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Action Against Animal Testing on World Lab
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 9:41 am | Auckland Animal Action
At 12.30pm this afternoon Auckland Animal Action will be protesting outside a prominent central Auckland animal testing laboratory for World Lab Animal Day. The protest is aimed at informing the public about the cruel and unnecessary experiments carried ... More >>
Cruel Work Stories: Police demean animal suffering
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 9:49 am | Auckland Animal Action
Auckland Animal Action questions the appropriateness of police as inspectors under the animal welfare act after reading their most recent E-Beat newsletter. The newsletter details experiences of new police; Februarys update contains a story in which the ... More >>
Cruel Work Stories: Police demean animal suffering
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 8:52 am | Auckland Animal Action
Auckland Animal Action questions the appropriateness of police as inspectors under the animal welfare act after reading their most recent E-Beat newsletter. The newsletter details experiences of new police; Februarys update contains a story in which the ... More >>
New Year Brings Freedom for Suffering Hens
Monday, 7 January 2008, 10:30 am | Auckland Animal Action
On New Years Eve while many were partying Animal Rights Activists were seeing in the New Year by entering a battery hen farm in South Auckland. Thirty hens were rescued from this farm and the conditions documented. More >>
Animal Liberation Front Rescue Ducks
Monday, 19 November 2007, 12:18 am | Auckland Animal Action
Auckland Animal Action has anonymously received footage highlighting the cruel and inhumane conditions that ducks suffer on factory farms and slaughterhouses throughout New Zealand. More >>
Animal Rights Group Calls For End To Shootings
Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 10:09 am | Auckland Animal Action
Whangarei District Council’s inhumane practice of shooting dogs caused a public outcry earlier this year. An estimated 390 dogs are killed in this manner annually. More >>
SPCA Footage confirms animal cruelty
Monday, 12 February 2007, 10:49 am | Auckland Animal Action
The Hon. Jim Anderton as Minister of Agriculture needs to get some balls and do his job. Auckland Animal Action (AAA) is disgusted but not surprised by the appalling conditions discovered on a South Auckland battery hen farm after a raid carried out ... More >>
MAF failed to act on Battery Hen Farm
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 8:34 am | Auckland Animal Action
The Egg Producers Federation (EPF) today said that they knew the Somerdale Poultry Lodge that activists raided on the weekend was operating illegally. Michael Brooks from the EPF said they had laid complaints with MAF Animal Welfare and the New Zealand ... More >>
Activists liberate 35 battery hens from 'hellhole'
Monday, 27 November 2006, 12:53 am | Auckland Animal Action
Animal Rights Activists broke into a Henderson Valley factory farm in the early hours of Sunday the 19th of November. The activists liberated 35 battery hens from what they call a 'hell hole'. The activists anonymously contacted local Animal Rights ... More >>
Still in the dark about animal research!
Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 10:04 am | Auckland Animal Action
Still in the dark about animal research! Auckland Animal Action (AAA) is calling into question the results of the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC) Annual Report (released today) on the numbers of animals used in research, testing ... More >>
NZ: A dumping ground for the cat and dog fur?
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 12:13 am | Auckland Animal Action
Following the recent sale of a rug made from the fur of 16 domestic tabby cats, Auckland Animal Action is calling for the government to ban the importation and sale of cat and dog fur in New Zealand. AAA is also calling for the government to improve labelling ... More >>
Bloodsports target wildlife, women and children
Friday, 5 May 2006, 11:11 am | Auckland Animal Action
On Saturday 6 May, to coincide with the official start of the "game-bird" hunting season, Auckland Animal Action will be staging a dawn protest combined with bird rescue at a popular South Auckland hunting site. More >>
Website Exposing Tegel's Chicken Cruelty Launched
Friday, 30 December 2005, 4:46 pm | Auckland Animal Action
Media Release: Auckland Animal Action Friday December 23rd 2005 Auckland Animal Action Launches Website Exposing Tegel's Chicken Cruelty More >>
Animal cruelty award to Fashion Week Director
Friday, 21 October 2005, 1:45 pm | Auckland Animal Action
This afternoon Auckland Animal Action will present an award for animal cruelty to Pieter Stewart, the Managing Director of Fashion Week. More >>
Campaign against possum fur exhibitions at FW
Wednesday, 19 October 2005, 11:35 am | Auckland Animal Action
Auckland Animal Action will campaign against the Fashion Week event at 12pm today. The protest will focus its attention on possum fur exhibitions inside the event, including Alpine Fur and Poss’m boots. More >>
AAA to campaign against Annah Stretton
Tuesday, 18 October 2005, 10:50 am | Auckland Animal Action
Auckland Animal Action plans to protest Annah Stretton’s use of possum fur during her catwalk at Fashion Week. AAA is opposed to the promotion of possum fur for many animal welfare and conservation reasons More >>
AAA Campaign Against Possum Fur at Fashion Week
Friday, 14 October 2005, 2:25 pm | Auckland Animal Action
Auckland Animal Action is launching their Campaign Against Possum Fur next week with protests at Fashion Week. Protests will target specific designers using possum fur in their range, as well as the Fashion Week event in general for their support of ... More >>
AAA Supports The Liberation Of Six Dogs From Farm
Monday, 29 August 2005, 11:47 am | Auckland Animal Action
Last Tuesday evening the Animal Liberation Front liberated six dogs from Jennersmead farm, owned by Massey University. In an anonymous communiqué sent to Auckland Animal Action, the ALF claim the dogs were confined in tiny barren cages, but are now being ... More >>
Activists Return to Seal Hunt Despite Gun Threats
Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 9:00 am | Auckland Animal Action
Protest against the Canadian commercial seal hunt: the largest mass slaughter of marine animals in the world. More >>
Final Meal for Animal Abusers
Tuesday, 19 November 2002, 10:39 am | Auckland Animal Action
Delegates of the Eighth Pacific Rim Biotechnology Conference will be holding a dinner tonight, November 19, at the Auckland Museum, and animal rights protesters will be present outside, from 7pm, ensuring that it is an incredible unpleasant meal. The ... More >>