live sheep exports, new zealand, sheep tortured, abused, inhumanely killed )

Simone
- 195 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Five years ago after a tragic accident involving the death of five thousand sheep on a transport ship, the government of New Zealand made the humane decision to stop the long distance transport of sheep - But now that decision is in danger of being
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Plans to Resume New Zealand's Cruel Live Sheep Trade
Animals  (tags: animals, sheep, ban, trade, New Zealand, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, AnimalCruelty )

Cher
- 206 days ago - wspa.ca
Negotiations to resume New Zealand's live sheep trade with Saudi Arabia are underway following a ban on live exports for more than five years.
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Act Now to Protect Sheep From Cruelty ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, exports, New Zealand, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, protection )

Cher
- 206 days ago - e-activist.com
Five years after ceasing live animal exports - during which sheep suffer from hunger, stress, disease and often death - the New Zealand government is considering resuming the live trade to Saudi Arabia. It's a deadly journey that lasts more than 20 days.
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Diving Dolphins Delight Off New Zealand's Kaikoura Coast - New Zealand
Animals  (tags: new zealand, nz, dolphin, dolphins, swimming, ocean, diving )

Chrissy
- 215 days ago - news.com.au
DARK fins were slicing the calm blue waters towards the swimmers in their black wetsuits and snorkels. But it didn't faze the group who were making odd squeals as they tried to attract the wild dolphins who live off the beautiful Kaikoura coast in NZ
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Save the Maui's Dolphin ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: maui's dolphin, animals, New Zealand, AnimalWelfare, environment, extinction, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 243 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Help stop the extinction of the Maui's Dolphin! The smallest dolphin in the world, Maui's are only found on the east coast of New Zealand. They are classified as critically endangered, and there are only 111 surviving today!
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First Recorded Wild Baby Tuatara on Mainland New Zealand in at Least 200 Years
Animals  (tags: tuatara, baby, wild animals, New Zealand, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 250 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Conservation staff at Wellington's world-first conservation attraction, Zealandia, have found what is almost certainly the first confirmed baby tuatara to have hatched in the wild on mainland New Zealand in more than 200 years.
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