Animal rights
Saving cats and dogs: Pet rescuers do it fur the love
A network of volunteers who rescue stray cats and dogs in northern Victoria and bring them to Melbourne for adoption say they are saving more than 3500 animals a year.
- by Carolyn Webb
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Happy, the elephant, isn’t a person, a top New York court rules
New York’s highest court has ruled that Happy the elephant is not a person, in a legal sense, and therefore not entitled to a fundamental human right.
- by Ed Shanahan
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Ukraine
The lions Australians helped whisk out of Ukraine
The owner of the zoo became worried he would run out of food to feed the lions. He wanted to evacuate the animals but was told it would cost nearly $14,000.
- by Latika Bourke
Is Happy the elephant legally a person? A court will decide
The Nonhuman Rights Project attorneys contend that she is so autonomous and intelligent that she has a right to bodily liberty.
- by Marisa Iati
Councils say ‘weak laws’ make NSW a haven for substandard puppy farms
Public hearings commence on Thursday as part of a parliamentary inquiry into pet farming in NSW.
- by Michael Koziol
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Live exports
Ban on shipping live exports in summer months set to be relaxed
The live export industry is on course to resume shipments of sheep to the Middle East during some of the northern summer.
- by Latika Bourke
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Pets
Dog fight: The battle over a bill to stamp out intensive puppy mills
A bill to ban intensive puppy farming in NSW has hit fierce opposition from the state’s peak body for dog breeders, which says the rules are “heavy-handed” and would hurt responsible breeders.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘Smart patrols’: The new hope for Malaysia’s last tigers
Intensive poaching has slashed Malaysia’s tiger population to near extinction. Can a new program that uses locals as wildlife patrollers save them?
- by Chris Barrett
Fearful swans abandon their nests at start of duck-shooting season
Black swans have flown off, leaving their eggs behind, after being scared away by the sound of gunfire on the opening day of Victoria’s duck-hunting season.
- by Miki Perkins and Rachel Eddie
Dr Jane Goodall: ‘Growing up girls didn’t do the things I wanted to do’
When the 87-year-old primatologist first went to Africa in 1960, the idea of a young girl working in the forest was deemed so ‘ridiculous’ by British authorities that her mother had to accompany her.
- by Jane Rocca
‘A ticking time bomb’: how breeding for cuteness is hurting dogs
As puppy sales boom during the pandemic, pet owners, vets and animal welfare organisations are calling for a crack down on the selective breeding of dogs for cuteness, a practice that causes defects, pain and suffering.
- by Henrietta Cook